Fostering collaboration at the second ELIXIR-UK hackathon
Last week, we ran the second ELIXIR-UK Hackathon, which saw three days of collaboration on a range of ELIXIR-UK projects and services. Overall, 18 people from over half of our […]
ELIXIR-UK announces new FAIR data stewardship training project
ELIXIR-UK have successfully secured funding for a new data steward training project as part of the UKRI Innovation Scholars: Data Science Training in Health and Bioscience call. This project is […]
ELIXIR CONVERGE releases RDMKit to simplify research data management
ELIXIR CONVERGE has released one of its main outputs, the RDMKit. This project has been co-led by ELIXIR-UK alongside ELIXIR-BE and ELIXIR-NO. This new tool for empowering researchers in their […]
We are very pleased to announce that the University of East Anglia (UEA) has become the most recent organisation to join ELIXIR-UK, bringing our total number of member organisations to […]
FAIRsharing plays vital role in data deposition mandate for COVID-19 rapid review publishers
The C-19 Rapid Review Initiative is led by a group of scholarly communications organisations, including the Royal Society, OASPA and the ELIXIR-UK service FAIRsharing. The initiative was launched in April […]
This year the ELIXIR-UK All Hands meeting looked a little different to usual, as it went virtual for the first time. Held on the 10th and the 11th of December, […]
PomBase and InterMine secure funding for PombeMine
Two of our ELIXIR-UK services, PomBase and InterMine, have received funding for a new collaboration to create a cloud version of the FAIR model organism database PomBase, by using the […]
The first UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Last week Earlham Institute hosted the inaugural UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in association with ELIXIR-UK. This was originally planned to be a physical event; however, given the […]
Scholarly publishers are working together to maximise efficiency during COVID-19 pandemic
Scholarly publishers are working together to maximize the efficiency of peer review, ensuring that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. The […]
Over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians joined forces in the COVID-19 virtual Biohackathon to develop new tools for working with the COVID-19 data. The outcomes of the event improved […]
ELIXIR: Open collaborative infrastructure to tackle public health emergencies
The rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus highlights the need for an open analytics environment so that the global research community can collaborate on developing effective countermeasures. 27 February, Hinxton, […]
Announcing a joint effort to improve research transparency: FAIRSharing and TOP Guidelines
FAIRsharing (an ELIXIR-UK Resource) and the Center for Open Science aim to advance and enable open and FAIR research and are happy to announce an effort to jointly achieve their shared goals. FAIRsharing […]
Connecting public bioinformatics infrastructure with industry
ELIXIR has published a report presenting the different ways in which ELIXIR Nodes support the industry. It features a series of success stories highlighting industry-academia collaboration across ELIXIR. The success […]
Professor Christine Orengo has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
ELIXIR-UK is proud to announce that Professor Christine Orengo, who has been a member of ELIXIR-UK since its foundation, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Professor […]
