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
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  • CNR - Logo CNR
  • Università di Pisa - Emblem Università di Pisa
  • Università di Firenze - Emblem Università di Firenze
  • Università di Parma - Emblem Università di Parma
  • Università di Torino - Emblem Università di Torino
  • Università di Salerno - Emblem Università di Salerno
  • Università di Padova - Emblem Università di Padova
  • Università di Napoli - Emblem Università di Napoli
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • Università di Viterbo - Emblem Università della Tuscia
  • IFOM - Logo emblem IFOM
  • Cineca - Logo emblem CINECA
  • Area Science Park - Logo emblem Area Science Park
  • Università di Verona - Emblem Università di Verona
  • ENEA - Logo emblem ENEA
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità - Logo Istituto Superiore di Sanità
  • Università di Bologna - Emblem Università di Bologna
  • Fondazione Telethon - Logo emblem Fondazione Telethon
  • Fondazione Edmund Mach - Logo emblem Fondazione Edmund Mach
  • Consortium GARR - Logo emblem GARR
  • Università di Roma Tor Vergata - Emblem Università di Tor Vergata
  • Università di Roma Sapienza - Emblem Università Sapienza Roma
  • Università di Bari - Emblem Università di Bari
  • CRS4 - Logo emblem CRS4
  • Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - Logo Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Emblem Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  • Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli - Logo emblem Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
  • Università di Milano - Emblem Università di Milano
  • IZS - Logo emblem Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale
  • INFN - Logo emblem INFN
  • Università di Milano Bicocca - Logo emblem Università di Milano Bicocca

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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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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