Stories

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 […]

18 April 2023

FAIRsharing has launched a new Educational infographics database

FAIRsharing is a manually curated, informative resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related databases and data policies. FAIRsharing is an ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource and an intrinsic registry of the […]

12 April 2023

Open Life Science joins ELIXIR-UK

We are really excited to announce that Open Life Science (OLS) is the newest member of ELIXIR-UK, bringing us to 24 members! Check out our other members here. This mentoring […]

20 March 2023

A new research software skills course will be piloted

The University of Manchester and the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) are piloting a new course on intermediate research software skills for Earth, atmospheric and oceanic sciences at a workshop from […]

10 March 2023

ELIXIR-UK at the UKRI DRI Community Congress

On March 6th and 7th, members of ELIXIR-UK (Carole Goble, University of Manchester, Nicola Soranzo, Earlham Institute and Gos Micklem, University of Cambridge) attended the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) […]

23 February 2023

ELIXIR-UK announces 4 new Services

Following the 2022 call for new services, we are pleased to announce four new ELIXIR-UK services. These were selected by our panel to ensure high service quality and match UK […]

17 February 2023

Introducing TRE-FX: ‘Delivering a federated network of TREs to enable safe data analytics’

Members of the ELIXIR-UK Node have been successful in an open call for proposals to inform the design of a wider network of UK-based Trusted Research Environments (TREs).  Currently, across […]

29 September 2022

15 new Fellows to start training in data stewardship and management

15 Fellows are joining the fellowship of the ELIXIR-UK DaSH project to seed local data steward communities across the UK.  Fellows will work with ELIXIR-UK to produce and deliver training […]

26 July 2022

The University of Exeter joins ELIXIR-UK

We are very pleased to announce that the University of Exeter has become the most recent organisation to join ELIXIR-UK, bringing our total number of member organisations to 22. You […]

29 June 2022

UK Research and Innovation has awarded an initial £6.3 million funding to support the development of BioFAIR

The concept of BioFAIR was developed by ELIXIR-UK; what started as a pilot study proposal in 2020 led to us working with Technopolis Group to carry out a full Feasibility […]

13 April 2022

ELIXIR-UK launches new FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellowship – apply now

As part of our new UKRI-funded project in FAIR Data Stewardship Training, ELIXIR-UK has launched a new Fellowship programme which aims to improve FAIR data management in the Life Sciences […]