ELIXIR

ELIXIR (the European life-sciences infrastructure for biological information) is an initiative that allows life science laboratories across Europe to share and store their research data as part of an organised network.

ELIXIR aims to ensure that biological data is integrated into a federated system easily accessible by the scientific community.

[1] ELIXIR's mission is to build a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to medicine and the environment, the bio-industries and society.

ELIXIR represents the joining of independent bioscience facilities to create an integrated network that addresses the complex problem of biological data storage and management.

ELIXIR supports users addressing the Grand Challenges in life science research across diverse domains.

As of September 2023 the following countries and EMBL-EBI have signed the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA) in order to become a member of ELIXIR: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

[6] By the end of 2012 ELIXIR completed its five-year preparatory phase funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme[7] as part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) process.