The ELIXIR Board held it's seventh meeting last week on 24-25 April in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The main items approved included the updated Work Plan and Budget for the ELIXIR Hub in 2017, the 2016 Annual Report, the principles for...Read more

ELIXIR held its 3rd All Hands meeting last week in Rome, Italy. Hosting nearly 300 participants from ELIXIR Nodes and partner organisations, the meeting presented the work of ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases and reviewed the progress over the past...Read more

ELIXIR is pleased to announce the appointment of Rachel Drysdale and Juan Arenas Márquez as ELIXIR Data Platform Coordinator and ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Project Manager. As ELIXIR Data Platform Coordinator, Rachel Drysdale will work closely with the Data Platform leadership team, coordinating...Read more

ELIXIR, ELIXIR Finland and ELIXIR Estonia held a successful two-day ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum in Helsinki on 27-28 March 2017. The two-day event presented some of the bioinformatics resources in Genomics and Health available through ELIXIR and showcased several...Read more

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...Read more

Hungary has become the 21st Member to join ELIXIR, following the signature of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by Dr József Pálinkás, President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in Hungary. The ELIXIR Node in Hungary is currently under...Read more

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...Read more

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,...Read more

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...Read more