This week's highlights
ELIXIR position paper on FP10, the next EU research programme
ELIXIR has published its position paper on Framework Programme 10 (FP10), the next seven-year EU programme for research. The position paper summarises ELIXIRs recommendations to ensure that research infrastructures enable science in Europe to thrive.
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ELIXIR at the ECCB 2024
16 - 20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
At ECCB 2024, as part of the ELIXIR sponsorship, we will have two workshops, the Communities track and a booth throughout the conference. We encourage all Node members who attend ECCB 2024 to join the ELIXIR sessions and come to the booth to chat with our booth visitors. ELIXIR is at booth no.3.
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Reminder to submit your All Hands meeting slides or posters on F1000
Deadline: Today - 9 September 2024
Did you present slides or a poster at the All Hands Meeting 2024?
Please submit to the All Hands Gateway area on F1000 by the end of the day for inclusion in the meeting report.
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Recommended reads
RING 4.0: faster residue interaction networks with novel interaction types across over 35,000 different chemical structures
An ELIXIR Italy paper
The RING server is a powerful tool for calculating non-covalent molecular interactions based on geometrical parameters, providing high-quality and reliable results. This paper introduces RING 4.0, which includes significant enhancements for identifying both covalent and non-covalent bonds in protein structures. It now encompasses seven different interaction types, with the addition of -hydrogen, halogen bonds and metal ion coordination sites. The RING web server has been redesigned to provide a more engaging and interactive user experience, incorporating new visualisation tools. Users can now visualise all types of interactions simultaneously in the structure viewer and network component.
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FAIRsofta practical implementation of FAIR principles for research software
An EVERSE funded paper
The computational component in Life Sciences research is often challenging to reproduce and verify. These issues are detrimental to the overall quality of scientific research. This paper presents a comprehensive series of quantitative indicators based on a pragmatic interpretation of the FAIR Principles and their implementation on OpenEBench, ELIXIRs open platform providing both support for scientific benchmarking and an active observatory of quality-related features for Life Sciences research software. The results serve to understand the current practices around research software quality-related features and provide objective indications for improving them.
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Updates from Nodes
3rd edition of the HADACA data challenge: Multimodal data integration to quantify tumor heterogeneity in cancer
2 - 6 December 2024 | Aussois, France
Registration deadline: 4 October 2024
The aim of this challenge is to explore and discover new methods for solving deconvolution problems. This challenge will focus on quantifying tumour heterogeneity using supervised deconvolution approaches on bulk multiomics data.
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Register for the 3rd BioHackathon Germany
9 - 13 December 2024 | Kassel, Germany
Registration deadline: 15 November 2024
de.NBI and ELIXIR Germany are thrilled to start the registration for the 3rd BioHackathon Germany in Kassel. Join BioHackathon Germany for 9 engaging projects across various areas including Training, TRE, BioImaging & Plant Bioinformatics.
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de.NBI Indsutrial Forum: AI ventures in the life sciences - challenges, needs and opportunities
19 October 2024 | 13:00 - 16:30 CEST | Online
This meeting is an opportunity to meet and discuss current academic and industrial topics of interest. The topic of this year's meeting is AI Ventures in the Life Sciences - Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities.
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EFPIA playbook recognises FAIR Cookbook as essential for data sharing
The data sharing playbook recommends using the FAIR Cookbook, a live resources that provides a step-by-step guide to making data FAIR. Prof Susanna-Assunta Sansone and Dr Philippe Rocca-Serra of ELIXIR-UK have championed the FAIR Cookbook with colleagues from Luxemburg, Switzerland, Spain and The Netherlands, and in collaboration with the USA NIH Office of Data Science Strategy.
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Updates from Platforms
How to make use of the ELIXIR Training Platform and its resources
ELIXIR Training Platform empowers researchers to use ELIXIR's services and tools, strengthens national training programmes, and grows bioinformatics, data stewardship, and training capacity and competence across Europe. Read the article on FEBS Network to learn how to make use of the ELIXIR Training Platform and its resources.
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Updates from Communities
Register to join the Single-Cell Omics Community meeting virtually
16-17 September 2024 | Hybrid - Helsinki, Finland
Virtual attendee registration deadline: 12 September
The Single-Cell Omics Community will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in September. The meeting is held right before ECCB and will include presentations, breakout sessions and time for professional networking. The first half day will focus on Community activities and the 2nd half day will have a stronger focus on activities ongoing in the Implementation Study.
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Updates from other initiatives
The REINFORCING open and responsible research and innovation forum
7 - 8 October 2024 | Vienna, Austria
The forum features an engaging mix of interactive workshops and expert panels, offering a unique opportunity for participants to delve into groundbreaking research, share valuable insights, and engage in thoughtful discussions.
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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
VIB course: Research Data Management: your ally on the way to your publication
1, 8, 22 October 2024 | Ghent, Belgium
SIB course: Introduction to machine learning with Python
3 - 4 October 2024 | Basel, Switzerland
VIB course: Docker and Apptainer (Singularity) for reproducible and automated data analysis
14 - 15 October 2024 | Leuven, Belgium
SIB course: Ensuring More Accurate, Generalisable, and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Bioinformatics
15 October 2024 | Online
SIB course: Version Control with Git
16 - 17 October 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
Training clinic - October 2024
23 October 2024 | Online
SIB course: Single-Cell transcriptomics with R
29 - 31 October 2024 | Bellinzona, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Containers and Snakemake for Reproducible Research
21-22 October 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course: Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python
17 - 21 February 2025 | Online
EMBL-EBI course: Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation
24 - 28 February 2025 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ECCB 2024
16 - 20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
ELIXIR Single-Cell Omics Community meeting
16 - 17 September 2024 | Helsinki, Finland
ELIXIR Data Platform F2F 2024
1 - 2 October 2024 | Padova, Italy
ELIXIR STEERS WP2 & WP3 workshop
2 - 3 October 2024 | Padova, Italy
BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community day
19 November 2024 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR Interoperability Platform F2F meeting (hybrid) 2024
25 - 26 November 2024 | Hybrid - Manchester, UK
Job vacancies
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