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ELIXIR expands biodiversity activities with new Community
ELIXIR has launched a new Biodiversity Community to advance the life science data infrastructure’s support for biodiversity research. The Community brings together experts across ELIXIR with external partners to coordinate activities and build on ELIXIR’s existing biodiversity portfolio. Protecting and...Read more
Posted: Fri 26 May 2023
ELIXIR industry event: machine learning and AI in life science research
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: AI in health research On 13 April, ELIXIR and ELIXIR Netherlands held an Innovation and SME Forum focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in health research with more than 60 participants from industry...Read more
Posted: Thu 27 April 2023
Austria joins ELIXIR as Observer
Austria has joined ELIXIR as an Observer, following approval by the ELIXIR Board on 17 April 2023. The ELIXIR Node in Austria will now begin to be established. ELIXIR Nodes bring together organisations that provide bioinformatics services, such as universities...Read more
Posted: Fri 28 April 2023
ELIXIR Director announces departure at end of current Scientific Programme
Niklas Blomberg, Director of ELIXIR since its formation in 2013, announced this week that he will be stepping down from the role at the end of 2023, coinciding with the completion of the 2019-23 Scientific Programme. Niklas leaves to take...Read more
Posted: Fri 21 April 2023
Taking stock – the ELIXIR innovation and industry programme
Interactions with industry have been a key part of ELIXIR since the infrastructure was launched in 2013. Nearly ten years on, we reflect on how the ELIXIR industry programme has evolved and its impact so far. As a publicly-funded infrastructure,...Read more
Posted: Fri 14 April 2023
ELIXIR and BBMRI-ERIC announce strategic collaboration
ELIXIR, the European life science data infrastructure, and BBMRI-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources, have announced a strategic collaboration with the signing of a joint statement . The organisations share a commitment to bridging the gap...Read more
Posted: Wed 29 March 2023
Highlights of ELIXIR-supported publications in 2022
One hundred and forty five peer-reviewed papers and preprints resulting from activities funded by ELIXIR were published in the last calendar year. As a research infrastructure, the activities that ELIXIR funds yield a diverse range of publications. Here we explore...Read more
Posted: Thu 16 March 2023
Building European capacity in single-cell omics
A six-month staff exchange, funded by ELIXIR, has been successful in building capacity for single-cell analysis in ELIXIR’s Czech Node. Pavel Ostasov, a postdoc from Charles University in the Czech Republic, travelling to Imperial College London (ICL) in the UK...Read more
Posted: Fri 3 March 2023
Improving the FAIRification of human copy number variation information
A 24-month project involving ten ELIXIR Nodes has led to improved standardisation of the storage and analysis of human copy number variation (hCNV) data. hCNVs are repeated sections of the genome which vary between individuals and have been found to...Read more
Posted: Thu 23 February 2023
Measuring the impact of ELIXIR’s training
As a distributed infrastructure, ELIXIR’s training provision is spread throughout ELIXIR’s 22 Nodes. The training aims to enhance data and software skills in the life sciences, for example building expertise in data management, tools, workflows and standards. There are many...Read more
Posted: Mon 30 January 2023
ELIXIR launches two new Communities: Systems Biology and Single-Cell Omics
Two new Communities have been formed in ELIXIR, representing the fields of systems biology and single-cell omics. Systems biology aims to understand how biological functions emerge from interactions between the multiple components of living systems, whereas single-cell omics is a...Read more
Posted: Wed 18 January 2023
ELIXIR Core Data Resources feature strongly in first selection of Global Core Biodata Resources
The Global Biodata Coalition has announced the first set of Global Core Biodata Resources (GCBRs). The list comprises 37 resources whose long term funding and sustainability is critical to life science and biomedical research worldwide. ELIXIR Core Data Resources (CDRs)...Read more
Posted: Fri 16 December 2022
Fifth year of BioHackathon Europe
The fifth Biohackathon Europe was held on 7-11 November 2022 in Paris, France. ELIXIR welcomed over 300 participants on-site and virtually from around the world. Over the week, participants worked collaboratively on 35 hacking projects covering a wide range of...Read more
Posted: Thu 8 December 2022
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum on machine learning in life sciences
On 11 October 2022, ELIXIR held the third ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum (EBIF) in a hybrid format. This year’s EBIF brought together bioinformaticians from academia and industry to discuss visionary ideas in making machine learning robust and reproducible for life...Read more
Posted: Fri 4 November 2022
ELIXIR supports professional learning in the management of research infrastructures
Thirteen new students have been selected by ELIXIR to participate in the next Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures (EMMRI), starting in November 2022 and run by the University of Milano-Bicocca. This is the fifth time the course has...Read more
Posted: Wed 2 November 2022
Creating impact through knowledge exchange in ELIXIR
ELIXIR creates value by sharing expertise, knowledge and mentoring through a multitude of formal and informal networks. Here we follow one knowledge exchange pathway to illustrate the strength and reciprocity of the ELIXIR network. We also see how training and...Read more
Posted: Mon 24 October 2022
ELIXIR at ECCB2022 and Innovation and SME Forum in Sitges
On 18-21 September, bioinformatics delegates gathered in Sitges, Spain for the 21st European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2022) , organised by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) and the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB/ELIXIR-ES). The conferences...Read more
Posted: Thu 20 October 2022
ELIXIR welcomes two new Platform co-leads
ELIXIR is pleased to announce two new Platform co-leads who will be taking up their roles from October 2022. Harald Wagener (Germany) joins as Compute Platform co-lead and Eva Alloza (Spain) as Training Platform co-lead. They replace Steven Newhouse (EMBL-EBI,...Read more
Posted: Mon 26 September 2022
Providing safe access to sensitive human data across borders: Federated EGA becomes a reality
The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) is pleased to announce the first signings of the Collaboration Agreement between national Nodes and Central EGA. This important step in the formation of a Federated EGA to better address transnational human data sharing challenges...Read more
Posted: Wed 21 September 2022
ELIXIR welcomes new Head of Operations
As of 1 September, Ivana Veršić has joined ELIXIR as the new Head of Operations. Ivana comes from the Consortium of Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA ERIC) where she held the position of Chief Operations Officer (COO). She takes over...Read more
Posted: Mon 5 September 2022
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