Current projects and programmes

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  • AgroServ - Integrated SERVices supporting a sustainable AGROecological transition

  • Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) - Tackle biodiversity crisis using DNA data

  • BioDT - Biodiversity Digital Twin

  • BioFAIR - Supporting the UK’s life science community with world class digital infrastructure for data driven bioscience.

  • BIOINDUSTRY 4.0 - RI services to promote deep digitalization of Industrial Biotechnology - towards smart biomanufacturing

  • BY-COVID - BeYond-COVID, make data from COVID-19 and other infectious diseases open and accessible to everyone

  • EJP RD - The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)

  • ELIXIR-STEERS - Developing, consolidating and optimising ELIXIR as an European research infrastructure

  • ELIXIR - Distributed European infrastructure for life-science resources (data, tools, standards, compute services and training)

  • EOSC-ENTRUST - A European Network of TRUSTed research environments

  • EOSC4Cancer - A European-wide foundation to accelerate data-driven Cancer Research

  • EuroScienceGateway - Improving computational workflows in Galaxy by maturing Pulsar Network and publishing computational workflows as FAIR Digital Objects.

  • EVERSE - European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence

  • FAIR-IMPACT - FAIR-IMPACT, expanding FAIR solutions across EOSC.

  • FAIRDOM - Data and model management service facility for Systems Biology

  • HDR-UK Federated Analytics -

  • PREP-IBISBA - European Industrial Biotechnology Innovation and Synthetic Biology Accelerator Preparatory Phase

  • Software Sustainability Institute - Facilitating self-sustainability of research software

  • UKSRC - Design and develop the UK node within the global Square Kilometre Array Regional Centre Network

Current activities and initiatives

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  • Bioschemas - Markup to support findability of data in the life sciences.

  • Common Workflow Language - Community-led specification for describing analysis workflows and tools in a way that makes them portable and scalable across a variety of software and hardware environments

  • Data Carpentry - Teaching researchers fundamental concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with domain-specific data, as well as data analysis and data management best practices

  • Research Objects - Research publications, data, code and more bundled into a shareable, cite-able, reusable format

  • Software Carpentry - Teaching researchers basic programming skills and best practices, including task automation, structured code design and testing, version control and data structuring

Previous projects and programmes

  • BioCatalogue - Curated catalogue of life sciences Web services

  • BioExcel - Centre of Excellence for Biomolecular Research

  • BioVeL - Biodiversity e-Laboratory

  • CHIP-SET - Community Health Intelligence Partnership Semantic Epidemiology Toolkit

  • CORBEL - Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science Services

  • ELIXIR Converge - ELIXIR-Converge builds sustainable life science data management services

  • ENGAGE - Improving the Experience of Researchers

  • EOSC Enhance - EOSC Enhance is a 24-month project funded by the European Commission tasked with enhancing the EOSC Portal and connecting thematic clouds.

  • EOSC-Life - The EOSC-Life project develops an open collaborative space for digital biology in Europe

  • ESNW - Centre for Collaborative Multidisciplinary e-Research in the North West

  • Excelerate - Fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life-sciences

  • FAIRplus - Tools and guidelines for making life science data FAIR

  • FISH.Link - Producing tools that allow fresh water biologists to publish data in to the Linked data Cloud

  • HELIO - Services and workflows for HelioPhysics

  • IBISBA 1.0 - Industrial Biotechnology Innovation and Synthetic Biology Accelerator

  • ISpider - Proteomics workflows

  • MIASGrid - Medical Imaging

  • NeISS - National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation

  • ONDEX - Integration of Biological data

  • Obesity e-Lab - eInfrastructure for collaborative research into obesity

  • OntoGenesis - Specification of biology ontologies

  • OntoGrid - Infrastructure for open services for the semantic Grid

  • Open PHACTS - Bringing together pharmacological data resources in an integrated, interoperable infrastructure

  • REFINE - Text mining and visualisation

  • Research Object Composer -

  • SageCite - Citation framework for linking data, methods and publications

  • Sealife - Semantic grid browser for the life sciences

  • Semantic Provenance Project - Integrating functionality between two university systems

  • Shared Genomics - Use of semantics to run workflows

  • SynBioChem - Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre for Fine and Specialty Chemicals

  • SyntheSys+ - Synthesis of Systematic Resources

  • SysMO-DB - SysMO Data management

  • TRE-FX - Delivering a federated network of TREs to enable safe analytics

  • Web Services for Life Sciences (BioCatalogue) - (BioCatalogue)

  • caGrid - Support for running cancer-research workflows

  • comparaGrid - Querying of genomic relationships

  • e-Fungi - Webservices for comparative genomics

  • e-LICO - Virtual laboratory for collaborative research

Previous activities and initiatives