Stories

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11 December 2023

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 […]

20 November 2023

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 […]

21 September 2023

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, […]

20 September 2023

HDR UK becomes ELIXIR-UK’s 25th Member

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 […]

7 August 2023

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 […]

22 June 2023

ELIXIR-UK Fellow launches Galaxy FAIR Training

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 […]

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19 June 2023

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 […]

A photo of the attendees of the Bioinformatics Education Summit 2023
14 June 2023

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 […]

12 June 2023

ELIXIR-UK at the ELIXIR All Hands 2023 in Dublin

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 […]

18 May 2023

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.  […]

11 May 2023

House of Commons Reproducibility and Research Integrity report includes ELIXIR-UK evidence

In 2021, ELIXIR-UK contributed to the inquiry from the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee of the House of Commons, which allowed our members to come together and provide evidence gathered […]

A photo of Xenia Perez Sitja at the SSI Collaborations workshop 2023
5 May 2023

ELIXIR-UK at the SSI Collaborations Workshop 2023

From the 2nd to the 4th of May, the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) ran its Collaborations Workshop for 2023. This year’s event had the theme ‘Sustainable Career Development for those […]

28 April 2023

Galaxy now supports exporting structured data like RO-Crate

Galaxy is an open-source FAIR data analysis platform that enables researchers to use tools from various domains, manage data, run code in interactive environments and more. The majority of the […]

24 April 2023

ELIXIR EOSC Strategy

‘The ambition of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is to develop a “Web of FAIR Data and services” for science in Europe. EOSC will be a multi-disciplinary environment where […]

18 April 2023

Our ELIXIR-UK DaSH Fellows now have expert mentors

Last month, our Fellows from the Data Stewardship Fellowship were paired with 11 ELIXIR-UK experts who will mentor them in their specialist areas. This will take the form of mentoring […]