ELIXIR

Unites Europe’s leading life sciences organisations to manage and safeguard data

ELIXIR coordinates more than 220 life science resources from across Europe so that they form a single infrastructure — making it easier for scientists to find and share data, exchange expertise, and agree on best practices. Resources include supercomputers, cloud storage, training materials, software tools, and databases. ELIXIR partners with GA4GH on initiatives such as ELIXIR Beacon and ELIXIR Cloud and AAI.

ELIXIR information
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Location
International
Thematic Area
Champions
Memorandum of understanding

Associated Driver Projects

ELIXIR Beacon

Builds on GA4GH standards to search human genetic data in the ELIXIR network

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ELIXIR Cloud and AAI

Develops a GA4GH-compliant federated cloud computing network in Europe

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European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI)

Federating genomic and health data access across Europe

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ELIXIR BioContainers

BioContainers is based on the popular frameworks Conda, Docker, and Singularity. This community-driven project provides the infrastructure and basic guidelines to create, manage, and distribute bioinformatics packages (e.g Conda) and containers (e.g Docker, Singularity).

Products Used
Tool Registry Service (TRS), Phenopackets, Task Execution Service (TES)

ELIXIR Cloud & AAI

A multi-cloud computing infrastructure allows life scientists within and beyond the ELIXIR network to run large-scale data analysis workloads in a federated network of ELIXIR compute and storage nodes.

Products Used
Workflow Execution Service (WES), Service Registry, Data Repository Service (DRS), Tool Registry Service (TRS), Task Execution Service (TES)

ELIXIR European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)

The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) is a service for permanent archiving and sharing of personally-identifiable genetic, phenotypic, and clinical data generated for the purposes of biomedical research projects or in the context of research-focused healthcare systems.

Products Used
Authorisation and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI), Data Use Ontology (DUO), Passports, Genetic Data Encryption (Crypt4GH), htsget, Phenopackets, Beacon

ELIXIR-Beacon

The Beacon Network search bar is a simple form with two options: assembly and variant. The assembly can be selected from the dropdown menu on the left side. The search bar then takes the desired variant information as a search term which will be sent to Beacons in a structured manner.

Products Used
Phenopackets, Data Repository Service (DRS), Tool Registry Service (TRS), Task Execution Service (TES), Workflow Execution Service (WES), Authorisation and Authentication Infrastructure (AAI), Beacon, Service Registry, Passports, Data Use Ontology (DUO), Genetic Data Encryption (Crypt4GH), htsget, refget, RNAget