Bioinform@Exe
Bioinform@Exe
Posted by hg593
5 February 2026
We hosted Xenia Perez-Sitja, Communities Manager at the ELIXIR-UK Node and the Earlham Institute on Thursday 5th February 2026. She gave us an overview to the many benefits of Exeter University’s membership to the ELIXIR-UK Node.
Some examples are the federated development of integrated tools and services, monthly life sciences clubs including reseearch data management (RDM), training, and human data, which you can sign up for here. We are also fans of the TeSS training course hub, Workflow hub, and interlinked FAIR Cookbook, FAIR Sharing and RDM Toolkit. We also heard about some of the challenges around how AI operates around open science resources, on which ELIXIR focus groups and the ELIXIR community has recently reported.
We then heard from Hugh Gifford about the plans to take Bioinform@Exe into its next chapter, thanks to the £5,000 ELIXIR-UK Flexible Bursary: resourcing the Bioinform@Exe community of practice, becoming a long-term sustainable venture, spearheading more effective and efficient collaboration, upskilling the biosciences community in research coding, and maximising benefit to community members:
There are many existing networks, departments and communities – academics (new PGR students – struggling and uninitiated or keen and capable, early career researchers, and established academics), professionals (Research software engineering & analytics, University Networks/faculties e.g. NIHR BRC, Exeter Health Analytics, IDSAI, Infrastructure e.g. Research IT, HPC, Isambard GW4, admin and communications staff, managers who may help us obtain internal funding in future) and external partners (e.g. Cefas, Met office, industry commercial companies e.g. Google, Nvidia, alumni, and the ELIXIR-UK Node and linked groups e.g. HDR-UK) – so there’s a question of how we can connect well for the highest possible mutual value.
Please join the network, get involved, make some suggestions, help us organise an event, join the team – email us at bioinform@exeter.ac.uk and/or fill in our online form (QR code below, link here)
