This year the ELIXIR-UK All Hands meeting looked a little different to usual, as it went virtual for the first time. Held on the 10th and the 11th of December, […]
PomBase and InterMine secure funding for PombeMine
Two of our ELIXIR-UK services, PomBase and InterMine, have received funding for a new collaboration to create a cloud version of the FAIR model organism database PomBase, by using the […]
The first UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Last week Earlham Institute hosted the inaugural UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in association with ELIXIR-UK. This was originally planned to be a physical event; however, given the […]
Scholarly publishers are working together to maximise efficiency during COVID-19 pandemic
Scholarly publishers are working together to maximize the efficiency of peer review, ensuring that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. The […]
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 improved […]
ELIXIR: Open collaborative infrastructure to tackle public health emergencies
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, […]
Announcing a joint effort to improve research transparency: FAIRSharing and TOP Guidelines
FAIRsharing (an ELIXIR-UK Resource) and the Center for Open Science aim to advance and enable open and FAIR research and are happy to announce an effort to jointly achieve their shared goals. FAIRsharing […]
Connecting public bioinformatics infrastructure with industry
ELIXIR has published a report presenting the different ways in which ELIXIR Nodes support the industry. It features a series of success stories highlighting industry-academia collaboration across ELIXIR. The success […]
Professor Christine Orengo has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
ELIXIR-UK is proud to announce that Professor Christine Orengo, who has been a member of ELIXIR-UK since its foundation, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor […]
The latest Nature Biotechnology publication about FAIRsharing
FAIRsharing presents its community approach to mapping and tracking the development of data standards and policies across scientific fields. In an article published today in Nature Biotechnology, the team behind […]
