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European infrastructures lay the foundation for secure access to genomics data
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
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Orphadata selected as ELIXIR Core Data Resource
Orphadata, a platform to aggregate rare disease datasets from Orphanet database, has joined the list of ELIXIR Core Data Resources, a set of data resources of fundamental importance for life science research. The ELIXIR Core Data Resources serve as a
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GA4GH and ELIXIR Release V1.0.0 of Beacon API with increased security measures
HINXTON, UK (19 October 2018) — ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) have announced the release of the first genomic data interoperability standard from the GA4GH 2018 Strategic Roadmap. The Beacon API v1 is a data
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ELIXIR event equips companies to advance personalised rare disease treatment
Developments in genomics have already fed into the reality of personalised medicine and faster, more effective treatments for rare diseases. National governments and companies are also making investments in data-driven innovation that would facilitate these prospects. To help companies access
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ELIXIR Beacons to facilitate sharing of genomics data in Europe
Scientists across the world can now discover and query data from genomics projects in six different countries in Europe. This has been a success of the ELIXIR collaboration with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) on the Beacon
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ELIXIR and GA4GH Beacon Team Up to Advance Genomic Data Sharing
TORONTO, CANADA & HINXTON, UNITED KINGDOM — The Beacon Project of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for life-science data, announced today an expansion of their partnership to develop the Beacon project that
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ELIXIR Technical hackathon: promoting exchange of information about bioinformatics tools and workflows
ELIXIR France and Denmark organised hackaton “Tools, Workflows and Workbenches”, to to promote collaboration and technical developments between developers from ELIXIR Tools & Data Services Registry, Galaxy, Taverna, Arvados, CWL, ReGaTE and EDAM ontology, and Galaxy instance providers from ELIXIR
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ELIXIR Channel on F1000R publishes two new articles
ELIXIR Reports, the ELIXIR channel on the F1000 Research publication platform now includes two new articles, presenting activities of ELIXIR France and ELIXIR Netherlands. The first article by a group of authors from ELIXIR France, presents BioShaDock, a community driven
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