The ELIXIR channel in F1000Research

Niklas Blomberg; Arlindo Oliveira; Barend Mons; Bengt Persson; Inge Jonassen

doi:10.12688/f1000research.7587.2

The ELIXIR channel in F1000Research

F1000Res. 2015 Dec 18:4:ELIXIR-1471. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.7587.2. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Niklas Blomberg¹, Arlindo Oliveira², Barend Mons³, Bengt Persson⁴, Inge Jonassen⁵

Affiliations

¹ ELIXIR Hub, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
² INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
³ Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁵ Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Abstract

ELIXIR, the European life science infrastructure for biological information, is a unique initiative to consolidate Europe's national centres, services, and core bioinformatics resources into a single, coordinated infrastructure. ELIXIR brings together Europe's major life-science data archives and connects these with national bioinformatics infrastructures - the ELIXIR Nodes. This editorial introduces the ELIXIR channel in F1000Research; the aim of the channel is to collect and present ELIXIR's scientific and operational output, engage with the broad life science community and encourage discussion on proposed infrastructure solutions. Submissions will be assessed by the ELIXIR channel Advisory Board to ensure they are relevant to ELIXIR community, and subjected to F1000Research open peer review process.

Keywords: ELIXIR; ELIXIR Channel; bioinformatics.

Grants and funding

ELIXIR is funded jointly by its participating ELIXIR Member States, in proportion to GDP. ELIXIR has also received funding from EU’s HORIZON 2020 programme through the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project (grant agreement number 676559). The Preparatory phase of ELIXIR (2007–2012) was funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme as part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) process (grant agreement number 211601).