Towards Data Stewardship in ELIXIR: Training and Portal

Scientists have been managing data ever since they collected specimens and shared results of their study with their peers. The advent of the digital computer has allowed for data acquisition in unprecedented amounts to the extent that the organisational task of data management (DM) has become a core activity. Also, external pressure is rising on researchers in general to make sure their experiments are reproducible and that the resulting data is accessible and reusable for others for a longer time (“data stewardship”, DS).

ELIXIR Position Paper on the EU’s Future Framework Programme for Research (Horizon Europe)

ELIXIR is an active participant in the Horizon 2020 programme, coordinating the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE and CORBEL grants, and partnering in several others including ENVRIPlus, EMBRIC, AARC2 and EOSCPilot. These grants are funded through the Research Infrastructures programme within Horizon 2020, though partners in ELIXIR are active in many other areas including Health, Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation and also the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (IMI JU).

ELIXIR Report: Public data resources as business model for SMEs

This ELIXIR report describes companies whose business model is fundamentally based on selling services on top of public bioinformatics data. It presents the typical business model of these companies and the particular way in which they add value to public data through customisation, aggregation and through facilitating the discovery of public data. Furthermore, it describes the relationship these companies have with ELIXIR Core Data Resources, and the direct way in which they generate revenue, such as through consultancy services or developing bespoke software.