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 […]
ELIXIR: Open collaborative infrastructure to tackle public health emergencies
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, […]
Announcing a joint effort to improve research transparency: FAIRSharing and TOP Guidelines
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 […]
Connecting public bioinformatics infrastructure with industry
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 […]
Professor Christine Orengo has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
