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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
