14 – 16 April 2021, 10am – 1pm each day, Online After the success of the last event, ELIXIR-UK is holding a second Hackathon where we will work on collaborations around ELIXIR-UK services and projects. The event will be virtual…
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 being led by the University of Bradford. ELIXIR-UK training coordinator…
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 19. You can view the full list of member organisations here.…
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 2020 with the aim of maximising the efficiency of peer…
As 2020 draws to a close it is time to look back on all the achievements of ELIXIR-UK and its members, and the progress we made this year. It has been a strange time, with the COVID-19 pandemic changing the…
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, the first online meeting saw record attendance with over 70…
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 InterMine platform on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)-Life OpenStack.…
Registration is now open for the ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2020 meeting, which will take place on the 10th and 11th of December. Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, this year’s event will be held virtually. We hope that you will…
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 current situation, it was pivoted to a fully virtual conference.…
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 group of publishers and scholarly communications organizations — initially comprising…
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 the accessibility of data, protocols, and analysis pipelines and provided…
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, UK) Open-access data and open, reproducible analytics are crucial for…
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 and the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (TOP) are two…
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 stories are grouped into four categories: Engagement and collaboration: Strategic…
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 Orengo, from University College London, sits on the ELIXIR-UK Steering…