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 FAIRsharing, along with key representatives of its user community,…
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 of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to continue its world-leading…
The annual ELIXIR-UK All Hands brings together people working at ELIXIR-UK consortium member institutions for this two-day meeting, which for 2018 is hosted by Birmingham University. What is the workshop about? The annual ELIXIR-UK All Hands brings together people working…
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 collaboration, The Carpentries will organise close to 20 Software and…
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 the ELIXIR Nodes, and collaborators from partner organisations, in order…
Keeping your research data freely available is crucial for open science — and your funding could depend on it. Quirin Schiermeier Nature Magazine 13 March 2018 When Marjorie Etique learnt that she had to create a data-management plan for her next…
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 (LS) Toolkit, to help life science companies improve UX in…
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 academia and industry, operators of public databases and infrastructure service…
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 takes biological data from many sources and combines it into…