ELIXIR Communities bring together experts across Europe to develop standards, services and training within specific life science domains. The Communities also provide feedback on the Platform services, which helps ensure these services are practical and useful.
You can visit the ELIXIR Hub website to see the full list of ELIXIR communities. Below are the communities which ELIXIR-UK plays an active role in:
3D BioInfo
Helps to understand the structure of macromolecules like proteins and DNA.
UK involvement: Christine Orengo (UCL) is one of the leads of this Community.
GALAXY
The community aims to make it easier to import data into Galaxy instances, help develop and share Galaxy tools and workflows, and to increase the provision of Galaxy training.
UK involvement: Nicola Soranzo (Earlham Institute) is one of the leads of this Community.
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Develops standards, tools and resources to help identify and characterise IDPs.
UK involvement: Members from the University of Bradford are active in this Community.
Metabolomics
Provides the resources, analysis tools and infrastructure to help metabolite identification.
UK involvement: Members from University of Birmingham, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge are active in this Community.
Microbial Biotechnology
Helps the development of tailor-made microbes and biological systems.
UK involvement: Anil Wipat (Newcastle University) is one of the leads of this Community and Members from the University of Manchester, Cardiff University and Earlham Institute are active in this Community.
Plant Sciences
Aims to facilitate genotype-phenotype analysis for crop and tree species. ELIXIR-UK is involved in the work of this community, in particular in annotating and submitting exemplar datasets to relevant public archives.
UK involvement: Members from the Earlham Institute, Rothamsted Research, University of Oxford and University of Manchester are active in this Community.
Food and Nutrition
Aims to help us understand the effect of food choices on human health.
UK involvement: Members from the Quadram Institute and Earlham Institute are active in this Community
Human Data Communities
Federated Human Data
Develops long-term strategies for managing and accessing sensitive human data.
UK involvement: Members from the Quadram Institute and Earlham Institute are active in this Community
Human Copy Number Variation
Aims to make it easier to detect, annotate and interpret human Copy Number Variations (hCNVs).
UK involvement: Members from the University of Bradford, University of Cambridge and University of Leicester are active in this Community