📣 ELIXIR is offering an 8-week summer placement for students interested in #digitalcomms and #dataquality. Work with the ELIXIR Website, Comms and Technical teams to improve ELIXIR website and related digital services.
Apply by 3 May 👉 https://loom.ly/s_fcJD4
Latvia 🇱🇻 and Poland 🇵🇱 have joined ELIXIR as Observers!
Observer status enables the Latvian and Polish bioinformatics communities to 🤝 strengthen collaboration with other ELIXIR Nodes and supports their transition to full membership.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/silnn-s
Deadline for #BioHackEU26 project proposals submission is midnight today!
🎯 If you have a project idea, but don’t know how to push forward 🏃, submit your proposal by midnight today: https://loom.ly/5gopDeQ
Here's our preprint from the 2025 ELIXIR BioHackathon in Berlin! 🎉
@slobentanzer.bsky.social @ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social @elixir-europe.org @bioconductor.bsky.social
🏃 Last push for your #BioHackEU26 project proposals!
Don’t miss the great chance 🚀 to meet and work with other #bioinformaticians.
🔗 Submission deadline tomorrow (15 April): https://loom.ly/5gopDeQ
Watch the full interview with Geert van Geest: youtu.be/CWbBuKB2nD0
🌍 #BioHackathon Europe brings together people with different backgrounds and expertise, and facilitates new collaborations. 🙌 Submit your project proposal now to connect with other #bioinformatics experts to accelerate your project in #BioHackEu26.
Deadline 15 April 🔗 https://loom.ly/m6hEBcM
The University of York has joined ELIXIR-UK 🎉 With three Data Stewardship Training Fellows already in the network and strong regional training links, York is a very welcome addition to our research infrastructure.
Read more: elixiruknode.org/news/2026/un...
A week left to prepare for the project proposal for the #BioHackEU26.
🧑💻 Join hundreds of willing #bioinformaticians
🧬 Huge range of expertise in #bioinformatics
🌥 Work on blue sky ideas or advance existing projects
🔗 Submission deadline 15 April: https://loom.ly/5gopDeQ
🙌 Join the online workshop to learn more about ELIXIR-funded project E-PAN's achievements and standards and tools that can support more reliable and #interoperable #pan_genome research across plant species.
🗓️ 18 May 2026 | 🕑 14:00-16:00 CET
Register now 👉 https://loom.ly/oA0rh3A
Watch the interview with BioHackathon Europe co-organiser, Mihail Anton: youtu.be/T5LJLFJIido
🌍 BioHackathon Europe is a unique opportunity to bring people together to work on #bioinformatics projects for a week. If you have a project idea, but don’t know how to push forward 🚀, submit your proposal now to accelerate your project in #BioHackEU26!
👉 https://loom.ly/m6hEBcM
Watch the full interview with #BioHackEU25 project lead, Berenice Batut: youtu.be/8iL3LdzjtJw
✨ The next 3D-BioInfo webinar will focus on deep learning and #3DBioInfo. Join the webinar to hear about deep learning for structured-based drug design and protein-ligand cofolding methods.
🗓️15 April 2026 | 🕔 17:00-18:00 CEST
Register now: https://loom.ly/aOcJfJE
👀 Have a new #bioinformatics project idea in your mind? Want to work and discuss your ideas with other bioinformaticians? Don't miss the chance to submit your project proposal for #BioHackEU26!
🔗 Submit by 15 April: https://loom.ly/5gopDeQ
This document is the outcome of collaborative work among groups, including established #FederatedEGA Nodes and Nodes currently under development! We also bridged metadata modelling with projects and standards such as @elixir-europe.org, #GDI, @ga4gh.org, Beacon, and #Bioschemas
🚀 New and enhanced resources to support sustainable #ResearchDataManagement services across Europe have been released following a two-year ELIXIR-funded project, DATAREX - Data Management for Research in ELIXIR, strengthening ELIXIR’s RDM Community.
