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ELIXIR-UK co-led two FAIRification events at ECCB2026 in Geneva, comparing the ELIXIR, GO-FAIR and CODATA approaches side by side.

BioinfoCoreLeaders Club, a national community for people leading bioinformatics and computational biology core facilities, was formally established at the University of Warwick on 10-11 September 2026. It is now an ELIXIR-UK-endorsed community, with four priority areas in development.

EnteroBase, selected as ELIXIR-UK serive, a free, publicly accessible web platform for bacterial pathogen genomics, providing more than 1.8 million uniformly assembled and annotated genomes.

The KnetMiner team at Rothamsted has linked plant pangenome data from PLAZA to gene function, pathways and literature, letting researchers query both in one search

Queen's University Belfast has joined ELIXIR-UK, extending the Node into Northern Ireland and bringing biodata, imaging and high-performance computing expertise across 11 academic units.

BioFAIR has committed £4 million to a national Methods Commons for FAIR workflows, led by Carole Goble and partly built on ELIXIR-UK foundations.

FAIR-in-action Bridge is co-creating two FAIR playbooks and rolling them out across six UK research organisations to turn FAIR guidance into everyday practice.

A new Bioinformatics Advances paper explores how human-in-the-loop AI can support literature curation for biological knowledgebases while keeping expert curators at the centre of the process. ELIXIR-UK member Valerie Wood, of the University of Cambridge, is among the authors.

The University of Southampton has joined ELIXIR-UK, bringing expertise in computational glyco-bioinformatics, clinical data and data stewardship to ELIXIR-UK.

The University of York has become the latest institution to join ELIXIR-UK, formalising a relationship built on Data Stewardship Training Fellows, ELIXIR-badged workshops, and a university-wide commitment to training in research data skills and open research.

ELIXIR-UK members have collaborated on a landmark set of new RDM resources – the outcome of ELIXIR's first internally funded project for its European RDM Community.

HDR UK joins ELIXIR-UK to amplify voices and exchange knowledge across the UK human data research infrastructure and health data landscapes.

A new case study from ELIXIR’s leadership and diversity mentoring programme, ELEAD, shows early evidence that the initiative is supporting women’s progression into leadership roles and contributing to culture change […]