Press Releases
Article in Nature News & Comment
An article in Nature today outlines the challenges of handling large volumes of data in biology. It describes ELIXIR as "a project to help scientists across Europe safeguard and share their data, and to support existing resources such as...
The pdf version of the new ELIXIR brochure is now available here.
On 30-31 May, technical experts from emerging ELIXIR Nodes came together to form ELIXIR’s first Technical Coordinator’s group. As a distributed e-infrastructure, many of the key challenges involved in establishing and running ELIXIR services are by their nature technical. The group discussed...
The ESFRI Implementation Group (IG), a body established by ESFRI to identify and analyse the best practice and bottlenecks in the efficient implementation of ESFRI Research Infrastructures, has published its 2012 report. In the report, the Implementation Group report considers ELIXIR to be '...
ELIXIR took several important steps forward at its Interim Board meeting in Copenhagen on 22-23 April 2013.
Most notably, ELIXIR Member States agreed the final version of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA), which is the permanent legal basis for ELIXIR. The ECA will now undergo a...
The Spring edition of ELIXIR's Informed is available here. To register to subscribe automatically, please sign up...
Representatives of ELIXIR Nodes came together in Noordwijk, Netherlands, for a successful two-day workshop on 21-22 March. The event was organised by NBIC, which is leading the Dutch ELIXIR Node.
Over 50 participants came together to discuss several...
A vacancy is currently open for the post of Personal Assistant to the ELIXIR Director. The closing date for the post is 21 April 2013.
BioMedBridges, which is coordinated by ELIXIR, held its first Annual General Meeting in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 11-12 March. Further information on the event, including links to the presentations, is available ...
Bioinformatics has been given a strong endorsement in a recent Expert Group assesment on proposed Integrating Activity (I3) topics. I3s are European Commission-funded projects that provide funding to open...
