📰 BY-COVID newsletter summer 2024


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About BY-COVID

The BeYond-COVID project is making a wide range of COVID-19 data accessible to scientists in laboratories and anyone who can use it, such as medical staff in hospitals and government officials.

Going beyond SARS-CoV-2 data, the project provides a framework for making data from other infectious diseases open and accessible to everyone.

News

11 September | Brussels | Face-to-face

High level policy and industry event

Join us in Brussels for a one-day event following the final project General Assembly. Entitled From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises, the event will cover the value of open data the impact of the project on science and society.

Find out more and register»

⚠️Tomorrow 23 May | 14-17 CET

A Guide to FAIR Bioimage Data 2024

Do you perform biological imaging and want to maximise the potential of your bioimaging data? All welcome to the second instalment of our free online workshop. Find out more»

Learn to use MINERVA Platform's COVID-19 Disease Map with Galaxy

Datasets created within Galaxy can now be visualised in the MINERVA Platform, allowing you to explore your data in the context of the COVID-19 Disease Map.

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Quality control in human clinical and health data

The IDTk has released a summary page on quality control best practices in human clinical and health data. Find out more»

Contributions to the IDTk from outside the project are welcome, including showcasing industry use of public domain tools and data. Find out more»

Recognition for the role of image data stewardship

The BioImage Archive now supports the attribution of image datasets to collaborators and facilitators with different roles. These contributions are linked to the researcher's ORCiDs for easy tracking.

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Catch up with the BY-COVID Fest

The BY-COVID Fest took place in January and included training on Research Data Management (RDM) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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BY-COVID highlighted in EC independent expert report

The report, entitled Evaluation study of the European framework programmes for research and innovation for excellent science, presents lessons learned and recommendations for policy on excellent science under Horizon 2020.

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Frontiers report on Open Science and Covid Research

The report explores to what extent open science practices influenced the speed of Covid research, and includes a literature review, a survey more than 200 Covid researchers, and qualitative interviews with six scientists.

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Key BY-COVID publications and deliverables

D4.3 Provenance model for infectious diseases

Read D4.3»

Clinical data

Linking the ECRIN Metadata Repository with the BBMRI-ERIC Directory to connect clinical studies with related biobanks and collections.

Ohmann, Christian, et al. Open Research Europe 4.50 (2024)»

An assessment of the informative value of data sharing statements in clinical trial registries

Ohmann, Christian, et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology 24.1 (2024)»

Large scale analysis

Mobilisation and analyses of publicly available SARS-CoV-2 data for pandemic responses

Rahman, Nadim, et al. Microbial Genomics 10.2 (2024)»

Systematic detection of co-infection and intra-host recombination in more than 2 million global SARS-CoV-2 samples

Pipek, Orsolya Anna, et al. Nature Communications 15.1 (2024)»

ARGprofiler - a pipeline for large-scale analysis of antimicrobial resistance genes and their flanking regions in metagenomic datasets.

Martiny, Hannah-Marie, et al. Bioinformatics (2024)»

Drug repurposing screen to identify inhibitors of the RNA polymerase (nsp12) and helicase (nsp13) from SARS-CoV-2 replication and transcription complex

Kuzikov, Maria, et al. Virus Research 343 (2024)»

Events

Join us for the BY-COVID finale in Brussels!

The three-year BY-COVID project ends on 30 September 2024. Two co-located events are planned to share project achievements and ensure they remain sustainable. Please register for each event separately.

BY-COVID General Assembly (for BY-COVID consortium members only)

10 September | Brussels | Face-to-face + remote

Registration link»

High level policy and industry event (open to all)

From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises

11 September | Brussels | Face-to-face only

Find out more and register»

6 June 09:30-12:00 CET

Integration of individual-level socioeconomic data for infectious diseases research and prevention in Europe

Join us at the BY-COVID Spring 2024 Baseline Use Case Workshop, part of WP5 and co-organised by KNAW-DANS/CESSDA, Sciensano and IACS.

Find out more and register (by 30 May)»

5 July 13:00-15:00 CET

Maturity Model for Pathogen Data Platforms

This interactive workshop is targeted at pathogen data platform managers and developers (e.g. bioinformaticians, ITS, legal services). We will present practical illustrations of understanding and scoring the the maturity model indicators, with examples from SARS-CoV-2, bacterial and wastewater data.

Find out more and register (by 4 July)»

Supported publications

Pooling of samples to optimise SARS-CoV-2 detection in nasopharyngeal swabs and gargle lavage self-samples for covid-19 diagnostics and surveillance

Bouska, Ondrej, et al. Infectious Diseases (2024): 1-12»

Recommendations for uniform variant calling of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence across bioinformatic workflows.

Connor, Ryan, et al. Viruses 16.3 (2024): 430»

Send updates, stories and events for the next BY-COVID newsletter to Elaine Harrison, Communications Officer, ELIXIR Hub elaine.harrison@elixir-europe.org»

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