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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

ELIXIR adopts overarching policy for ethical and legal aspects of accessing and re-using sensitive life-science data Clear ELSI governance is an integral part of the provision of ELIXIR Services, so it is a major milestone that ELIXIR’s ELSI Policy was

The ELIXIR Board held its autumn meeting this week on 21-22 November in Hinxton, UK. The main outcomes of the meeting were the approval of ELIXIR’s Work Plan and budget for 2017, a batch of ELIXIR Implementation Studies for 2017

ELIXIR has just published its Handbook of Operations. The Handbook acts as a single reference point for the governance, policies and guidelines of ELIXIR. For each of these three areas, the Handbook provides links to all the relevant documents. See

Serena Scollen, ELIXIR's Head of Human Genomics and Translational Data, presents ELIXIR's Human Data activities in an interview for DNAdigest. Serena talks about the opportunities and challenges in data driven biomedical research and about ELIXIR's plans and activities to support

ELIXIR has opened the process for Nodes to propose databases as ELIXIR Core Data Resources - resources of fundamental importance to the wide life-science community and the long-term preservation of biological data. ELIXIR Core Data Resources will act as flagships

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

ELIXIR has kicked off three new Implementation Studies this September. Alongside four ongoing projects, they make up ELIXIR’s current portfolio of Implementation Studies, which involve nine ELIXIR Nodes. The three new Implementation studies cover the Interoperability and Data Platforms and

ELIXIR has today published its International Strategy, which sets out ELIXIR's role on the global stage. The strategy defines ELIXIR's objectives in international collaboration and will ensure that ELIXIR engages with major international initiatives in bioinformatics and key countries outside

The CORBEL Open Call invites researchers to apply to access technologies and services from more than 15 facilities from eight different research infrastructures across Europe. Selected projects will be allocated to so-called Access Tracks and gain unprecedented opportunities to utilise

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 Hub is pleased to announce the appointment of Pablo Román García as its Industry and International Officer. Pablo will lead the implementation of ELIXIR's industry strategy, run the ELIXIR Innovation and SME programme and support outreach to users

Germany today became the latest country to join ELIXIR, following the ratification of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). By joining ELIXIR, the BMBF will increase the visibility and competitiveness of German research

The ELIXIR Compute Platform has published a list of compute services offered by ELIXIR Nodes. It covers High Performance Computing facilities, Cloud environments and Big Data services to enable researchers to process, store, transfer and access large volumes of data

Ireland today became the latest country to join ELIXIR, following the ratification of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. ELIXIR’s Membership now stands at 19, and set to expand further in coming months when

The ELIXIR Hub is delighted that Serena Scollen and Norman Morrison have joined the team. Serena Scollen Serena takes up the post of ELIXIR Head of Human Genomics and Translational Data. She will lead the development and implementation of an

EMBL-EBI will train researchers from Masaryk University (MU, part of ELIXIR Czech Republic) in the annotation of data in the Protein Databank in Europe (PDBe). The goal is to build local capacity for annotation of PDBe data in the Czech

The ELIXIR 2015 Annual Report covers the major events and activities in 2015 and shows ELIXIR's progress against the priorities in its Scientific Programme 2014-2018. Expanding service delivery In 2015 ELIXIR entered a new phase of implementation, increasing its capacities

Luxembourg today became the latest country to join ELIXIR, following the ratification of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by its Ministry of Higher Education and Research. ELIXIR’s membership now stands at 18, with a further two countries – Ireland and Greece

In light of the decision by the UK to leave the European Union (EU), ELIXIR would like to clarify that it is not legally part of the EU: the result, therefore, does not affect UK membership of ELIXIR, nor have