Biodiversity
About the Community
The ELIXIR Biodiversity Community addresses a wide range of scientific knowledge fundamental to biodiversity studies. This mainly includes the assessment of species diversity on Earth, their functions, and their response to changing environments. The requirements behind the achievement of such objectives reside in the availability of curated data infrastructures able to provide high-quality data and related analysis tools, which satisfy global standards such as those based on FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Among the goals of this community, we can list:
- Supporting and promoting the development of data standards and best practices in biodiversity research
- Promoting tools, workflows and data sources' usability and interoperability
- Enhancing the networking and communication with broader audiences, including non-domain experts.
Contribution of ELIXIR Italy
ELIXIR-IT supports European biodiversity research through several bioinformatics and scientific communication activities including:
- Biodiversity-related data exploration and curation
- Development of data analysis tools and workflows
- Creation of data harmonization schemas
- Implementation of FAIR data principles
- Development of data sharing schemas within national network of stakeholders and scientists
- Substantial contribution to the whitepapers (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.73825.2; https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.133724.2) describing the community activities, challenges and perspectives
- Contribution to the current implementation study (starting date: 01-06-2023) entitled “Biodiversity Networks for ELIXIR”
