Weekly Brief, 9 January 2023

This week's highlights

New staff joins the Hub

Kelly Tunstall joined ELIXIR last week as Commission Services Portfolio Manager in the Project Managment Team.

ELIXIR Tech Team webinars series

The new webinar series will present the ELIXIR Technical Team, introduce people who are involved with each Platform, and set out the activities under the current Scientific Programme, and the new 2024 Programme.

The webinar will be held monthly starting on 19 January 2023. The first webinar will focus on an overview of ELIXIR Technical Team.

More information and registration

Using global frameworks to assess the performance and impact of local research infrastructures

The F1000 blog post written by Ana Portugal Melo, Deputy Head of Node of ELIXIR Portugal, discusses how existing frameworks for public-funded European RI activities helped inform the process of performance and impact assessment of BioData.pt.

Read the article

New job vacancies in the Hub

Application deadline: 31 January 2023

ELIXIR Senior Science Officer - Biodiversity
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Programme Manager: ELIXIR Human Genomics and Translational Data
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Recommended reads

Trecode: A FAIR Eco-System for the Analysis and Archiving of Omics Data in a Combined Diagnostic and Research Setting

An ELIXIR-NL paper

The increase of high-throughput sequencing has led to the widespread clinical application of genome (WGS), exome (WXS), and transcriptome analysis. WXS and RNA sequencing is now being implemented as the standard of care for patients and for patients included in clinical studies. The authors present Trecode, a framework that records both clinical and research sample data and manages computational genome analysis workflows executed for both settings. With FAIR data management in a single platform, stacked bioinformatic analyses are performed automatically and tracked by the database, ensuring data provenance, reproducibility, and reusability, which is key in worldwide collaborative translational research. The Trecode data model, codebooks, NGS workflows, and client programs are publicly available.

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The ProteomeXchange consortium in 2020: enabling big data approaches in proteomics

An ELIXIR Implementation paper

The ProteomeXchange (PX) consortium of proteomics resources has standardized data submission and dissemination of mass spectrometry proteomics data worldwide since 2012. In this paper, the authors describe the main developments since the previous update manuscript was published in Nucleic Acids Research in 2017. The authors described the updated submission guidelines and demonstrated that the proteomics field is now actively embracing public open data policies. At the end of June 2019, more than 14 100 datasets had been submitted to PX resources since 2012, and from those, more than 9 500 in just the last three years. In parallel, an unprecedented increase of data re-use activities in the field, including big data approaches, is enabling novel research and new data resources.

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Updates from Nodes

Sensitive Data (SD) services for Research

The news article from ELIXIR Finland discusses how organoids are useful in studying human diseases and developing new drugs and treatments. It involves processing plenty of sensitive data, where the CSCs sensitive data services play an essential role.

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Data Stewards Interest Group (DTL DSIG) meeting

12 January 2023 | 13:00-14:45 CET

In this meeting, Nazeefa Fatima (ELIXIR-NO) and Rafael Buono (ELIXIR-BE) will introduce RDMkit and Danielle Walter (ELIXIR-LU) will present the FAIR Cookbook. The meeting will also explore how researchers can all benefit from these resources.

More information and registration

Updates from Focus Groups

Synthetic data survey

Deadline: 13 May 2023

This survey is about synthetic data for the Life Sciences community. The survey aims to identify how the bioinformatics community uses synthetic data in the scope of Machine Learning and the necessity to advance their research.

Fill out the survey

Updates from Other Initiatives

BY-COVID industry event- Data driven innovation in infectious diseases

24 January 2023 | 13:00-15:00 CET | Online

The purpose of this meeting is to Identify opportunities for data driven innovation in infectious diseases, join a network of specialists and explore potential collaborations with the BY-COVID project.

MIRRI-ERIC launches the vacancy for its Executive Director

Application deadline: 1 February 2023

The Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure (MIRRI-ERIC), the pan-European distributed Research Infrastructure for the preservation, systematic investigation, provision and valorisation of microbial resources and biodiversity, is looking for an Executive Director to lead and administrate MIRRI-ERIC including the Central Coordinating Unit (CCU).

More information

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: Discover ViralZone
18 January 2023 | Virtual

SIB & ELIXIR CONVERGE course: Research Data Management and Data Management Plan
26 & 27 January 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland

6th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/challenge 2023
30 January-2 February 2023 | Olomouc, Czech Republic

SIB course: Introduction to Statistics with R
6-9 February 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland

BioSB Series: Constraint-based modeling
13-17 February 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands

BioSB Series: Knowledge graphs in the life sciences
13-17 March 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Compute Platform 2023 F2F meeting
7-8 February 2023 | Helsinki, Finland

Training Platform 2023 F2F meeting
7-9 March 2023 | Hybrid - Rome, Italy

ELIXIR All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

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

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