Over the coming decade, Europe will face critical challenges in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring food security and combating pathogens. Our 2024–28 Programme will address these issues by mobilising and integrating molecular data, using successful coordination models from human genomics. Through strategic investments and collaboration in externally-funded projects, ELIXIR will enhance scientific services and support transnational research in these essential areas.
The following projects have been selected as part of the ELIXIR 2024–28 Programme’s Biodiversity, food security and pathogens Science tier:
- BioDiv-FAIR-Checker: Raising FAIRness of European biodiversity data through ELIXIR-aligned standards, services and training
- Building FAIR metadata standards for non-human pathogen genomic and phenotypic data
- Creation of a virtual assistant guiding plant researchers in making their datasets FAIR compliant
- FAIRferm: FAIRifying microbiome–metabolome time-series data from food fermentation processes
- E-PAN: Enhancing pan-genome analysis in plants
- FAIRyMAGs: Optimising Metagenomics Assembled Genomes building: workflow finalisation, training material development, real data evaluation and resource allocation tool creation
- HARVEST: Handling and alignment of plant research FAIRification – value through the use of ELIXIR data Standards and Tools
- KYBELE: Knowledge Yield from Biodiversity Literature through Large Language Model (LLM) Extraction
- Odyssey: Connecting molecular and geographical biodiversity data
Duration:
2024 to 2028
