ELIXIR-UK at the EOSC Symposium 2024: advancing FAIR data and interoperability
In October 2024, Carole Goble and Nick Juty from ELIXIR-UK (University of Manchester) represented our community at the EOSC Symposium, a flagship event driving the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) […]
ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2024: A Celebration of Collaboration and Innovation
The ELIXIR-UK All Hands Meeting 2024, held at Cardiff’s iconic Principality Stadium on November 19–20, brought together 70 attendees from across almost all members of ELIXIR-UK, and representatives from the […]
Health-RI exchange offers insights into shaping a national BioCommons
In October 2024, ELIXIR-UK and its conceived initiative – BioFAIR – engaged in a knowledge exchange with the Netherlands’ Health-RI (ELIXIR-NL) to refine governance and operational strategies for national research data […]
Supporting UK-led projects at BioHackathon Europe 2024
ELIXIR-UK supported 22 participants from 11 organisations at BioHackathon Europe 2024, held in November near Barcelona, where 300 participants from the life sciences research community gathered to tackle critical challenges […]
Adapting ELIXIR training content at the University of Manchester
By Saskia Lawson-Tovey Disseminating and embedding ELIXIR knowledge and training is the primary goal of the ELIXIR DaSH fellowship. The University of Manchester (UoM) has established the UoM Office for […]
EFPIA playbook recognises FAIR Cookbook as essential for data sharing
In July 2024, EFPIA, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Association, officially released a comprehensive playbook to guide Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) and Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) projects implementing […]
Championing diversity and collaboration at the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference
In June 2024, members of the ELIXIR-UK community, including key contributors like Wendi Bacon and Nicola Soranzo, participated in the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2024), the flagship annual event about […]
Green light for £34M investment in BioFAIR – conceived by ELIXIR-UK
With UKRI’s £34m investment approved, BioFAIR is poised to revolutionise UK life science research by transforming how we facilitate research data management. Supported by UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Infrastructure […]
UK Node’s collaborative presence at 2024 ELIXIR All Hands
Members of ELIXIR-UK attended in force the 2024 ELIXIR Europe All Hands meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, during the week of June 13th, 2024, to discuss collaborative solutions to life sciences […]
WorkflowHub and nf-core collaboration enhances workflow accessibility
WorkflowHub announces a significant advancement in the accessibility and visibility of computational workflows by integrating nf-core community workflows into its registry. This development marks a major step forward in making […]
Queen Mary University of London has officially joined ELIXIR-UK. The application submitted by Queen Mary outlined a robust plan to contribute to ELIXIR-UK’s mission to support life science research, focusing […]
Since 2016, when the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) were first published to address data reusability, the concept has gone a long way towards becoming a well-established foundation […]
Advancing research practices: OSTrails project towards open science
The Oxford e-Research Centre’s Data Readiness Group, an essential member of the ELIXIR-UK Node, is driving significant progress in open science and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data as […]
From fragmentation to integration: EOSC-ENTRUST launches to unite European TREs
On 1 March 2024, the EU-funded EOSC-ENTRUST project launched to enhance European interoperability for sensitive data access and analysis. Led by ELIXIR and the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI), this […]
ELIXIR UK announces its newest member: Swansea University
ELIXIR-UK welcomes Swansea University as its newest member, strengthening collaborative efforts in biological data management. The UK Node proudly welcomes Swansea University into its network, further expanding its reach and […]
