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A beacon in the ocean of SARS-CoV-2 data
An ELIXIR Spain platform allows researchers to browse SARS-CoV-2 variability at the genome, amino acid, structural and motif level. When responding to a health crisis, data play a critical role in identifying drug targets, vaccines or disease-related symptoms, and understanding...Read more
Posted: Mon 7 September 2020
Data FAIRification with FAIRplus
Experts from ELIXIR-coordinated project FAIRplus worked with the RESOLUTE consortium to FAIRify their early data outcomes and to establish sustainable FAIR data processes. Data FAIRification makes research data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. FAIR data are then easily accessible...Read more
Posted: Fri 31 July 2020
ELIXIR publishes 2019 Annual Report
ELIXIR has published its Annual Report for 2019 , showcasing the major achievements in the last year and highlighting the effort of over 700 experts from 22 ELIXIR Nodes. The report presents ELIXIR services from across ELIXIR Nodes and reports...Read more
Posted: Fri 3 July 2020
Johanna Törnroos wins the best presentation award
At the Impact and Innovation Mini-Symposium of the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2020 Earlier this month, Johanna Törnroos won the award for the best presentation at the Impact and Innovation Mini-Symposium during the All Hands Meeting 2020 . The All...Read more
Posted: Thu 25 June 2020
Take the data curation survey
The ELIXIR Data Platform has launched a survey about community data curation. The goal of the survey is to find ways to engage community curators better, and to make community curation more effective and sustainable. The survey will help identify:...Read more
Posted: Thu 25 June 2020
New collaboration strategy with the Australian BioCommons
ELIXIR launches a three-year collaboration strategy with the Australian BioCommons research infrastructure Signed on 9 April 2020, the collaboration strategy between ELIXIR and the Australian BioCommons seeks to create a cooperative plan to exploit international synergies between the two research...Read more
Posted: Thu 4 June 2020
ELIXIR launches new EU Project — B1MG
This Thursday, ELIXIR hosts the virtual kick-off meeting of the B1MG project (Beyond One Million Genomes), a new ELIXIR-coordinated project funded by Horizon 2020 The project’s purpose is to support the implementation of the declaration of cooperation ‘ Towards access...Read more
Posted: Thu 4 June 2020
10 Rules for Making Training Materials FAIR
The ELIXIR FAIR Training working group publishes a paper in PLoS Computational Biology — ‘10 Simple Rules for Making training materials FAIR.’ The collaborative effort, which started at the ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2018 , has involved a multitude of experts...Read more
Posted: Thu 21 May 2020
ELIXIR facilitates development of COVID-19 Disease Map
ELIXIR Nodes contribute to the development of a knowledgebase of SARS-CoV-2 virus host-pathogen interactions. Announced last week in Scientific data , the COVID-19 Disease Map is an international effort to organise the molecular processes underlying the virus-host interactions in COVID-19...Read more
Posted: Thu 14 May 2020
Driving Beacon Version 2 development with an invaluable ELIXIR internship
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (ELIXIR-Spain) shares its experience with the intern, Marta Ferri, who helped to propel the Beacon v.2 development this year. The Beacon project was born at the heart of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health...Read more
Posted: Wed 6 May 2020
Sharing experiences for future ELIXIR internships: An interview with Marta Ferri, Beacon Intern at CRG (ELIXIR-ES)
Marta Ferri Peradalta completed her BSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Barcelona and followed her passion for Bioinformatics with an MSc at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Immediately after her postgraduate studies, she was granted with an...Read more
Posted: Wed 6 May 2020
ELIXIR Spain launches tool to study the 3D structure of SARS-CoV-2 proteins
The ELIXIR Node in Spain has created a new COVID-19 tool for 3DBIONOTES-WS Today, the Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), part of the ELIXIR Spanish Node, launches the 3DBIONOTES-COVID19 tool. The resource is integrated into 3DBIONOTES-WS, a web-based application...Read more
Posted: Mon 4 May 2020
The ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum goes virtual
The 2020 ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum — What’s brewing in bioinformatics? Online events have always been an option. However, with the current travel restrictions, virtual conferences have become an opportunity to explore what will most likely be the future —...Read more
Posted: Thu 30 April 2020
ELIXIR announces Horizon Europe Missions efforts
Today, ELIXIR published Horizon Europe Mission factsheets presenting how its efforts can be used by researchers working in three of the proposed Missions of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme : Cancer Soil health and food Healthy oceans, seas, coastal and...Read more
Posted: Tue 21 April 2020
New resource to highlight national efforts against COVID-19 across ELIXIR
Over the last two months, ELIXIR Nodes have reacted swiftly and promptly to support researchers in their combined efforts against the pandemic. We recently listed the bioinformatics services within ELIXIR available to researchers to assist all COVID-19 projects. In addition...Read more
Posted: Tue 21 April 2020
Hacking the pandemic
Global research community meets online to develop tools for COVID-19 analysis Over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians joined forces in the COVID-19 virtual Biohackathon to develop new tools for working with the COVID-19 data. The outcomes of the event...Read more
Posted: Tue 14 April 2020
ELIXIR’s services to support COVID-19 research
The global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to many organisations and individual bioinformaticians creating a plethora of data visualisation tools , dashboards and phylogeny maps in an attempt to share accurate data, speed up research efforts, and ultimately find solutions...Read more
Posted: Tue 24 March 2020
Open collaborative infrastructure to tackle public health emergencies
The rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus highlights the need for an open analytics environment so that the global research community can collaborate on developing effective countermeasures. (27 February, Hinxton, UK) Open access data and open, reproducible analytics are crucial...Read more
Posted: Thu 27 February 2020
Exciting progress in the ELIXIR Galaxy community
Galaxy Europe ( https://usegalaxy.eu ) provides a free data analysis environment for the growing number of life science researchers. Less than two years from its launch, the platform boasts over 12,000 unique users who executed more than six million analysis...Read more
Posted: Mon 10 February 2020
ELIXIR-CONVERGE — a new project to streamline data management practices
From accelerating to converging After the completion of the successful ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project , which provided ELIXIR with solid foundations, today ELIXIR kicks off a new project to support the provision of data management across Europe. ELIXIR-CONVERGE , a €5 million...Read more
Posted: Fri 31 January 2020
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