Denmark has today become the eighth country to ratify the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA), joining the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Norway, the Netherlands and EMBL. The ECA provides the legal basis for ELIXIR and ratification means that Denmark is now a full participating member.
Denmark’s ELIXIR Node is coordinated by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and involves academic partners including the University of Copenhagen, the University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University and companies such as Lundbeck and Novo Nordisk. The major focus of the Danish ELIXIR Node is the provision of bioinformatics tools and in particular the interoperability and integration of these with other bioinformatics services. One of the main services delivered will be the creation and operation of a comprehensive tools registry.
Further information is available in Danish from the website of DTU, the coordinator of the Danish ELIXIR Node
(L-R) Robert-Jan Smits (European Commission), Troels Tvedegaard Rasmussen, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, and Søren Brunak, current ELIXIR Interim Chair, at the ELIXIR launch event