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Croatia has joined ELIXIR as an Observer, following approval by the ELIXIR Board on 4 November 2025. As an Observer, the Croatian bioinformatics community can strengthen its collaboration with other ELIXIR Nodes and continue the path towards full membership, expected

Today, a global community of hackers gathers in Berlin for the start of ELIXIR’s eighth annual BioHackathon Europe. Since the first event, inspired by the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) BioHackathon in Japan, over 2200 participants have gathered together

ELIXIR, Euro-BioImaging, Instruct-ERIC and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have joined forces to establish a candidate European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) node, as part of the newly formed EOSC Federation. The four organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding

ELIXIR has launched an AI Ecosystem Focus Group bringing together Node experts to address growing challenges within the scientific artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) field, particularly the need for infrastructure harmonisation. The group follows on from the successful

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

Call closed Industry Advisory Committee Applications to join the ELIXIR IAC are now closed. See below for background on the role and appointment process. The ELIXIR Board is inviting candidates from life science companies to join the ELIXIR Industry Advisory

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