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2 March 2021

ELIXIR CONVERGE releases RDMKit to simplify research data management

ELIXIR CONVERGE has released one of its main outputs, the RDMKit. This project has been co-led by ELIXIR-UK alongside ELIXIR-BE and ELIXIR-NO. This new tool for empowering researchers in their […]

8 February 2021

The University of East Anglia joins ELIXIR-UK

We are very pleased to announce that the University of East Anglia (UEA) has become the most recent organisation to join ELIXIR-UK, bringing our total number of member organisations to […]

22 January 2021

FAIRsharing plays vital role in data deposition mandate for COVID-19 rapid review publishers

The C-19 Rapid Review Initiative is led by a group of scholarly communications organisations, including the Royal Society, OASPA and the ELIXIR-UK service FAIRsharing. The initiative was launched in April […]

21 December 2020

ELIXIR-UK 2020 highlights

As 2020 draws to a close it is time to look back on all the achievements of ELIXIR-UK and its members, and the progress we made this year. It has […]

14 December 2020

ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2020

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, […]

3 December 2020

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 […]

5 October 2020

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 […]

28 April 2020

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 […]

17 April 2020

Hacking the pandemic

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 […]

16 March 2020

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, […]