ELIXIRxNextGenIT

Abstract

The aim of the project “ELIXIR x NextGenerationIT: consolidation of the Italian Infrastructure for Omics Data and Bioinformatics” (ELIXIRxNextGenIT) is to consolidate the capacity of the Italian node of the European Research Infrastructure ELIXIR to develop, provide and support reliable services for the Life Science research community and beyond. ELIXIRxNextGenIT will endow the country with a state-of-the-art Bioinformatics and integrative Omics infrastructure, providing access to the most advanced platforms for high-throughput generation and analysis of genomic, proteomic and metabolomic data. The project also aims to promote, develop and integrate ISBE-IT, with its Systems Biology oriented know-how and activities, into ELIXIR-IT. The project plan foresees the acquisition of cutting-edge equipment for “omics” data production as well as the creation of an Italian BioDataCenter, which will provide open access to a rich portfolio of Bioinformatics resources. This will be functional to the establishment in Italy of much-needed resources like a federated node of the European Genome-Phenome Archive (FEGA) and provide proper national infrastructural support to the forthcoming European “Genome Data Infrastructure”. Their impact on and relevance for the Life Science and Biomedical Italian communities will continue to grow during the following years, as those communities will progressively and inexorably move towards data-oriented and quantitative molecular approaches in their respective fields of competence.

Funded by the European Union—NextGenerationEU through ‘Italiadomani— PNRR – “ELIXIR x NextGenerationIT: Consolidamento dell’Infrastruttura Italiana per i Dati Omici e la Bioinformatica – ElixirxNextGenIT” – IR0000010.