Ireland joins international research organisation – ELIXIR

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D., and Minister for Training, Skills and Innovation John Halligan T.D, have announced today (Friday) that Ireland has joined ELIXIR, the international research organisation for the Life Sciences. Ireland has become ELIXIR’s nineteenth member.

Developments in genome sequencing have led to a rapid growth in life science data. ELIXIR, the European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological Information, is creating an infrastructure that integrates research data from across Europe and ensures that it is easily accessible to members. ELIXIR has been awarded €19 million from Horizon 2020, the European Union’s programme to support research and innovation, to accelerate the implementation of Europe’s life science data infrastructure over the next four years.

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