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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
