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Beacon receives ELIXIR infrastructure service funding
ELIXIR has awarded €124,000 in infrastructure service funding to support the Beacon network. Beacon joins two other funded infrastructure services, the ELIXIR Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) and the ELIXIR Training e-Support System (TeSS). The funding will support operational activities
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Measuring the value and impact of open science
A case study involving ELIXIR has demonstrated the value and impact of UniProt, the universal protein resource. The study, part of the PathOS EU-funded project, found estimated annual gains per user ranging from 3,513 to 5,475 euros, in addition to
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ELIXIR position paper on securing open biodata resources for European competitiveness
ELIXIR has published a position paper calling on European funders and policymakers to recognise the critical role of open biodata resources for Europe’s competitiveness. The paper outlines four policy statements, each with associated recommendations: 1. Open data resources are the
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ELIXIR releases 2024 Annual Report
ELIXIR has released its 2024 Annual Report, describing the first year of achievements under the 2024-28 Scientific Programme. In 2024, ELIXIR invested €10.2M in 12 internal projects to support activities within the four strategic areas: science, technology, Nodes and people
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ELIXIR community meets in Thessaloniki for All Hands 2025
The eleventh annual gathering of the ELIXIR community was hosted by ELIXIR Greece in the historic city of Thessaloniki. Between 2-5 June, ELIXIR All Hands 2025 brought together over 400 attendees from ELIXIR’s 22 Nodes, along with a selection of
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ELIXIR releases new international strategy
ELIXIR has released an updated international strategy to guide its engagement and collaborations beyond Europe. The revised framework outlines how ELIXIR will work with international initiatives and partner regions worldwide to address life science data challenges at a global scale
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Shaping the future of ELIXIR Communities
A new ELIXIR Focus Group has been created to help define the future of ELIXIR expert groups known as Communities. The ELIXIR Communities Future Focus Group will develop a strategic proposal for the evolution of ELIXIR Communities to be considered
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ELIXIR releases strategic visions for two scientific priority areas
ELIXIR has published strategy documents for two of the scientific priority areas defined in the Scientific Programme 2024-28: cellular and molecular research, and biodiversity, food security and pathogens. Supporting data-driven cellular and molecular research has been a focus for ELIXIR
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Research data management guide illustrates user journeys through ELIXIR resources
The ELIXIR Research Data Management (RDM) Community has published a guide to the most common user journeys in the ELIXIR research data management ecosystem. The guide is based on seven ELIXIR resources and also answers the most frequently asked questions
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Publishers encouraged to adopt DOME machine learning recommendations
Following the adoption of the DOME machine learning recommendations by GigaScience Press, publishers of machine learning life science research are being encouraged to follow suit. The DOME (data, optimisation, model and evaluation) recommendations were developed by the ELIXIR Machine Learning
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First version of Software Management Plan interface implemented in Data Stewardship Wizard
As part of the EU-funded ELIXIR-STEERS project, the first version of an interface for creating and managing Software Management Plans (SMPs) within the Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) has been implemented. ELIXIR-STEERS brings together ELIXIR’s 22 Nodes to enhance large-scale, cross-border
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Second edition of ELIXIR leadership programme for women
ELIXIR has launched the second edition of a leadership programme for women: ELEAD 2.0 (ELIXIR LEadership And Diversity mentoring programme). ELEAD 2.0 is funded for 30 months and provides structured mentorship, peer support and professional training to women in leadership
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Story collection shows interoperability successes
A set of seven stories has been created to demonstrate how biodata and software can be made more interoperable. The stories have been produced by ELIXIR’s Interoperability Platform, a pan-European group of experts working to improve interoperability across the life
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Strategic collaboration between ELIXIR and Euro-BioImaging
The strategic collaboration between ELIXIR, the European life science data infrastructure, and Euro-BioImaging ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biological and biomedical imaging, has been renewed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding . ELIXIR and Euro-BioImaging share a
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Successful supercomputing bid enables ELIXIR compute community
12 February 2025: The original article omitted to mention the involvement of institutes from other ELIXIR Nodes, notably Spain, Greece, Luxembourg and Italy, in European AI Factories with life science use cases. Further details on the involvement of each country
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Project to link human genomic data completes ELIXIR-funded portfolio
A two-year project to integrate European human genomic data from different sources has been awarded funding by ELIXIR. The project, called FEGA-Connect, aims to develop solutions to link multi-omic sensitive data deposition databases, biobanks and derived knowledge resources. It is
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ELIXIR and Instruct-ERIC announce strategic collaboration
ELIXIR, the European life science data infrastructure, and Instruct-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for structural biology, have announced a strategic collaboration with the signing of a joint statement. Along with their shared objectives to support life science research, the organisations
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ELIXIR and US National Cancer Institute build partnership with staff exchange
ELIXIR and the US National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) have built on their partnership with a staff exchange to facilitate knowledge sharing. The five-month exchange, funded by ELIXIR, brought together five ELIXIR Nodes (Greece, Portugal, Spain
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BioHackathon Europe 2024 returns to Barcelona
BioHackathon Europe is ELIXIR’s annual flagship event that brings together bioinformaticians from around the world to work collaboratively on various hacking projects. This year, it was in Barcelona, Spain with 180 in-person participants and over 140 online, hacking through 30
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7 ELIXIR-related projects funded by OSCARS open call
Seven projects with links to ELIXIR feature in the 58 projects funded by the first OSCARS open call. OSCARS is an EU-funded project which aims to bring together leading research infrastructures to strengthen open science in Europe. It runs two
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