ELIXIR has invested a total of 1.6 million euros in 12 projects to address the scientific priorities of the Scientific Programme 2024-28. The projects form part of three larger initiatives, called Commissioned Services, which support activities that connect experts in ELIXIR Nodes and Communities to develop the long-term strategy of ELIXIR.
Applications for funding were invited in ELIXIR’s three priority scientific areas: cellular and molecular research; biodiversity, food security and pathogens; and human data and translational research. The successful projects demonstrate objectives aligned with ELIXIR’s overall goals and connect ELIXIR’s expert groups through location (Nodes), research domain (Communities) and technical area (Platforms).
The three Commissioned Services run from January 2024 for three years and provide leadership and support strategy development in each of the scientific areas. The newly announced projects start on 1 January 2025, last a maximum of two years and form work packages of the three Commissioned Services.
The tables below list the projects funded, along with the Nodes and Communities involved in each proposal. Further details on the projects can be found by clicking on each section header.
Cellular and molecular research
Project title |
ELIXIR Nodes |
ELIXIR Communities |
Advancing structural and functional ontologies of disordered proteins |
Hungary, Belgium, Italy, EMBL-EBI |
3D BioInfo, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) |
DBTLHub: Towards a one-stop shop for connecting databases, datasets and tools for the Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle in Biotechnology |
Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, UK, Greece, France, Slovenia |
Biodiversity, Microbiome, Metabolomics, Microbial Biotechnology, Research Data Management, Systems Biology |
Spatial2Galaxy: There is no Galaxy without Space |
Germany, France, UK, Netherlands |
Cancer Data, Galaxy, Human Copy Number Variation, Single Cell Omics |
Next level of reproducible, comparable and integrable Metabolomics. |
France, EMBL-EBI, Germany, Czech Republic, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, UK, Switzerland |
Food and Nutrition, Galaxy, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Research Data Management, Single Cell Omics, Systems Biology, Toxicology |
Biodiversity, food security and pathogens
Project title |
ELIXIR Nodes |
ELIXIR Communities |
Odyssey: Connecting molecular and geographical biodiversity data |
Greece, Norway |
Biodiversity |
HARVEST: Handling and alignment of plant Research FAIRification - value through the use of ELIXIR data Standards and Tools |
Germany, France, EMBL-EBI, UK, Netherlands |
Plant Sciences |
FAIRyMAGs - Optimising Metagenomics Assembled Genomes building: Workflow finalisation, training material development, real data evaluation, and resource allocation tool creation |
Germany, France, Italy, EMBL-EBI |
Galaxy, Microbiome |
E-PAN: Enhancing pan-genome analysis in plants |
Belgium, SIovenia, Germany, UK, Portugal |
Plant Sciences |
Human data and translational research
Project title |
ELIXIR Nodes |
ELIXIR Communities |
Theme |
FAIR-FEGA: Accelerating high-quality FAIR data deposition in Federated EGA |
Switzerland, EMBL-EBI, Spain, France, Norway, Portugal |
Cancer Data, Federated Human Data |
Data Deposition |
FHDportal: Open national submission and access portal for federated human data |
Switzerland, Finland, Luxemburg, UK |
Federated Human Data, Human Copy Number Variation |
Data Deposition |
Leveraging federated learning and RO-Crates for human genomic data analysis and provenance tracking |
Belgium, Spain, France, Portugal, UK |
Cancer Data, Federated Human Data |
Federated Data Analysis |
Empowering users: Orchestrating sensitive data access for interactive federated analysis in virtual research environments |
Belgium, Germany, Spain, Norway |
Cancer Data, Federated Human Data, Galaxy |
Federated Data Analysis |
Find out more
- Read about the projects
- Scientific Programme 2024-28 | Executive Summary
- Commissioned Services webpages