We're ELIXIR Italy

We support open and FAIR life-science research with an innovative, ethical and accessible bioinformatics infrastructure that fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing.

About us
ELIXIR Italy (ELIXIR-IT) is the Italian node of ELIXIR Europe, coordinated by the National Research Council (CNR).
It acts as the Italian Infrastructure for Bioinformatics (IIB), bringing together national research institutions to provide integrated, high-quality services for the life sciences community.
31 members
CNR - Logo
  • CNR - Logo CNR
  • ENEA - Logo emblem ENEA
  • Università di Verona - Emblem Università di Verona
  • Università di Bari - Emblem Università di Bari
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Logo Istituto Superiore di Sanità
  • Cineca - Logo emblem CINECA
  • Università di Milano Bicocca - Logo emblem Università di Milano Bicocca
  • Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli - Logo emblem Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
  • Università di Roma Tor Vergata - Emblem Università di Tor Vergata
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • IFOM - Logo emblem IFOM
  • INFN - Logo emblem INFN
  • Università di Padova - Emblem Università di Padova
  • Università di Firenze - Emblem Università di Firenze
  • Università di Pisa - Emblem Università di Pisa
  • Università di Roma Sapienza - Emblem Università Sapienza Roma
  • Università di Viterbo - Emblem Università della Tuscia
  • Università di Napoli - Emblem Università di Napoli
  • Fondazione Telethon - Logo emblem Fondazione Telethon
  • Università di Milano - Emblem Università di Milano
  • Area Science Park - Logo emblem Area Science Park
  • Università di Parma - Emblem Università di Parma
  • CRS4 - Logo emblem CRS4
  • Università di Bologna - Emblem Università di Bologna
  • Fondazione Edmund Mach - Logo emblem Fondazione Edmund Mach
  • Università di Salerno - Emblem Università di Salerno
  • Università di Torino - Emblem Università di Torino
  • Consortium GARR - Logo emblem GARR
  • IZS - Logo emblem Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale
  • Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - Logo Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Emblem Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

How do we work?

ELIXIR Italy is the national node of a distributed infrastructure supporting life sciences through coordinated technical, scientific, and strategic activities.

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Platforms 6

Technical teams bringing together national experts develop ELIXIR’s technical vision and coordinate its technical activities.

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Communities 18

They bring together experts across the Node, and externally to coordinate activities within specific life science domains or technical areas.

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Focus Groups 9

Agile working groups exploring strategic areas, emerging needs, or pilot initiatives.

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Testimonial

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Portrait of Stefano D'Ascoli
Stefano D’Ascoli
Eusoft

The advantage of ELIXIR Italy lies in enabling the creation of an ecosystem of cross-contamination between the application of research results and the industrial world.

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Diego Bosco
Italbiotec

ELIXIR represents a unique opportunity for Italy to demonstrate how academic excellence in the omics sciences can become a primary driver of value creation across all industrial sectors, establishing a virtuous model of collaboration with the potential to serve as a global benchmark.

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Mario Aprile
Confindustria Bari-BAT

ELIXIR Italy offers large and small companies across the territory the opportunity to access a state-of-the-art laboratory for applied research in the life sciences, equipped with top-tier, internationally advanced instrumentation for genomics, proteomics and metabolomics analyses. Confindustria Bari and BAT is committed to promoting awareness of this valuable opportunity among its most innovative member companies, particularly those operating in the healthcare and information technology sectors.

ELIXIR Italy connects research and industry through strategic partnerships, shared innovation, expert training, and co-developed bioinformatics solutions.

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Our services

ELIXIR Italy offers integrated services to support life sciences research at every level, from high-throughput sequencing and advanced computing to training, data management, and bioinformatics tools.

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What's happening in ELIXIR Italy

Upcoming event

08 may
Rome

HUPO-PSI Meeting 2026

The HUPO-PSI Spring Meeting is a yearly event promoted by the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative, dedicated to fostering progress in data standardization.

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Job vacancies

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

#11-26011 PhD Beetle Sociality (m/f/d)

Medizinische Fakultät - University Clinic Heidelberg

Full Stack Developer – Health + Life Science Alliance Data Space (w/m/d)

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

#11-26010 PhD Odorant Perception (m/f/d)

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)

Research Group Leader

European Bioinformatics Institute

Research Group Leader

University of Liverpool and Syngenta

Metabolic Modelling & Deep Learning

Projects