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A two-year project to integrate European human genomic data from different sources has been awarded funding by ELIXIR. The project, called FEGA-Connect, aims to develop solutions to link multi-omic sensitive data deposition databases, biobanks and derived knowledge resources. It is

ELIXIR has invested a total of 1.6 million euros in 12 projects to address the scientific priorities of the Scientific Programme 2024-28. The projects form part of three larger initiatives, called Commissioned Services, which support activities that connect experts in

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...

Dublin, with its seminal early contributions to bioinformatics, served as an ideal host for the ninth ELIXIR All Hands meeting. The event brought 382 in-person guests and 114 remote attendees to the Dublin Convention Centre between 5-8 June. An important

A 24-month project involving ten ELIXIR Nodes has led to improved standardisation of the storage and analysis of human copy number variation (hCNV) data. hCNVs are repeated sections of the genome which vary between individuals and have been found to

As a distributed infrastructure, ELIXIR’s training provision is spread throughout ELIXIR’s 22 Nodes. The training aims to enhance data and software skills in the life sciences, for example building expertise in data management, tools, workflows and standards. There are many

As a publicly funded organisation, it is important that ELIXIR provides evidence of its public value. There are a number of challenges involved in what may seem a straightforward task, including the distributed nature of ELIXIR and a range of

ELIXIR’s eighth All Hands meeting was a welcome return to an in-person gathering after two years of virtual events. The meeting was hosted by ELIXIR Netherlands in the riverside Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and ran for four days between 7

The European Commission (EC) has released an expert report on Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data during the COVID-19 response. The report, Maximising investments in health research: FAIR data for a coordinated COVID-19 response, summarises the results of three

As part of ELIXIR’s Strategic Implementation Study on container services, a workshop was held to discuss the current challenges and possible solutions to improving the movement of life science data and how it is accessed and managed. Containers help solve

ELIXIR has provided €5.1 million in funding to 29 new projects that launched 1 January 2022. These projects, called ‘Commissioned Services’ are varied in scope and theme, but all aim to provide funding and a method to advance ELIXIR services

A new EU funded project coordinated by ELIXIR has been launched today. BY-COVID is a €12million Horizon Europe project striving to tackle the data challenges that can hinder effective pandemic response. This interdisciplinary project involves 53 project partners from across

Seven new Community-led Implementation Studies were launched on 1 June 2021 covering a diverse range of topics across a variety of life science disciplines. Collectively these projects were awarded €1.5 million, funded through ELIXIR’s Core budget, and will run until

In December 2020, Rhea, Reactome and Cellosaurus became ELIXIR Core Data Resources, receiving ELIXIR’s highest quality, sustainability and reliability label for databases. Becoming a Core Data Resource ELIXIR utilised an independent panel of reviewers to scrutinise and evaluate all candidate

The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted the need to understand all aspects of coronavirus biology, including their prevalence and diversity in animal hosts and the environment. Given the pressing need for greater knowledge around this topic, researchers within the Microbiome

ELIXIR activities to support COVID-19 research featured recently in several media outlets. The ELIXIR Director, Niklas Blomberg, has been quoted in the European Union's Horizon Magazine, the UK-based Laboratory News, the EU-focussed Science|Business, and the global HealthcareITNews. The EU's Horizon

Global research community meets online to develop tools for COVID-19 analysis Over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians joined forces in the COVID-19 virtual Biohackathon to develop new tools for working with the COVID-19 data. The outcomes of the event

ELIXIR welcomed two external experts on entrepreneurship and bio data, Hannes Rothe and Sirkka Jarvenpaa, to Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, to deliver a talk and discussion on the value of public data for entrepreneurs in the life sciences. Presenting to a near

ELIXIR has published a paper in Nature Reviews Genetics today that explores how European research infrastructures can be leveraged to facilitate transnational access to at least one million human genomes. This is building on the recently declared ‘European ‘1+ Million