Our 2022 call for Node Services has resulted in 8 successful applications, bringing our total number of Node Services to 25. Discover the new additions below:

• RDMkit - Online guide compiling general best practices, tools and resources for research data management in life sciences
• ELIXIR Toolkit Theme - A Jekyll theme to support easy deployment of documentation websites
• ENA Data Submission Toolbox - Tools to submit sequence data to the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
• WorkflowHub - Registry for describing, sharing and publishing scientific computational
• RO-Crate Toolbox - Tools for packaging of research data with associated metadata
• iRefIndex - Consolidated resource of binary protein-protein interaction data assembled from individual datasets
• ORVAL - Web platform for the exploration of predicted candidate disease-causing variant combinations
• OLIDA - Curated database of oligogenic diseases and their causal gene variants

The aims of the ELIXIR Galaxy Community are to grow the European network of Galaxy contributors, trainers and users, and in particular to extend Galaxy training provision.

In 2021, ELIXIR Estonia began working in partnership with our Node. The Estonian ELIXIR Node supported us with crucial testing of the tools and guidelines we developed to support simple data submission from sites such as Estonian hospitals. ELIXIR Estonia acknowledged their appreciation to both our and the German Node, 

“ELIXIR Europe is all about knowledge exchange and learning from each other. Over the years, we have learned so much from our German and Belgian Galaxy colleagues. Glad we could be of help ourselves this time!”

Currently we, along with eleven other ELIXIR Nodes, are collaboratively working on an ELIXIR-funded project to strengthen data management in Galaxy.

Digital Flanders rewards companies, governments and educational institutions that help to successfully digitally transform the public sector in Flanders. With no less than 46 entries competing for one of the three prestigious awards, Dodona secured the award for most inclusive project. 

The jury declared the project the winner because the application behaves like an online co-teacher designed to give every student access to high-quality education. It is also freely accessible to everyone and supports several initiatives that promote STEM education.

The European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project was launched in Brussels on Thursday 17 November 2022. The project, coordinated by ELIXIR, involves a consortium of partners from 20 European countries and will facilitate a cross-border federated network of national genome collections for biomedical research and personalised medicine.

Building on the preparatory work of the 1+MG initiative and the Beyond 1 Million Genomes (B1MG) project, this federated network will facilitate better healthcare for citizens in Europe by providing researchers with access to over one million genomes and related clinical data.

You can read about ELIXIR Belgium’s contributions on our project’s page.

ISIDORe has launched the preparedness programmes’ call for proposals. The programme includes a list of priority preparedness pathogens clustered in multiple calls for proposals. The calls are open to all scientists both from academia and the private sector, and remain open as long as funding remains available (unless stated otherwise).

Call for Workshops at ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2023
Deadline: 23 January 2023

The call for workshops is now open. This is for all ELIXIR Platforms, Communities, Focus Groups and Node Officers (TeC, TrC, Node Coordinators etc). Submissions should be of interest to more than one ELIXIR group.

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Scalable indexing system to link COVID-19 data across research disciplines

The BY-COVID project has implemented a scalable indexing system to link data and metadata on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, along with and other infectious diseases and pathogens, across multiple areas of research. If scientific, clinical and socio-economic data are connected in a meaningful way then more powerful and efficient research into BY-COVID can be carried out.

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TeSS is a platform that provides a one-stop shop for trainers and trainees to find online information and content, including training materials, events and interactive tutorials. Browse and discover more life sciences training resources, aggregated from ELIXIR nodes and 3rd-party providers.

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