This week's highlights
ELIXIR training team builds closer bioinformatics links with Brazil
In June 2023, members of ELIXIR Portugal and ELIXIR Switzerland visited Curitiba, Brazil, to collaborate on training in data management and FAIR data with Brazilian research and innovation organisations.
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Call for two new members of the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee
The ELIXIR Board is inviting candidates from life science companies to join the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee (IAC).
Taking into consideration the current distribution of expertise within the committee, applications are particularly encouraged from experts in the fields of plant and crop, food and nutrition sciences, as well as scientific publishing and AI, machine learning in life sciences.
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ELIXIR Communication Group meeting - Twitter/X, where next?
Monday 18 September | 14-15 CET | remote
Come and share how your Node is tackling the Twitter/X dilemma and discuss potential ways forward. All welcome.
Zoom link and more details on rolling agenda (no registration necessary).
Recommended reads
The What & How in data management: Improving connectivity between RDMkit and FAIR Cookbook
A BioHackathon Europe pre-print
This report describes the work completed during the ELIXIR Biohackathon 2022 for project 31: The What & How in data management: Improving connectivity between RDMkit and FAIR Cookbook. The project covered 3 subjects: the technical connectivity between the two primary resources, an editorial alignment and gap analysis of their content, and the creation of user journeys incorporating the wider ELIXIR Research Data Management (RDM) ecosystem.
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Features of a FAIR vocabulary
A FAIRplus, EOSC-Life and EMBL-EBI paper
The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Principles explicitly require the use of FAIR vocabularies, but what precisely constitutes a FAIR vocabulary remains unclear. Our work proposes features of FAIR vocabularies and corresponding indicators for assessing the FAIR levels of different types of vocabularies, identifies use cases for vocabulary engineers, and guides the evolution of vocabularies.
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Updates from Nodes
Registration open for BioHackathon Germany 2023
December 11-15 |Bielefeld, Germany
A total of 11 exciting projects are waiting for you! Be part of it!
Register
Updates from Plaforms
Introduction to Containers and Snakemake for Reproducible Research
12-13 October 2023 | Davos, Switzerland
Still a few seats left for this SIB course.
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Updates from other initiatives
New RDA working group on FAIRification of genome sequence annotations (tracks)
Two kick-off meetings: 12 & 25 September 2023
RDA TIGER and FAIRtracks are mobilising the wealth and variety of genome sequence mapped data through consolidated metadata and connected services.
Initiatives and individuals working across biomedical and biodiversity domains are invited to an open exchange of ideas to launch a new working group in the Research Data Alliance (RDA).
Find out more and register now
EMBO workshop | Computational models of life: From molecular biology to digital twins
26 November-1 December 2023 | Sant Feliu de Guxols, Spain
Deadline for submitting a 350 word abstract on current work and a CV: now extended to 18 September 2023
A five-day in-person workshop for early career researchers and field leaders at the crossroads of single-cell omics, modelling and HPC to pave the way for realistic, scalable human digital twins of cells, tissues and organs. Travel and childcare grants are available.
Educational toolkit on FAIR data
The BY-COVID project has produced an educational toolkit to inspire conversations with students around using FAIR data in public health.
The kit is suitable for science/philosophy/ethics teachers or educational organisations (student ages approx 14-19+).
English | French | Dutch | Czech | Spanish
Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars
ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. For more, visit TeSS portal
SIB course: First Steps with Python in Life Sciences
27 - 29 September 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
9 - 10 October 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Containers and Snakemake for Reproducible Research
12 - 13 October 2023 | Davos, Switzerland
SIB course: First Steps with R in Life Sciences
19 - 20 October 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI: Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation
12 - 16 February 2024 | Online
EMBL-EBI: Exploring gene and environmental exposure interactions to understand human health and disease
19 - 23 February 2024 | EMBL-EBI, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Toxicology Community meeting
20 September 2023 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
Galaxy Community meeting
4-6 October 2023 | Hybrid - Freiburg, Germany
BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain
3D BioInfo Community meeting
15-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic
Federated human data (FHD) Community meeting
16-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Job vacancies
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job
Junior Research Engineer (RE1)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES
Web Front-end Developer (RE2)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES
Senior Research Engineer on Research Infrastructures for Precision Medicine projects (RE3)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES
PhD student in computational analysis of health trajectories (R1)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
System Developer
University of Bergen