BBMRI-ERIC is a research infrastructure of biobanks and biomolecular resources. Our main goal is to provide expertise and services, advancing the use of European sample collections and its data for the benefit of human health. Our activities are on a non-economic basis and primarily intended for our member countries.
Services are free for those biobanks that are located in a member state.
Access can be on-site or online, dependent on the requested service.
Reproducible data in research is key and in order to achieve that, you need high quality samples and data as starting point. BBMRI-ERIC enables biobanks to work with high quality samples and its associated data and supports controlled access to the wider research community, being a true gateway to health.
ELIXIR unites Europe's leading life science organisations in managing and safeguarding the increasing volume of data being generated by publicly funded research. It coordinates, integrates and sustains bioinformatics resources across its member states and enables users in academia and industry to access services that are vital for their research.
An overview on ELIXIR services can be found here.
Whilst there may be a charge for accessing some national compute facilities, the majority of services are free for users. For example, depositing and accessing data from databases is free, as are training courses, interoperiblity services and tools for the analsyis of data.
Users access the services virtually (online) and directly with the resource they are interested in.
No application to or access via the ELIXIR Hub is required.
ELIXIR coordinates and develops life science resources across Europe so that researchers can more easily find, analyse and share data, exchange expertise, and implement best practices. This makes it possible for them to gain greater insights into how living organisms work.
INFRAFRONTIER is the European research infrastructure for the development, phenotyping, archiving and distribution of model mammalian genomes. It is formed by more than 25 research centres in 14 European countries and Canada. In INFRAFRONTIER these partners join forces to commonly advance the basic understanding of human health and disease using mouse and rodent models.
Some of the INFRAFRONTIER resources and services are provided free of charge, others entail user fees to recover costs.
There are periodic Open Calls to fund researchers, for detailed information see the INFRAFRONTIER website.
Access modalities vary with the kind of resource or service requested.
INFRAFRONTIER provides access to unique resources and expertise to advance the understanding of human health and disease using mammalian models. Our users can rely on highest quality standards and long-standing experience. INFRAFRONTIER's one-stop-shop facilitates efficient research.
ISBE empowers European researchers across academia, clinics and industry to implement systems biology approaches addressing how the dynamic interactions between biological components (molecules, cells, tissues, organs) leads to the functioning of living organisms. ISBE fosters project collaborations between experimental and computational teams, and with complementary research infrastructures. ISBE actively supports scientists in facilitating model-compliant data generation, making their research assets FAIR (i.e. findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) and creating predictive computational multi-scale models of biological systems based on integration of highly diverse data sets. In addition, ISBE will provide training for infrastructure users and providers to offer efficient services.
The costs depend on the kind of service requested. All web-based services and simple advice by ISBE personnel is free; more extensive support is project based.
Access can be on-site or remote, depending on the kind of service requested.
Systems biology is a branch of the life sciences that helps to obtain in-depth understanding through integrating multiple and diverse data sets in quantitative computational models. These models are able to predict the behaviour of biological systems based on experimental data about the interplay of molecules, cells and tissues in time and space. Validation and analysis of such predictions improve the model and gives insight into the interplay of system components in time and space. The success of this approach is illustrated with a number of examples.