Strengthening global collaboration

As users access ELIXIR services from across the world and many ELIXIR services are run under international funding arrangements, collaboration with partners beyond Europe is an integral part of ELIXIR’s mission.

ELIXIR has established formal collaborations with international initiatives related to research infrastructures and bioinformatics. It collaborates with GA4GH in developing standards for responsible sharing of genomics data, and it regularly interacts with the Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on Global Research Infrastructures of the G7.

• Three separate visits to the ELIXIR Hub by Australian delegations, primarily to develop a Collaboration Strategy between ELIXIR and the newly initiated Australian

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Facilitating the attendance of delegates from Australia (Australian BioCommons), South Africa (H3ABioNet) and USA (NIH) at the ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2019. A collaboration with the GSO to develop a self assessment framework for Global Research Infrastructures, which was subsequently published as a guide for other research infrastructures. Organising several special sessions at the ISMB/ECCB joint conference Developing a collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility alongside EMBL-EBI to crosslink