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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
ELIXIR welcomes six new Platform Leads
We are pleased to announce six new ELIXIR Platform Leads who will be taking up their roles from January 2020. We welcome the new additions, and thank those departing for their contributions over the years. Each of ELIXIR’s five Platforms...Read more
Posted: Thu 12 December 2019
Driving innovation through data management
Researchers from industry and academia gathered in Milan, Italy on the 27- 28 November 2019 to discuss challenges and opportunities in data management in the life sciences at the latest ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum. Over 70 participants attended the...Read more
Posted: Thu 12 December 2019
Hackers meet to develop life science resources
Over 150 bioinformaticians, trainers, software developers and life science enthusiasts travelled from 21 countries across four continents to gather together in Paris, France, for BioHackathon Europe. Participants spent a week in November working collaboratively on over 30 projects aimed at...Read more
Posted: Fri 6 December 2019
Germany scales up bioinformatics training
de.NBI - the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure , which acts as ELIXIR Germany - organised over 250 training courses between 2015-2019 with more than 5,200 participants from Germany and beyond. This is one of the main findings from a...Read more
Posted: Fri 15 November 2019
ELIXIR extends support for BioContainers
Building on the success of the 2018 ELIXIR Implementation Study on BioContainers , an open-source registry for over 81,000 life science research related containerised tools, ELIXIR has launched three follow-up projects to progress and maintain the work in this valuable...Read more
Posted: Fri 8 November 2019
Public data and entrepreneurship in the life sciences
ELIXIR welcomed two external experts on entrepreneurship and bio data, Hannes Rothe and Sirkka Jarvenpaa , to Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, to deliver a talk and discussion on the value of public data for entrepreneurs in the life sciences. Presenting to a...Read more
Posted: Thu 7 November 2019
Connecting data for better healthcare
Scientists from academia and industry gathered in Utrecht, Netherlands at the latest ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum last week to discuss the challenges at the forefront of data analysis in healthcare. Re-using and combining datasets has become a common practice...Read more
Posted: Fri 18 October 2019
ELIXIR as a global actor in bioinformatics training
ELIXIR trainers and training materials help to build bioinformatics capacity worldwide The rapid growth in the volume and diversity of biological data promise a better understanding of the basic biological processes. But to analyse these data and transform this information...Read more
Posted: Tue 8 October 2019
ELIXIR strengthens global collaborations
ELIXIR’s International Strategy has been updated for 2019. This publication documents the far reaching work carried out by ELIXIR Hub and Node staff to strengthen relationships with countries, initiatives and users beyond Europe. Within the past year we have been...Read more
Posted: Fri 20 September 2019
Three new ELIXIR Communities established
Structural bioinformatics, Intrinsically disordered proteins and Microbial biotechnology - these are the domains of three newly established ELIXIR Communities. Following the approval of the Communities' work plans by the ELIXIR Head of Nodes Committee, the three Communities are now starting...Read more
Posted: Thu 12 September 2019
ELIXIR's Industry events a success
Results from a long-term survey and review of the ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forums - specialised events for life science companies and academics - have revealed an overwhelmingly positive impact of the events, with over 93% of participants stating they...Read more
Posted: Fri 6 September 2019
Successful completion of ELIXIR-EXCELERATE marks new stage in ELIXIR’s development
After four years the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project successfully concluded on 31 August 2019. The main goal of the €19 million Horizon 2020 project was to bring together bioinformatics resources across Europe and integrate them into a federated infrastructure for life science...Read more
Posted: Fri 30 August 2019
European infrastructures lay the foundation for secure access to genomics data
ELIXIR has published a paper in Nature Reviews Genetics today that explores how European research infrastructures can be leveraged to facilitate transnational access to at least one million human genomes. This is building on the recently declared ‘European ‘1+ Million...Read more
Posted: Thu 22 August 2019
ELIXIR publishes its 2018 Annual Report
ELIXIR has published its Annual Report for 2018, presenting the major achievements in the last year and highlighting the effort of over 700 experts from 22 ELIXIR Nodes. The report also introduces the objectives of the new ELIXIR Scientific Programme...Read more
Posted: Wed 7 August 2019
Connecting public bioinformatics infrastructure with industry
The latest ELIXIR report showcases successful examples of collaboration between companies and ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR has published a report presenting the different ways in which ELIXIR Nodes support industry . It features a series of success stories highlighting industry-academia collaboration...Read more
Posted: Tue 23 July 2019
Call for two new members of the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee (IAC)
The ELIXIR Board is inviting candidates from life science companies to join the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee (IAC). Given the current distribution of expertise within the committee, applications are particularly encouraged from experts in the fields of plant and crop...Read more
Posted: Thu 11 July 2019
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