ELIXIR-STEERS aims to help life science researchers to access national data sets and conduct large-scale, cross-border analysis of data from across Europe. It will promote good software management practices and support life scientists with their software management needs. It will collect these good practices into a toolkit for green and reproducible software and workflows.

Objectives

ELIXIR STEERS ensures that ELIXIR continues to operate as a world-class Research Infrastructure (RI), and continues to enable wider participation in computational life science research. It will focus on a new and critical area of scientific need: the provision of software and workflows to life scientists, maximising productivity in research, and minimising consequent energy usage.

It will:

• Create a toolkit for robust, reproducible, and green software and workflows.
• Enable cross-border data analysis in the life sciences by embedding common practice across the whole European Research Area via the ELIXIR Nodes.
• Partner in Europe and internationally for global competitiveness and sustainability.

This projects is divided into 5 workpackages:

• WP1: Coordination and support
• WP2: Implementation of research software best practices through ELIXIR Communities
• WP3: Infrastructure services to enable adoption and deployment of software best practices
• WP4: Strengthening and equipping ELIXIR Nodes and Node staff with key skills and resources in organisation, management and training
• WP5: Communications, outreach, industry and international

ELIXIR Norway is involved in WP3 and WP4

For more information, see: STEERS