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 our Fellows have been selected for their experience, passion and…
We are pleased to announce that ELIXIR-UK is able to fund some of our members to attend the BioHackathon Europe 2021 in Barcelona. If you are planning to attend this event in person then please read the below criteria and…
When: 08-09 September 2021, 09:00 – 16:30 BST Where: Online. Registration: CLOSED Instructors and helpers Instructors: Krzysztof Poterlowicz, University of Bradford Fotis Psomopoulos, INAB-CERTH, ELIXIR-GR Gabriele Schweikert, University of Dundee Helpers: to be updated Overview With the rise in high-throughput sequencing technologies, the…
As part of our new UKRI funded FAIR Data Stewardship Training Project, we are searching for a new full-time staff member to oversee and develop a new Data Stewardship Fellowship programme and work with a small team to coordinate the…
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, education, and service. Teresa Attwood is a Professor of Bioinformatics…
We have extended our open call for new services until 5 pm on 3 August 2021. If you work at one of our member organisations and have a service that you would like to be an ELIXIR-UK Service then please…
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 can view the full list of member organisations here. QIB…
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 taxons. Schema.org is an international community effort, with Google, Microsoft,…
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 on this project, this webinar explained the goals of this…
As part of our new UKRI funded project in FAIR Data Stewardship Training, ELIXIR-UK have launched a new Fellowship programme which aims to improve FAIR data management in the Life Sciences practiced by UK researchers and their research support staff. …
The 2021 call for new ELIXIR-UK services is now open. Visit this webpage to find out more and to access the Expression of Interest. Deadline to apply: 30 July 2021. The ELIXIR-UK services span four of the five ELIXIR platforms:…
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 SARS-CoV-2 genomes, providing vital information on the transmission and tracking…
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 member organisations attended the event. The three days were busy…
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 data management has been a large undertaking and is an…
ELIXIR-UK recently announced a new FAIR Data Stewardship Training funded by UKRI. As part of this we are looking to recruit two Data Steward Trainer and Course Developer roles, who will be responsible for creating training resources for a diverse…