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Over the past five years, the Biocuration, FAIR Training and RDA Activities Focus Groups have played an important role in raising the visibility and significance of their areas within ELIXIR. As these groups draw to a close, we mark their

The EU-funded ELIXIR-STEERS project has released its first policy brief, Strategies for Enhancing the Credit and Recognition of Research Artefacts, outlining recommendations to enhance the credit and recognition of non-traditional research artefacts within European research assessment systems. These artefacts, such

The ELIXIR Board is inviting candidates from life science companies to join the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee (IAC). Taking into consideration the current distribution of expertise within the committee, applications are particularly encouraged from experts in the fields of life

From 20 to 24 July 2025, the ELIXIR team was in Liverpool, UK for ISMB/ECCB 2025 with over 2,000 bioinformaticians from around the world attending. As a sponsor of the conference, ELIXIR had a dedicated booth and hosted a track

On 17 June 2025, ELIXIR held the fifth ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum (EBIF) in London, UK. This year’s EBIF brought together 60 bioinformaticians from academia and industry to discuss challenges in federated life science data analysis. The first session focused

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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