The European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, based in Cambridge, UK, is expanding its data storage and handling capacity to become the hub of the European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information (ELIXIR) initiative.
ELIXIR is funded by the European Commission and individual federal governments, non-profit organizations and agencies across Europe and aims to create a way to manage and store data from the life sciences and information from thousands of labs. Its establishment could create new positions in bioinformatics and information technology.
