ELIXIR Portugal is a consortium of eighteen Portuguese research institutions which are part of the national biological information network, BioData.pt. Like ELIXIR itself, the Portuguese Node is organised as a decentralised network of specialised centres, under a common hardware and software infrastructure, and with shared training and industry/entrepreneurship programmes.
ELIXIR Norway is coordinated by the University of Bergen and includes activities at the University of Oslo, UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at Ås.
Israel is home to very active and highly collaborative bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology communities, and therefore constitutes a hub of excellent science.
The Italian Node is organized as a Joint Research Unit (JRU), coordinated by the National Research Council (CNR), and currently includes 28 partners, among which are several universities, research institutes and public Cloud and High Performance Computing (HPC) providers.
Thee French scientific community has set up a national infrastructure of services in bioinformatics called Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB). IFB/ELIXIR-FR is on the roadmap of the French Ministry of Research as the reference institute of bioinformatics and as the French ELIXIR Node.
The ELIXIR Node in Finland is hosted at CSC - IT Center for Science. Node provides cloud and storage resource and training for life sciences, with integrated computational access to very large biological data resources.
Examples of life science use cases support by ELIXIR Finland : http://www.elixir-finland.org/en/publications-and-reports/
All CSC services: http://research.csc.fi
Estonian ELIXIR Node is organised by the University of Tartu. Other partners are Tallinn University of Technology, National Institute for Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn University and Estonian University of Life Sciences.
ELIXIR Estonia focuses on:
The EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is an academic research institute based in the UK, and is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Established in 1994, EMBL-EBI grew out of EMBL’s commitment to making biological data and information accessible to life scientists in all disciplines.
EMBL-EBI serves the scientific community by providing freely available bioinformatics resources, promoting basic research, providing training to scientists at all levels and disseminating cutting-edge technologies to the academic community and industry.
The overall purpose of the Danish ELIXIR Node of bioinformatics tool interoperability and integration is to address the main problems in tool utilisation experienced currently by the life sciences community. We propose to focus on the following key services: