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FAIRsharing ( https://fairsharing.org) presents its community approach to mapping and tracking the development of data standards and policies across scientific fields. In an article published today in Nature Biotechnology, the team behind FAIRsharing, along with key representatives of its user

Key element in long term and consistent data citation and identification EMBL-EBI has established Identifiers.org as a stable system for identification and citation of life science data, using Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). Identifiers.org not only enables researchers to easily reference their

The challenge of enabling optimal use and reuse of public research data, tools and training materials is a complex one and involves multiple stakeholders: consumers and users of data in academia and industry, operators of public databases and infrastructure service

With every new generation of sequencers, mass spectrometers, and other lab equipment producing richer and cheaper data, even a small biology lab can become a big-data generator. With this flood of data, finding the right dataset or the right analysis

Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone is co-Principal investigator in three of the twelve projects awarded prestigious USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Commons funding, announced last week. Over the next 4 years the awardees will work together, as the NIH Data

The open source ISA framework and tools, which help to manage an increasingly diverse set of life science, environmental and biomedical experiments (see ISA commons), are being used by NASA for its GeneLab platform, which expands scientists' access to research

ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, GOBLET and the Galaxy Training Network, organised a joint hackathon on Galaxy training material re-use in Cambridge, UK, on 22-24 May. Galaxy is a well-established web platform for data analysis in bioinformatics; the three-day event brought together people actively

Today, the UK Government triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and formally launched the process to leave the European Union. ELIXIR would like to clarify that this process and its outcome will not affect the legal or organisational status

Guidelines recently published by Google for the discovery of science datasets help data providers to describe their datasets in a structured way using schema.org, enabling internet search engines to find and index rich metadata to better present scientific datasets. The

ELIXIR-UK, the UK Node in ELIXIR, has completed a reorganisation to better represent the activities of the UK bioinformatics community within ELIXIR and to bring the benefit of participation to a wider range of UK institutions. ELIXIR-UK has extended its

The ELIXIR UK Node is pleased to announce the appointment of Gabriella Rustici as its new Deputy Head of Node. Dr Rustici is Bioinformatics Training Manager for the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Cambridge and leads on

Following a pre-release in April 2016, ELIXIR UK released in July the production version of ELIXIR’s Training e-Support System, TeSS. The portal collects, disseminates and organises information about bioinformatics training from ELIXIR Nodes and various third-party providers. TeSS currently contains

The ELIXIR Training Platform organised its first Train the Trainer (TtT) at the University of Cambridge, UK, on 10-11 May. The goal of the TtT workshops is to establish and develop an pool of ELIXIR trainers to run effective training

Representatives from ELIXIR UK, EMBL-EBI, the ELIXIR Hub, bioCADDIE, BioSchemas and the W3C HCLS Community Profile met with Google last week in London to discuss how to describe datasets using schema.org. Finding datasets, and understanding their content, is a challenging

ELIXIR Training Platform and GOBLET (Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training ) organised a joint workshop for metagenomics training materials re-use, on 7-8 April 2016 at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, UK. The aim was to collect a comprehensive set

ELIXIR-UK and FAIRDOM ( fair-dom.org) jointly hosted a Samples Club BYOD (Bring Your Own Data) workshop on 21-23 March 2016, Manchester, UK. The workshop brought together representatives from ELIXIR-UK, ELIXIR-SE, ELIXIR-FR, ELIXIR-NL and EMBL-EBI with an interest in sample metadata

The ELIXIR Hub is pleased to announce that Montse Gonzalez has joined the team as ELIXIR Technical Project Officer. Montse will set up and lead ELIXIR's quality assurance processes, including the development of key performance indicators for ELIXIR services, their

ELIXIR-UK and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities), in collaboration with ELIXIR Finland and ELIXIR Czech Republic, organised a workshop for service and resource providers on Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI). Held in Manchester, UK, on 15-16 March

Following the ELIXIR Software and Data Carpentry Instructor training in Lausanne, first six ELIXIR trainers have become certified Software and Data Carpentry Instructors. The Instructor training took place in January 2016 at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland as part

To expand its remit and to better represent the broad base of UK bioinformatics, ELIXIR-UK is inviting all existing and prospective participants in ELIXIR-UK to put forward their resources or tools as part of the UK Node in ELIXIR. The