ELIXIR-EXCELERATE

Project Overview

EXCELERATE funding will help ELIXIR coordinate and extend national and international data resources to ensure the delivery of world-leading life-science data services. It will support a pan-European training programme, anchored in national infrastructures, to increase bioinformatics capacity and competency. It will also provide efficiencies in management and operation throughout the infrastructure, which is distributed amongst 17 countries. Dedicated use cases defined in close partnership with diverse research communities, will help ELIXIR grow in keeping with the needs of scientists working on rare diseases, biomedical and human genomics, marine and plant sciences and other specialized areas (WPs 6 - 9 above). This will ensure that ELIXIR’s services for data, tools, interoperability, compute, training and industry support are rooted in user needs, and can deliver benefits to existing and future research projects.

SWeL Contributions

Alasdair was invited to join the consortium in November 2017 and formally joined in March 2018. Alasdair is leading on the Bioschemas initiative that is developing lightweight markup to make life sciences resources more discoverable and interoperable. For more details see Bioschemas.