ELIXIR-STEERS launches: UK Node bolsters green strategies, workflows and training
On February 1st 2024, ELIXIR initiated the EU-funded ELIXIR-STEERS project, propelling European research infrastructure forward with a substantial €4M budget. This collaborative three-year initiative aims to enhance large-scale, cross-border federated […]
ELIXIR-UK and BioFAIR featuring at the Festival of Genomics 2024
At the 2024 Festival of Genomics in London, ELIXIR-UK’s two Joint Heads of Node, Carole Goble and Neil Hall, attended the event putting BioFAIR and the UK Node at the […]
ELIXIR recognises 4 UK Services as essential for biological data preservation
In December 2023, ELIXIR announced the addition of four ELIXIR-UK services as Core Data Resources (CDRs): HGNC, LIPID MAPS®, PomBase and VEuPathDB. These four resources have been identified as crucial for […]
GBC selects 3 ELIXIR-UK services as key biodata resources
ELIXIR-UK is pleased to announce the inclusion of three UK Node services in the 2023 cohort of Global Core Biodata Resources. The recognition given to CATH, IUPHAR/BPS guide to pharmacology, […]
ELIXIR recognises 3 UK services for enabling data interoperability
ELIXIR announces the addition of three ELIXIR-UK services as Recommended Interoperability Resources (RIR): FAIR Cookbook, Jalview and RDMkit. Out of the seven selected RIRs this year, three of them are […]
ELIXIR-UK welcomes Pirbright Institute, expanding the network to 26 organisations
ELIXIR-UK is excited to announce Pirbright Institute as its newest member, bringing the total membership to 26 organisations. The Pirbright Institute is a BBSRC-funded organisation dedicated to the health of […]
ELIXIR UK All-Hands 2023 unveils collaborative and promising plans
On 7-8 November 2023, ELIXIR-UK convened nearly 50 members of the UK Node community at The Norwich City Football Ground for its annual All Hands meeting. Centered around the theme […]
Fellows, Mentors and coordinators meet to celebrate the 3-year hallmark of the ELIXIR-UK Fellowship
On 15 September 2023, the ELIXIR-UK Fellowship reached a significant milestone, celebrating three years of extraordinary accomplishments at a unique retreat. The event, which united 20 dedicated participants, including Fellows, […]
ELIXIR-UK are excited to announce that Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) is the newest member of ELIXIR-UK, bringing us to 25 members. HDR UK is the National Institute for […]
ELIXIR-UK Fellows showcase their work at NERC Digital Gathering 2023
Fostering collaborations and upskilling the workforce: ELIXIR-UK Fellows shine. Two ELIXIR-UK Fellows, Gabriela López González from the University of Leeds and Richard Ostler from Rothamsted Research, were invited to speak […]
Katarzyna Kamieniecka, a member of the ELIXIR-UK Fellowship Programme, has just launched a new series of Galaxy Training Materials. She is aiming to improve FAIR data management in the life […]
UK Research and Innovation have awarded £34 million in funding for BioFAIR
ELIXIR-UK has conceived BioFAIR, a new digital research infrastructure that enables the data and processing resources of ELIXIR and other partners to be delivered to researchers across the UK. A […]
ELIXIR-UK DaSH Fellows attend the Bioinformatics Education Summit
The Bioinformatics Education Summit is created and hosted by Wellcome Connecting Science, based at the Wellcome Genome Campus in the UK. The goal of this working meeting was to promote […]
5-8 June 2023 saw almost 30 delegates from ELIXIR-UK head to Dublin for ELIXIR’s annual All Hands meeting (with more joining sessions remotely). Three of those were Fellows from our […]
Introducing FAIR Pointers, a course to embed FAIR data into the life sciences
The ELIXIR-UK DaSH Fellowship aims to embed Research Data Management (RDM) know-how into UK universities and institutes, the Fellows are creating training and delivering local training as part of this. […]
