This session, in Genome BC's Data Literacy series, explores ELIXIR, Europe's premier intergovernmental organization dedicated to advancing life sciences through bioinformatics infrastructure. Tim Hubbard, the director of ELIXIR and a renowned expert in bioinformatics, presents how ELIXIR's innovative initiatives foster collaboration and drive scientific breakthroughs. Discover how ELIXIR integrates and sustains bioinformatics resources across Europe […]
The next webinar in our Data Literacy Series will explore two innovative platforms reshaping health research. Genome BC's Health Metadata Commons serves as a central hub for storing and sharing metadata related to human biological samples and omics research data. This facilitates data reuse, accelerates scientific breakthroughs and advances personalized medicine. Meanwhile, protocols.io provides a […]
Some scientists consider the biodiversity crisis to be a greater threat than climate change. Over 37,000 species worldwide (28% of all species) are at risk of extinction. A reference genome is a digital nucleic acid sequence database assembled by scientists as a representative example of the set of genes in one idealized individual organism of […]