EXCELERATE funding (2015-2019) will help ELIXIR coordinate and extend national and international data resources to ensure the delivery of world-leading life-science data services. It will support a pan-European training programme, anchored in national infrastructures, to increase bioinformatics capacity and competency. It will also provide efficiencies in management and operation throughout the infrastructure, which is distributed amongst 17 countries.
The tasks in EXCELERATE are divided into Work Packages (WPs).
Work Packages
- WP1: Tools Interoperability and Service Registry
- WP2: Infrastructure for Community-led Benchmarking
- WP3: Data Resources and Services
- WP4: Compute, Data access and Exchange Services
- WP5: The ELIXIR Interoperability Backbone
- WP6: Marine Metagenomic Infrastructure as Driver for Research and Industrial Innovation
- WP7: Integrating Genomic and Phenotypic Data for Crop and Forest Plants
- WP8: ELIXIR Infrastructure for Rare Disease Research
- WP9: Secure Archiving, Dissemination and Analysis of Human Access-controlled Data
- WP10: ELIXIR Node Capacity Building Programme
- WP11: ELIXIR Training Programme
- WP12: Excellence in ELIXIR Management and Operations
- WP13: Communications, Industry and Community Engagement
- WP14: Ethics requirements
Dedicated use cases defined in close partnership with diverse research communities, will help ELIXIR grow in keeping with the needs of scientists working on rare diseases, biomedical and human genomics, marine and plant sciences and other specialized areas (WPs 6 - 9 above). This will ensure that ELIXIR’s services for data, tools, interoperability, compute, training and industry support are rooted in user needs, and can deliver benefits to existing and future research projects.
ELIXIR was invited to apply to a dedicated call within Horizon 2020 following the ESFRI and European Council decision in 2014 to categorize ELIXIR as one of Europe’s three priority new Research Infrastructures. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE represents ELIXIR’s submission to this Call.
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Partners
Belgium
- Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB)
Czech Republic
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Masaryk University
- CESNET
Denmark
- Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
- Aarhus University (AU)
- University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
Estonia
- Tartu University
France
- CNRS
- INRA
- Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD)
- Institute Pasteur
Finland
- CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd
Greece
- Biomedical Science Research Center "Alexander Fleming"
- FORTH
- Athena RIC
Israel
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Italy
- CNR
The Netherlands
- Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre
Portugal
- Gulbenkian Foundation
- INESC ID Lisbon
- Instituto de Biologia Experiment al e Tecnologica (iBET)
- Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR)
Spain
- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
- Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
- University of Malaga
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
- Pompeu Fabra University
- Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG)
- Fundacio Institut mar d’Investigacions Mediques (IMIM)
Norway
- University of Bergen
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- University of Tromso
- University of Oslo
Slovenia
- University of Ljubljana
- National institute of Biology
Sweden
- Linköping University
Switzerland
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
United Kingdom
- University of Oxford
- Earlham Institute
- University of Manchester
EMBL
- The European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE is funded by the European Commission within the Research Infrastructures programme of Horizon 2020, grant agreement number 676559