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ELIXIR

A distributed infrastructure for life-science information

ELIXIR unites Europe’s leading life science organisations in managing and safeguarding the increasing volume of data being generated by publicly funded research. It coordinates, integrates and sustains bioinformatics resources across its member states and enables users in academia and industry to access vital services for their research.

EU projects

ELIXIR runs major EU projects, which help to fund the Platforms and Use Cases.

  • EXCELERATE
  • CORBEL
  • EMBRIC

Platforms

ELIXIR’s activities are divided into five areas called 'Platforms'.

  • Data
  • Tools
  • Compute
  • Interoperability
  • Training

Use Cases

Use Cases test and provide feedback on the work of the Platforms.

  • Human Data
  • Rare Diseases
  • Marine Metagenomics
  • Plant Sciences

Events

Conferences and meetings

  • ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee meeting
    25 January 2017
  • Festival of Genomics, London
    31 January 2017
  • ELIXIR HoN meeting to review submissions for Core Data Resources
    6 February 2017
  • ELIXIR Belgium Launch
    9 February 2017
More...

Workshops and courses

  • ELIXIR-EXCELERATE and IFB European Galaxy Developer Workshop
    16 January 2017
  • 5th ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer (TtT) pilot course
    16 January 2017
  • ELIXIR-DK bio.tools Hackathon: Genomics Tools and Databases in Agricultural Science
    2 February 2017
  • Strategic workshop "The future of proteomics in ELIXIR"
    1 March 2017
You can find a full list of workshops and training courses at TeSS, ELIXIR's training portal.

Webinars

The 2017 webinars will be announced shortly. In the meantime, you can view the previous webinars.

News

ELIXIR-UK expands to data, tools and interoperability
2 Dec 2016
Re-using life-science data ethically
25 Nov 2016
Outcomes of ELIXIR Board meeting: 2016 Autumn session
22 Nov 2016
Handbook of Operations published
7 Nov 2016
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