Introduction to ELIXIR infrastructure in Italy

A brief introduction to the ELIXIR infrastructure in Italy. ELIXIR is a distributed infrastructure for life science data. ELIXIR is a intergovernmental organisation that brings together "bioinformatic resources" for life sciences from across Europe. Rhese resources include databases, software tools, training materials, best practices, computational resources, and more. The goal of ELIXIR is to coordinate and integrate these resources so that they form a single infrastructure. In turn, this infrastructure makes it easier for scientists to find and share data, exchange expertise and agree on best practice. ELIXIR connects national bioinformatic centres and EMBL-EBI into a sustainable European infrastructure for biological research data. ELIXIR underpins life science research across academia and industry.