This week's highlights
First version of Software Management Plan interface implemented in Data Stewardship Wizard
As part of the EU-funded ELIXIR-STEERS project, the first version of an interface for creating and managing Software Management Plans within the Data Stewardship Wizard has been implemented.
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Recommended reads
Preferences regarding disclosure of risk for Parkinson's Disease in a populationbased study
An ELIXIR Luxembourg paper
Early detection of Parkinson's disease may be a key requirement for successful testing of putative diseasemodifying treatments. In the last decade, several approaches to estimate PD risk have been developed including algorithms derived from the assessment of multiple risk markers as well as the use of single risk markers such as hyposmia as a starting point. In this paper, the researchers reported results of a pilotstudy on risk disclosure preferences performed within the Healthy Brain Aging (HeBA) initiative targeting individuals from the general population.
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User-friendly ISA-based metadata annotation of life science experiments with ISA Wizard
A BioHackathon Germany report
Proper metadata annotation of the experimental outcomes is crucial to guarantee that the results data of life science experiments align with the FAIR guidelines. The widely accepted metadata annotation format for this field is the Investigation-Study-Assay (ISA) framework. However, achieving FAIR-compliant annotation of life science experiments is currently hindered by several challenges. This project is developing an intuitive and user-friendly tool called ISA-Wizard, a domain-agnostic successor to the MIAPPE-Wizard.
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Updates from Nodes
Machine Learning and AI Summer School
24-29 August 2025 | Geetbets, Belgium
VIB and SIB are pleased to announce the upcoming Machine Learning and AI Summer School that will take place on 24-29 August 2025. The Summer School will delve into the following four topics:
- Protein Language Models
- Spatial Omics Data Analysis
- Data Integration and LLMs
- Deep Learning for Protein Structures Prediction
NBIS-SciLifeLab Summer School: R beyond the basic
9-19 June 2025 | Gotland, Sweden
Application deadline: 6 April 2025
The R programming language is pivotal for data transformation, statistical analyses, and crafting publication-ready visualisations. This workshop goes beyond the basics, offering participants a comprehensive understanding of the R ecosystem.
Designing effective surveys for training evaluation
24 March 2025 | 15:00 - 16:00 CET
This interactive workshop will focus on improving survey design for evaluating training courses. Participants will collaborate to create a shared template for high-quality, effective surveys.
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Updates from Communities
New co-lead of the Rare Disease Community
The Rare Disease Community welcomes Emidio Capriotti, from the Italian Node as a new co-lead alongside Sergi Beltrans from ELIXIR Spain. Emidios research currently involves work in computational tools for genome annotation, interpretation of Rare Disease genomes, protein and RNA structural and functional predictions and prediction of protein stability change upon mutation.
Thank you to the outgoing co-leads Ana Rath and Marco Roos for their expertise, skills and enthusiasm that they have brought to the Rare Disease Community over recent years.
Updates from Focus Groups
ELIXIR Communities Future Focus Group
Kick-off workshop: 30 April 2025 | 14:00-16:00 CEST | Online
We are launching the ELIXIR Communities Future Focus Group. If you want to join and be up to date, join the group and mailing list via this link.
During the Focus Group kick-off workshop, we will present the planned activities and start to capture participants' input, thoughts, reflections and wishes with regard to ELIXIR Communities and their future.
Register and join the kick-off workshop
Updates from other initiatives
EOSC EU Node Ask Me Anything session
26 March 2025 | 16:00-17:30 CET
Join the interactive EOSC EU Node Ask Me Anything session to explore how the EOSC EU Node can transform the way you conduct research.
More information and registration
Highlights of the EOSC and EHDS joint workshop on secure processing of health data
On 4 February 2025, EOSC-ENTRUST held an online workshop with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) to discuss secure processing of health data. The workshop also addressed how the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and EHDS can collaborate to achieve interoperability in Trusted Research Environments (TREs)/Secure Processing Environments (SPEs).
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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
SIB Course: First Steps with SQL for data science
10 April 2025 | Online
SIB course: Introduction to Bayesian statistics with R
5-6 May 2025 | Basel, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to metagenomics data analysis of microbial communities
7-9 May 2025 | Fribourg, Switzerland
SIB course: Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee
16 May 2025 | Online
SIB course: Using Large Language Models for Biodata Exploration: From Theory to Practice
19 May 2025 | Lausanne, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course: Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight
7-11 July 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
Summer School Machine Learning and AI
24-29 August 2025 | Geetbets, Belgium
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR Microbiome Community F2F/hybrid meeting
9-10 April 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Biodiversity Community F2F/hybrid meeting
10-11 April 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR All Hands 2025
2-5 June 2025 | Thessaloniki, Greece
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum (EBIF) 2025
17 June 2025 | London, UK
Job vacancies
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