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ELIXIR maps for the first time how small and medium companies rely on public bioinformatics data for their business ELIXIR has today published a report that describes the use of public bioinformatics data by Small to Medium-sized Companies (SMEs) in

The Beacon Project has released new Beacon API v0.4 specifications to provide greater search functions and richer search results. These API specifications are available through the new Beacon website ( http://beacon-project.io) which will provide up-to-date support and regular updates on

The ELIXIR Data Platform is pleased to announce six new Implementation Studies for 2018. The six projects were selected via a rigorous peer-review process by a panel of independent experts in bioinformatics and bioinformatics service provision. The reviews were benchmarked

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

The UK’s Microbiology Society, one of Europe’s largest microbiology membership charities for scientists, released a policy report on 15 November summarising the challenges in microbiome research and recommendations for overcoming them. One such challenge is organising and sharing the data

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

ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) have agreed on a strategy to guide their collaboration in developing and promoting standards and frameworks for the responsible sharing and reuse of genomics data. The Collaboration Strategy builds on

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

We are pleased to announce the appointment of John Hancock as ELIXIR Communities and Services Coordinator. John will act as a point of contact between the ELIXIR Hub and ELIXIR Nodes, ensuring that activities and services in ELIXIR Nodes are

To benefit from the big data revolution in life sciences, researchers need to learn how to access the data and turn them into insights. Researchers also need to know how to teach new users in bioinformatics tools and resources so

The 5th “International Summer School on Rare Disease and Orphan Drug Registries” and the ELIXIR Netherlands Node’s 4th “Bring Your Own Data” (BYOD) workshop united in Rome 18-22 Sept. to help attendees transform their data sets into Findable, Accessible, Interoperable

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

Microbiome, Food and Nutrition datasets have expanded rapidly in recent years, following advances in DNA sequencing and the rise of shotgun metagenomics and metabolomics. To help companies access and take advantage of this wealth of data, ELIXIR organised a two-day

Following agreement with the Heads of Nodes committee, ELIXIR will continue its four current Use Cases — Marine Metagenomics, Plant Sciences, Rare Diseases and Human Data — and establish three new ones covering Proteomics, Metabolomics and Galaxy. Starting in 2019

ELIXIR is pleased to announce the appointment of Jerry Lanfear as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO). As CTO, Jerry will lead the design and implementation of an ELIXIR-wide technical strategy and oversee developments across the five ELIXIR Platforms (Data

ELIXIR has stated today how its infrastructure will help researchers to make published life-science data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). This statement also voices ELIXIR’s commitment to enabling the availability of FAIR data within the framework of the European

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

ELIXIR today publishes the initial list of ELIXIR Core Data Resources - data resources of fundamental importance to the life science community and the long-term preservation of biological data. The ELIXIR Core Data Resources serve as a mark of the

A new paper published in the ELIXIR F1000 Research channel encourages developers, research institutes and companies to adopt four best practices for open source development of life science research software. The recommendations provide practical suggestions based on the Open Source