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ELIXIR among signatories of Call for action for global coalition to sustain core data resources
The leaders of major international life-science data resources have today called for a global coalition ‘to collectively support (...) data resources deemed essential to the work of life science researchers, educators, and innovators worldwide'. The signatories of the Call for...Read more
Posted: Wed 8 March 2017
Supporting Innovation in Genomics and Health
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
Posted: Tue 28 February 2017
ELIXIR Beacons to facilitate sharing of genomics data in Europe
Scientists across the world can now discover and query data from genomics projects in six different countries in Europe. This has been a success of the ELIXIR collaboration with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) on the Beacon...Read more
Posted: Mon 27 February 2017
BioSchemas supports the discovery of public datasets
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
Posted: Fri 3 February 2017
ELIXIR publishes Position Paper on Interim Evaluation of Horizon 2020
In response to European Union's public consultation on the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, ELIXIR has published its Position Paper on Horizon 2020, the European Union's funding programme for research and development. The Paper includes recommendations that could be adopted...Read more
Posted: Fri 13 January 2017
Hungary becomes ELIXIR Member
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
Posted: Fri 13 January 2017
ELIXIR and GA4GH Beacon Team Up to Advance Genomic Data Sharing
TORONTO, CANADA & HINXTON, UNITED KINGDOM — The Beacon Project of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for life-science data, announced today an expansion of their partnership to develop the Beacon project that...Read more
Posted: Tue 3 January 2017
ELIXIR-UK expands to data, tools and interoperability
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
Posted: Fri 2 December 2016
Re-using life-science data ethically
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...Read more
Posted: Fri 25 November 2016
Outcomes of ELIXIR Board meeting: 2016 Autumn session
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
Posted: Tue 22 November 2016
Handbook of Operations published
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...Read more
Posted: Mon 7 November 2016
ELIXIR’s Human Data activities presented in DNAdigest
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
Posted: Wed 19 October 2016
ELIXIR opens process for nominations to Core Data Resources
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...Read more
Posted: Mon 17 October 2016
ELIXIR UK appoints Deputy Head of Node
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...Read more
Posted: Tue 11 October 2016
ELIXIR kicks-off three new Implementation Studies
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...Read more
Posted: Fri 30 September 2016
CORBEL launches 1st Open Call for research projects
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...Read more
Posted: Wed 5 October 2016
ELIXIR publishes its International Strategy
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...Read more
Posted: Wed 5 October 2016
ELIXIR UK launches TeSS, the ELIXIR Training portal
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...Read more
Posted: Wed 14 September 2016
ELIXIR Hub strengthens its industry and international outreach
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...Read more
Posted: Fri 26 August 2016
Germany joins ELIXIR
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...Read more
Posted: Thu 18 August 2016
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