Stories

4 April 2019

The latest Nature Biotechnology publication about FAIRsharing

FAIRsharing presents its community approach to mapping and tracking the development of data standards and policies across scientific fields. In an article published today in Nature Biotechnology, the team behind […]

28 February 2019

Software Sustainability Institute to improve research software practices with £6.5 million UKRI funding

The Software Sustainability Institute, a team of software experts, from the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton, has been awarded £6.5 million funding, from the seven UK Research Councils that are part […]

20 August 2018

ELIXIR teams up with The Carpentries to boost its training programme

ELIXIR and The Carpentries initiative, a merged organization of Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry, have agreed to extend their collaboration in organising and delivering training in ELIXIR Nodes. As part of the […]

27 June 2018

The ELIXIR UK team enjoyed a successful All Hands meeting held in Berlin on 4-7 June 2018

The ELIXIR UK team attended the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting, which was held in Berlin on 4-7 June 2018. The All Hands brings together members of the ELIXIR community from across […]

15 March 2018

Latest Nature article: Data management made simple

Keeping your research data freely available is crucial for open science — and your funding could depend on it. By Quirin Schiermeier When Marjorie Etique learnt that she had to […]

14 February 2018

Pistoia Alliance tackles poorly designed scientific software with launch of user experience for life sciences toolkit

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D has today announced the launch of the User Experience (UX) for Life Sciences […]

7 February 2018

ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum promotes discoverability of biomedical data

The challenge of enabling optimal use and reuse of public research data, tools and training materials is a complex one and involves multiple stakeholders: consumers and users of data in […]

2 February 2018

Life sciences data needs to be FAIR

By Justin Clark-Casey, Research Software Engineer, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge InterMine is an open-source life sciences data integration platform created at the University of Cambridge in the UK. It […]