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A new EU project to unlock the potential of human genomics Published on: November 17, 2022
A new EU project to unlock the potential of human genomics Today, the European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project kicks-off in Brussels, Belgium. The new €40 million GDI project, coordinated by ELIXIR, is jointly funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme and through co-funding from participating Member States. In...
BY-COVID: A new EU project for pandemic preparedness Published on: October 26, 2021
BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID), a new €12 million Horizon Europe funded project, was recently launched. It will tackle the data challenges that can hinder effectivepandemic response. The core aim of the project is to ensure that data on SARS-CoV-2 andother infectious diseases can be found and used by everyone. ELIXIR Luxembourg and the Bioinformatics...
ELIXIR-LU and LCSB contribute to the development of a European Health Data Space Published on: March 11, 2021
HealthyCloud Advances in health and biomedical sciences require that health research is performed timely, efficiently and oriented to high-quality results. To meet this need and to maximise the impact of health research, adopting best practices in health data management is essential. One of the priorities of the European Commission 2019-2025 is the...
ELIXIR-LU first EKES webinar with PetaGene Published on: December 07, 2020
In November, ELIXIR-LU and PetaGene shared the first EKES (ELIXIR Knowledge Exchange Scheme) pilot outcome — a webinar on genomic data privacy. This workshop was the basis for future collaboration between Petagene and ELIXIR Luxembourg, with a scope to expand to other ELIXIR Nodes. The webinar focused on the impact of regulations such as...
PerMedCoE: HPC/Exascale Centre of Excellence in Personalised Medicine Published on: October 17, 2020
Coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and funded by the European Commission, this recently launched HPC centre of excellence will optimise codes for cell-level simulations in HPC/Exascale and bridge the gap between organ and molecular simulations, thus contributing to the European Personalised Medicine Roadmap. The next generation of Exascale supercomputers will...
ELIXIR-LU participates in the new “Beyond One Million Genomes” project Published on: June 09, 2020
A new ELIXIR-coordinated European project has been recently launched. Called “Beyond One Million Genomes” (B1MG) and funded by Horizon 2020, it aims to support the implementation of the 1+ Million Genomes initiative. This initiative is a declaration of cooperation “towards access to at least 1 million sequenced genomes in the EU by...
The ELIXIR FAIR Training working group publishes a paper in PLoS Computational Biology — ‘10 Simple Rules for Making training materials FAIR.’ Published on: May 26, 2020
The collaborative effort, which started at the ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe 2018, has involved a multitude of experts from across ELIXIR. A working group on FAIR training picked up the work from the BioHackathon to build a set of 10 simple rules that could help develop and share FAIR training resources. Their goal:...