ELIXIR-UK launch BioFAIR
BioFAIR is an exciting new digital research infrastructure that enables the compute resources of ELIXIR and partners to be provided to researchers throughout the UK. Backed by £34M in funding from UK Research & Innovation, BioFAIR will maximise the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability (FAIR) and Reproducibility of life sciences data and workflows. Here at the Australian BioCommons, we can’t wait to work alongside BioFAIR into the future!
The BioCommons’ ongoing partnership with ELIXIR-Europe (since 2020) gave us the chance to share tips and tricks to help the BioFAIR team draft up their proposal. Moving forward, BioFAIR plans to:
“…provide a set of national analysis platforms, in particular a UK Galaxy server and a cloud-based platform like NERC EDS, CyVerse or CLIMB. These general platforms should be complemented by developing dedicated solutions for research communities with an engagement process pioneered by the Australian BioCommons.”
We hope to find lots of opportunities to work with BioFAIR as they implement our engagement process, and are excited for future collaborations working towards our shared aims of enhancing digital life sciences research through providing world class compute resources and infrastructure.
Be sure to follow @BioFAIRUK on X, or find them on Mastodon @BioFAIRUK@mstdn.science, and stay tuned for more exciting updates from them moving forward!