News

ELIXIR launches a three-year collaboration strategy with the Australian BioCommons research infrastructure Signed on 9 April 2020, the collaboration strategy between ELIXIR and the Australian BioCommons seeks to create a cooperative plan to exploit international synergies between the two research

This Thursday, ELIXIR hosts the virtual kick-off meeting of the B1MG project (Beyond One Million Genomes), a new ELIXIR-coordinated project funded by Horizon 2020 The project’s purpose is to support the implementation of the declaration of cooperation ‘ Towards access

The ELIXIR FAIR Training working group publishes a paper in PLoS Computational Biology — ‘10 Simple Rules for Making training materials FAIR.’ The collaborative effort, which started at the ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2018, has involved a multitude of experts from

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

The 2020 ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum — What’s brewing in bioinformatics? Online events have always been an option. However, with the current travel restrictions, virtual conferences have become an opportunity to explore what will most likely be the future —

Today, ELIXIR published Horizon Europe Mission factsheets presenting how its efforts can be used by researchers working in three of the proposed Missions of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme: Cancer Soil health and food Healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland

Over the last two months, ELIXIR Nodes have reacted swiftly and promptly to support researchers in their combined efforts against the pandemic. We recently listed the bioinformatics services within ELIXIR available to researchers to assist all COVID-19 projects. In addition

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

The global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to many organisations and individual bioinformaticians creating a plethora of data visualisation tools, dashboards and phylogeny maps in an attempt to share accurate data, speed up research efforts, and ultimately find solutions to

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus highlights the need for an open analytics environment so that the global research community can collaborate on developing effective countermeasures. (27 February, Hinxton, UK) Open access data and open, reproducible analytics are crucial

Galaxy Europe ( https://usegalaxy.eu) provides a free data analysis environment for the growing number of life science researchers. Less than two years from its launch, the platform boasts over 12,000 unique users who executed more than six million analysis jobs

From accelerating to converging After the completion of the successful ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project, which provided ELIXIR with solid foundations, today ELIXIR kicks off a new project to support the provision of data management across Europe. ELIXIR-CONVERGE, a €5 million three-year H2020

We are pleased to announce six new ELIXIR Platform Leads who will be taking up their roles from January 2020. We welcome the new additions, and thank those departing for their contributions over the years. Each of ELIXIR’s five Platforms

Researchers from industry and academia gathered in Milan, Italy on the 27- 28 November 2019 to discuss challenges and opportunities in data management in the life sciences at the latest ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum. Over 70 participants attended the

Over 150 bioinformaticians, trainers, software developers and life science enthusiasts travelled from 21 countries across four continents to gather together in Paris, France, for BioHackathon Europe. Participants spent a week in November working collaboratively on over 30 projects aimed at

de.NBI - the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure , which acts as ELIXIR Germany - organised over 250 training courses between 2015-2019 with more than 5,200 participants from Germany and beyond. This is one of the main findings from a

Building on the success of the 2018 ELIXIR Implementation Study on BioContainers, an open-source registry for over 81,000 life science research related containerised tools, ELIXIR has launched three follow-up projects to progress and maintain the work in this valuable area