Read the news: https://loom.ly/VSx73Rc
📣 BioHackathon Europe 2026 Call for project proposals is now open!
Submit your #bioinformatics project 🧑💻 for #BioHackEU26 by 15 April: biohackathon-europe.org
🙌 We welcome proposals that focus on areas supporting the work of ELIXIR – #FAIRdata, #metadata standards, #ontologies and more.
📣 BioHackathon Europe 2026 call for project proposals will open on 16 March (next Monday)! Get your project proposals ready 🚀 We look forward to seeing different innovative ideas in #bioinformatics.
Check the website for more information 👉 https://loom.ly/m6hEBcM
📣 The ELIXIR coordinated #EOSC_ENTRUST project published its 2️⃣ policy brief – highlighting the #federation and governance approaches needed to create a trustworthy research infrastructure 🔬 on top of the #interoperable network of #TREs.
Read the summary news 👉 https://loom.ly/N1y07a0
Following the passing of Phil Bourne on 8 March 2026, ELIXIR remembers with gratitude a long-standing supporter, collaborator and advocate for open science. We greatly valued his thoughtful reviews of ELIXIR activities and the insight he shared.
https://loom.ly/Gz3oYbg
✨ The next #ELIXIR_3DBioInfo webinar will focus on computational #biophysics.
🗓️ 10 March 2026 | 🕔 17:00-18:00 CET
Join the webinar to hear the recent activities in the Community, including dark energy in functional #protein and fold-switching behaviour of RfaH.
👉 https://loom.ly/ctFNLug
🐄 A new ELIXIR Community has been established to advance research linking #genomes 🧬 and #phenomes in domestic animals. It aims to develop a coordinated, open and standardised data life cycle for domestic animal research. Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/sGYRADY
✨ The next #ELIXIR_3DBioInfo webinar will focus on computational #biophysics.
🗓️ 10 March 2026 | 🕔 17:00-18:00 CET
Join the webinar to hear the recent activities in the Community, including dark energy in functional #protein and fold-switching behaviour of RfaH.
👉 https://loom.ly/ctFNLug
🤔 What are life science companies' approaches to open source software and workflows? In the ELIXIR report, we revealed three ways companies engage with OSSWs:
🔵 Open source first 🔵 Open source support 🔵 Open source ingestion
📄 Read the report: https://loom.ly/88rZbdo
🎉Proud to see the @ai4life.bsky.social project led by #EuroBioImaging, featured by @embl.org. Check out the amazing legacy of this project and see how deep learning models can be applied to your research 🔽
www.embl.org/news/lab-mat...
The Instruct-ERIC R&D Pilot Award is open to early career researchers in structural biology, providing the opportunity and funding to obtain preliminary data to use for future grant applications!
Find out more about the call, and all about Instruct Centre Spain - instruct-eric.org/rd-pilot-pro...
ELEAD 2nd Edition – face-to-face leadership training in Prague 🇨🇿
The in-person training provides space for 💡 reflection, practical skill-building and network development – helping ensure that ELIXIR’s future leadership reflects the diversity of its community.
#Leadership #WomenInScience
Graphic celebrating a milestone for the Galaxy Training Network. Large text at the top reads “Congratulations to the Galaxy Training Network on 500+ tutorials!” Below is a screenshot of the Galaxy Training Hall of Fame page showing statistics: 517 contributors, 35 topics, 501 tutorials, and 10.6 years. The “501 tutorials” box is highlighted with a red starburst. A world map with contributor locations appears beneath the statistics.
🎉 Time to celebrate! The Galaxy Training Network just passed 500 tutorials!
Free. Open. Community-built. Reproducible.
Powered by 500+ contributors worldwide, making data analysis accessible to everyone.
Be sure to check out this amazing team and the GTN, here: training.galaxyproject.org
Tool of the week: Comparing microbial #genomes just got easier. EDGAR – comparative genomics without the headaches. Publication-ready figures, genome similarity analyses, phylogenetic trees. All in one platform. 🧬
edgar3.computational.bio.uni-giessen.de
