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Activities

How the Bologna node contributes to ELIXIR Italy and ELIXIR Europe.

The University of Bologna node contributes to ELIXIR at both the national and the European level, linking local research and service development to the broader ELIXIR Italy and ELIXIR Europe scientific programme.

ELIXIR Italy

ELIXIRxNextGenIT

The node participates in ELIXIRxNextGenIT, the PNRR-funded project consolidating the Italian infrastructure for omics data and bioinformatics within ELIXIR Italy, contributing predictive bioinformatics services, data resources and expertise in variant interpretation and protein modelling to the national infrastructure.

ELIXIR Europe — Platforms

Tools Platform

Active contribution through the registration, maintenance and benchmarking of predictors (e.g. BUSCA, DeepSig, CoCoNat, PhD-SNP family) in bio.tools and in community benchmarking efforts coordinated with the Tools Platform, including leading the FAIRification of the 3D-BioInfo PPI Benchmark and Single Cell Omics BE1 benchmark datasets — see Benchmark FAIRification.

Data Platform

Contribution to data interoperability and resource development, supporting the construction of a shared Rare Disease Research Ecosystem of interoperable, accessible and usable data resources and tools together with the Tools and Data Platforms.

ELIXIR Europe — Communities

Rare Disease Community

The node co-leads activities within the Rare Disease Community and contributes to the AMP4RD commissioned service, supporting the Rare Disease implementation study with predictive variant-effect and protein-structure methods, alongside participation in the Community's 2026–2028 roadmap actions, the HDTR work programme, and the ENIGMA and BioChef initiatives.

Federated Human Data Community

Active contribution to the development of interoperable, federated approaches for human genomic and phenotypic data, complementing the node's work on rare disease variant interpretation.

ELIXIR Europe — Focus Groups

AI Ecosystem Focus Group

Participation in the AI Ecosystem Focus Group, contributing deep-learning expertise in protein and variant prediction to ELIXIR's cross-platform effort to connect AI tools, data and infrastructure across the ELIXIR community.

Summary

LevelActivityRole
ELIXIR ItalyELIXIRxNextGenITParticipant – predictive bioinformatics & data services
ELIXIR EuropeTools PlatformActive contributor – tool registration & benchmarking
ELIXIR EuropeData PlatformActive contributor – ecosystem & interoperability building
ELIXIR EuropeRare Disease CommunityCo-lead / active contributor, incl. AMP4RD commissioned service
ELIXIR EuropeFederated Human Data CommunityActive contributor
ELIXIR EuropeAI Ecosystem Focus GroupActive contributor

Publications — ELIXIR collaborations

Selected publications co-authored by node members in the context of ELIXIR-wide collaborations (names in bold are current members of the node's core team):

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