Stories

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 […]

26 November 2021

King’s College London joins ELIXIR-UK

We are very pleased to announce that King’s College London has become the most recent organisation to join ELIXIR-UK, bringing our total number of member organisations to 21. You can […]

1 October 2021

ELIXIR-UK All Hands and Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2021

This year the annual ELIXIR-UK All Hands was held in partnership with the UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (UK CBCB), organised by the Earlham Institute. This was done […]

27 September 2021

ELIXIR-UK announces seven new services

Following the 2021 call for new services, we are pleased to announce seven new ELIXIR-UK services. These were selected by our panel to ensure high service quality and match UK […]

16 September 2021

Meet the new FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellows

Please join us in welcoming the first nine Fellows who have been selected for the ELIXIR-UK FAIR data stewardship training Fellowship 2021! We received a number of strong applications and […]

2 August 2021

ELIXIR-UK Alumni Teresa Attwood wins the 2021 ISCB Outstanding Contributions Award

Teresa Attwood has been awarded the 2021 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award. This award recognizes an ISCB member for outstanding service contributions toward the betterment of ISCB through exemplary leadership, […]

14 July 2021

The Quadram Institute joins ELIXIR-UK

We are very pleased to announce that the Quadram Institute (QIB) has become the most recent organisation to join ELIXIR-UK, bringing our total number of member organisations to 20. You […]

9 July 2021

Towards better findability: Bioschemas meets Schema.org

Schema.org has included five Bioschemas types for representing life sciences data in their latest release. It includes types for providing high-level descriptions of genes, proteins, molecular entities, chemical substances and […]

7 July 2021

Watch: ELIXIR-UK FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellowship launch webinar

On Thursday, 1 July 2021, ELIXIR-UK held a launch webinar for our new FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellowship. Given by Robert Andrews, from Cardiff University and one of the leads […]

23 April 2021

Galaxy Europe monitor COG-UK COVID-19 genomic data

Galaxy Europe has started to monitor COG-UK data. COG-UK is the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium, which was set up in 2020 in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.  The consortium sequences […]