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The first ever hybrid BioHackathon Europe was held 8 - 12 November in Barcelona, Spain and welcomed 154 face-to-face and 172 virtual participants. Working collaboratively over tables, screens and time zones on 37 projects, new data, features and friendships were

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

Today, the ELIXIR-CONVERGE project releases one of its main outputs — the RDMkit. Developed and managed by those who work daily with life science data, this research data management kit provides a comprehensive guide with best practices applicable to projects

2020, an unprecedented and surprisingly successful year for BioHackathon Europe Over 300 people attended the 2020 BioHackathon Europe, an intensive week of hacking with experts from all backgrounds; bioinformaticians, software developers and trainers gathered online to improve bioinformatics tools and

An ELIXIR Spain platform allows researchers to browse SARS-CoV-2 variability at the genome, amino acid, structural and motif level. When responding to a health crisis, data play a critical role in identifying drug targets, vaccines or disease-related symptoms, and understanding

ELIXIR Nodes contribute to the development of a knowledgebase of SARS-CoV-2 virus host-pathogen interactions. Announced last week in Scientific data, the COVID-19 Disease Map is an international effort to organise the molecular processes underlying the virus-host interactions in COVID-19. Based

Marta Ferri Peradalta completed her BSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Barcelona and followed her passion for Bioinformatics with an MSc at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Immediately after her postgraduate studies, she was granted with an

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (ELIXIR-Spain) shares its experience with the intern, Marta Ferri, who helped to propel the Beacon v.2 development this year. The Beacon project was born at the heart of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

The ELIXIR Node in Spain has created a new COVID-19 tool for 3DBIONOTES-WS Today, the Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), part of the ELIXIR Spanish Node, launches the 3DBIONOTES-COVID19 tool. The resource is integrated into 3DBIONOTES-WS, a web-based application

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

Results from a long-term survey and review of the ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forums - specialised events for life science companies and academics - have revealed an overwhelmingly positive impact of the events, with over 93% of participants stating they

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

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

ELIXIR is partner in eTRANSAFE, a new €40 million project funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), which began in September. The five-year project aims to develop an advanced data integration infrastructure and new computational methods to improve security in

Over 80 participants from industry and academia gathered in Barcelona on 6-7 June for the ELIXIR Innovation and SME forum. Hosted by ELIXIR Spain, the two-day event showcased successful companies making use of public bioinformatics resources, and presented free bioinformatics

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

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

ELIXIR Spain's Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG, National Genome Analysis Centre) has been awarded ISO 17025:2005 certificate for its Next Generation Sequencing Platform. ISO 17025:2005 is an international standard for laboratories that specifies the general requirements for the competence