Five EU Member States and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
have signed a memorandum of understanding to create an infrastructure to
manage and safeguard biological information. The goal of the
initiative, known as European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological
Information, or ELIXIR, is to ensure open access to information about
genes, proteins, complex networks and other important biological
information in support of life science research. The five countries
involved are Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, with
other countries expected to join in the future.
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