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ELIXIR has launched a new Cancer Data Community to enhance cancer data accessibility, quality and interoperability. The Community brings together experts across ELIXIR with external partners to coordinate activities and build on ELIXIR’s existing cancer portfolio. Cancer research is highly

ELIXIR Sweden were perfect hosts for the tenth annual gathering of the ELIXIR community, held in the splendid surroundings of the historic Uppsala University Main Building. All Hands 2024 brought together 371 in-person attendees and 160 remote participants to share

ELIXIR has released its tenth Annual Report, summarising the achievements of the 22 Nodes in the final year of the 2019-2023 Scientific Programme...

ELIXIR has published version 7 of its Handbook of Operations. The Handbook acts as a single reference point for ELIXIR’s operational structure, including standard procedures and processes. Version 1 was released in 2016, and this latest version is the first

A new ELIXIR Focus Group has been created in the area of domestic animal genomics and phenomics research. The group will promote and align tools, databases, standards and best practices, and consider the case for the formation of an ELIXIR

ELIXIR has announced over 350,000 Euros to support two key life science “Infrastructure Services” from April 2024 until the end of 2026. Infrastructure Service funding is reserved for stable ELIXIR services with activities such as operations, maintenance and governance which

ELIXIR welcomes three new Focus Groups: Learning Paths, Professionalising Careers in Research Infrastructures and Pathogens Data. ELIXIR Focus Groups are time-limited groups bringing people together around a particular topic, typically to address emerging areas of interest. Focus Groups are open

Two new Communities have been formed in ELIXIR: Research Data Management (RDM) and Microbiome. ELIXIR Communities bring together experts across ELIXIR Nodes and external partners to coordinate activities within specific areas. The addition of two Communities brings the number to

Today, 1 March 2024, the ELIXIR Hub welcomes Tim Hubbard in his new role as ELIXIR Director. Andy Smith remains Interim Director until 31 May, with responsibilities gradually transitioning to Tim. Tim joins ELIXIR from King's College London where he

An ELIXIR-funded collaboration with the Bio Network for Training (BioNT) has resulted in a report on digital skills training demand and guidelines covering training delivery. These outputs will help target future bioinformatics training to areas of greatest need and boost

ELIXIR has launched eight projects addressing the scientific and technological ambitions of its new Scientific Programme for 2024 to 2028. Further projects covering the Programme’s Node and people development objectives will be launched later this year. The projects were launched

Today, ELIXIR announces the start of the EU-funded ELIXIR-STEERS project, a three-year initiative with a budget of €4M. The project is a collaboration between all ELIXIR Nodes, encompassing 36 institutes across 23 countries, plus EMBL-EBI. It aims to enhance large-scale

Autumn 2023 was busy for the ELIXIR industry programme: the annual ELIXIR Bioinformatics and Industry Forum (EBIF) was held in London in November and ELIXIR presented at two industry conferences, BioTechX and Bio-IT World. The main focus of the events

Following release of the ELIXIR Scientific Programme 2024-28, co-leads for two of the three scientific priority areas have been announced. The third priority, human data and translational research, is to be led by the ELIXIR Hub. The three scientific priority

ELIXIR’s performance has been commended in a monitoring exercise associated with its ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) landmark status. ESFRI landmark status is conferred on reference research infrastructures considered pillars in the European Research Area landscape who offer

ELIXIR has announced the life science data and interoperability resources joining its prestigious list of Core Data Resources, ELIXIR Deposition Databases, and Recommended Interoperability Resources. ELIXIR Core Data Resources are European life science data resources (deposition archives and knowledge bases)

ELIXIR, the European life science data infrastructure, is ten years old this month. The infrastructure was launched on 18 December 2013 following the ratification of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by five countries and EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory). Over this

ELIXIR has published its new Scientific Programme, setting out the European life science data infrastructure’s vision for the coming five years. The Scientific Programme forms ELIXIR’s strategy and sets out its ambitions and goals until 2028. The ELIXIR Programme is

The ELIXIR Board has appointed Tim Hubbard as the next ELIXIR Director. Tim brings a wealth of scientific, technical and management experience and is currently Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King's College London

Bringing 350 bioinformaticians together, BioHackathon Europe 2023 kicked off on 30 October 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. Over the week, participants onsite and online worked collaboratively on 35 bioinformatics projects, ranging from genomic and health data to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable