9th Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference in Aalborg (27-28 Oct 2025)

The 9th Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference held last week in Aalborg was a BIG success with great talks and networking in the Danish bioinformatics community. 125 participants joined in person with another 100 joining online from both national and international institutions in academia and industry. We had outstanding presentations by the four keynote speakers Lingzhao Fang (Aarhus University), Christine Orengo (University College London), Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku), and Tamas Korcsmaros (Imperial College London) and by Lars Juhl Jensen representing the sponsors ZS Discovery.

All of this would not have been possible without the core organizers Nadezhda T. Doncheva (KU) and Betina Wingreen Jensen (KU), the program committee Jakob Havgaard (KU), Katerina Nastou (SSI), Morten Nielsen (DTU), Palle Duun Rohde (AAU), Peter Sorensen (AU), Richard Röttger (SDU), Tugce Karaderi (KU), and the organizers Allan Stensballe (ATV) (AAU), Peter Sorensen (AU), Nadezhda T. Doncheva (KU), Betina Wingreen Jensen (KU), Veit Schwämmle (SDU), Jan Gorodkin (KU), and StudenterForskning Aalborg Officiel.

We congratulate the poster prize winners Giorgia Moranzoni (1st), Jacob Thoft Jacobsen (2nd), Foteini Aktypi (3rd) and express special thanks to the sponsors ZS Discovery, DDSA - Danish Data Science Academy, Novo Nordisk, and BioLib!

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Conference participants and posters during one of the coffee breaks.

ELIXIR Denmark attends ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool (20-24 July 2025)

ELIXIR Denmark had a great time at ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool engaging with colleagues and presenting our new BioGLUE project. We look forward to further interactions on the upcoming and exciting projects.

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Lead data scientist Nadya at the ISMB/ECCB 2025 poster session.

ELIXIR Denmark's steering committee members meet today (30 June 2025)

The steering committee members meet after the BioGLUE project initiated a couple of months ago. They continue to reshape the Danish node seeking to identify novel possibilities for the Danish bioinformatics community.

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ELIXIR Denmark team members. Steering committee members Peter, Allan, Troels, Bart, Jan, and Veit in the back, data scientist Nadya and node coordinator Betina in the front.

Updated ELIXIR Denmark website launches (30 June 2025)

The website shows the people involved in ELIXIR Denmark including the head of node, the coordinator, and steering group members on the People page as well as overview of services under Services.

ELIXIR Denmark team attends the All Hands Meeting in Thessaloniki (2 June 2025)

ELIXIR Denmark's newly appointed node coordinator Betina W. Jensen and data scientist Nadya T. Doncheva attended the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2025 in Thessaloniki together with Veit Schwämmle and Ana Isabel da Silva Mendes, who are currently actively developing and maintaining bio.tools.

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ELIXIR Denmark participants (from left to right: Ana, Betina, Veit, Nadya)

Head of Node attends the Heads of Nodes Retreat in Prague (13 May 2025)

Jan Gorodkin represents ELIXIR Denmark as newly appointed Head of Node at the annual Heads of Nodes Retreat to discuss the future of ELIXIR.

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ELIXIR Heads of Nodes Retreat participants

Novo Nordisk Foundation awards BioGLUE grant to Jan Gorodkin (20 Sept 2024)

The Novo Nordisk Foundation granted the infrastructure project BioGLUE and secured all funds for Denmark's membership in ELIXIR for the coming years. BioGLUE will tackle a common challenge in bioinformatics, the time-consuming task of gluing together different data formats. Instead of manual effort, the aim of BioGLUE is to create a digital infrastructure for automatic, seamless integration of various biological data using large language models.