ELIXIR Europe

✨ 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

A menagerie of deep-learning models | EMBL EMBL scientists collaborate to establish easy-to-use ‘Zoo’ of pre-trained AI models for microscopy image analysis.

🎉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

📹 Watch the highlight video of the 2025 BioHackathon Europe: loom.ly/AfKwtZA

BioHackathon Europe Find out about the 2026 BioHackathon Europe, where hackers get together to make life science research easier.

📣 BioHackathon 2026 will be held on 9-13 November 2026 in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸! Call for project proposals will open on 16 March and close on 15 April at midnight.
More information on project proposal scopes: https://loom.ly/m6hEBcM
Check the #BioHackEU25 highlights: https://loom.ly/AfKwtZA

In 2025, ELIXIR supported 💪 11 Staff Exchanges, enabling experts from ELIXIR Nodes to work with peers across the network 🌍.
🎯 Strengthens links between ELIXIR Nodes
💪 Builds capacity within Nodes
🙌 Exchanges of best practices in bioinformatics service

Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/WXQsmCU

We are the @elixir-europe.org training platform

ELIXIR-UK awarded DisCouRSE funding for PeerLadder pilot ELIXIR-UK members secure DisCouRSE Flexible Fund support for PeerLadder, peer-mentoring for inclusive leadership for digital research professionals (dRTPs)

💙 Nice way to mark #11F International Day of Women and Girls in Science

New DisCouRSE funding for PeerLadder led by ELIXIR-UK members – a peer-mentoring pilot focused on inclusive leadership for digital RTPs.

🔗 elixiruknode.org/news/2026/di...

#WomenInScience

⚖️ Today, ELIXIR celebrates the International Day of Women & Girls in Science! ELIXIR’s leadership and diversity mentoring programme aims to empower women in STEM leadership to shape the future.
Check the impact case study 👉 https://loom.ly/9t1OuFg

#ELIXIRforEquality #Febuary11 #WomeninScience

🤔 Why are life science companies turning to #opensource software and workflows? 💡 Because innovation moves faster when you don’t build everything from scratch!
Read the ELIXIR report to explore how companies use OSSWs to handle complex research data 👉 https://loom.ly/88rZbdo

#OpenSoftware

📣 Join the ELIXIR #3DBioInfo webinar on 24 February!
The webinar will focus on the topic of chemical ambiguities in #biomacromolecular modelling💡. The session will be chaired by 🔬 Dr Jennifer Flemming and presented by Dr Filipe Menezes.
Register now: https://loom.ly/TyUGvAM

🚀 ECCB 2026 will host a Career Workshop on Wed 2 Sept open to all participants. Whether you are considering academia, industry, or alternative paths, your input will help us design a useful workshop, to reflect your needs, questions, & aspirations.
👉 Fill out this poll: tinyurl.com/2shevyst

#Opensource software and workflows are doing a lot of heavy lifting 🏋️ in the life sciences! Let's revisit ✨ ELIXIR's report on "Open source software and workflows: a driving force for innovation in life sciences" to find out the importance of #OSSWs 👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17570133

✨ ELIXIR features in both life science projects selected in the second oscarsproject.bsky.social open call 👉 https://loom.ly/T0DHrV8

🔬 MultiCellML-TDR - #FAIRness of computational models
🩺 FLEX4HEALTH - #federatedlearning across sensitive health datasets

📽️ Tina Wiegand of @embl.org #TREC project, explains how EuBI-Bridge, an open-source tool by #EuroBioImaging, helped her upload a marine sample 🪸 🌊 dataset to the BioImage Archive.
🌟 Learn more about this new tool & the amazing dataset ⤵️
youtube.com/shorts/K7z7D...

⭕Call for Papers for the Dataverse Community Meeting 2026.

📆Extended deadline: 2 February

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Today’s #ELIXIRFridayReads is a whitepaper on the current landscape of #e_learning initiatives across #ELIXIRNodes and #ELIXIRCommunities.
✨ Standardisation and interoperability
🚀 Integration of e-learning into broader educational strategies
Read more: https://loom.ly/4H6Gzp8

📣 Join the #EOSCENTRUST online workshop on 25 February 2026 to discuss: 🎯 Challenges faced by data spaces, #AIFactories and #EOSCFederation💡 How outcomes from EOSC-ENTRUST relate to these challenges.

📆 25 February 2026 🕚 11:00-12:30 CET 👉 https://loom.ly/mREJp2E

📣 Join the ELIXIR #3DBioInfo webinar on 24 February!
The webinar will focus on the topic of chemical ambiguities in #biomacromolecular modelling💡. The session will be chaired by 🔬 Dr Jennifer Flemming and presented by Dr Filipe Menezes.
Register now: https://loom.ly/TyUGvAM

Visual with the text: Info day on Widening calls for proposals on 22 January 2026.

Looking for EU funding? Join the #HorizonEU Widening info day and discover new funding opportunities under the WIDERA Work Programme 2026-27.

Experts from @ec.europa.eu will present the new call topics and provide guidance.

22 Jan 2026 🧪 link.europa.eu/JYYVPV

Join online, no registration needed!

📣 The ELIXIR organised EU project, #EOSC_ENTRUST, is organising an online workshop on 25 February 2026! Join the workshop to discuss 💡 the relevance of Trusted Research Environments on enabling data sovereignty in European Data Spaces.

Register now 👉 https://loom.ly/mREJp2E

🎉 The last newsletter for #eccb2026 is out! Organized by the @sib.swiss, from 31 Aug to 4 Sept 2026, the European Conference on Computational Biology will bring together the international #computationalbiology community for 5 days of science, collaboration & inspiration.
👉 Read more: chk.me/jcH79HN

✨ We are recruiting the next cohort of #EuroBioImaging Scientific Ambassadors! If you are passionate about open science & imaging and want to enhance your network or learn new skills, please apply!
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 30
www.eurobioimaging.eu/scientific-a...

🇸🇰 Slovakia has become the newest member to join #ELIXIR, following the signature of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth. 🙌 This brings the number of ELIXIR members to 23.

Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/h4CyhJo