ELIXIR Position Paper on the EU’s Future Framework Programme for Research (Horizon Europe)

ELIXIR is an active participant in the Horizon 2020 programme, coordinating the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE and CORBEL grants, and partnering in several others including ENVRIPlus, EMBRIC, AARC2 and EOSCPilot. These grants are funded through the Research Infrastructures programme within Horizon 2020, though partners in ELIXIR are active in many other areas including Health, Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation and also the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (IMI JU).

ELIXIR Report: Public data resources as business model for SMEs

This ELIXIR report describes companies whose business model is fundamentally based on selling services on top of public bioinformatics data. It presents the typical business model of these companies and the particular way in which they add value to public data through customisation, aggregation and through facilitating the discovery of public data. Furthermore, it describes the relationship these companies have with ELIXIR Core Data Resources, and the direct way in which they generate revenue, such as through consultancy services or developing bespoke software.

Developing learning paths for users of ELIXIR services

The aim of this Implementation Study is to guide ELIXIR users to identify those competencies they require and the suitable courses to acquire such competencies to be able to carry out their daily work more effectively. The Study will establish three Work Packages (WP) bridging efforts across ELIXR Platforms, key bioinformatics and data-science initiatives, and Industry partners, to meet Industry needs.

Architecture for Software Containers at ELIXIR and its use by EXCELERATE Use Case Communities

The aim of this implementation study is to provide a stable infrastructure for unifying software containers solutions within ELIXIR. This infrastructure will provide an access point for end-users to find, generate, store, monitor, and even benchmark software containers solutions. Hardware infrastructure will be provided by an ELIXIR Node from the ELIXIR Compute Platform for software containers deployment while ELIXIR-ES will provide the backup system using EUDAT protocols and infrastructures.

Compatible Cloud Analysis Platform

We propose to reduce complexity for users by providing a Task Execution Platform (compatible with standards emerging from the GA4GH) that can encompass distributed sites in the ELIXIR Compute Platform with appropriate management interfaces that can abstract the user away from some of this complexity. Experience has shown that the acquisition and access of cloud resources can have a high overhead for end-users, e.g. finding the ‘right’ cloud service provider, negotiating or paying for access, porting your application to that cloud service provider etc.

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