The Politecnico di Milano has joined the ELIXIR-IIB (Italian Bionformatics Infrastructure) Joint Research Unit, the Italian “node” of ELIXIR, the European research infrastructure for biological data.
Prof. Marco Masseroli from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering was appointed by the Rector as representative of the Politecnico in the Joint Research Unit General Assembly, while Prof. Rosario Michael Piro will act as its local technical coordinator.
ELIXIR’s primary objective is to support research in the field of life sciences and their translational activities to medicine, environment, biotechnological industries and society. The Italian node of ELIXIR is coordinated by the National Research Council and currently includes 25 partners including research institutes, universities and technological institutions.
ELIXIR-IIB, which has the ambition to raise an Italian Infrastructure for Bioinformatics distributed across multiple centers, aims to bring together all the Italian researchers working in the field of bioinformatics, encouraging the exchange and development of skills, integrating the various Italian bioinformatics resources that share international scientific recognition and are publicly available, and to contribute to their integration within the European infrastructure.
Another primary objective of ELIXIR-IIB is to organize training activities, both at basic and advanced levels, covering various application fields of Bioinformatics in order to encourage the training of young bioinformaticians, since demand for them is booming both at the national and international levels.