National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) and the Swedish node in ELIXIR (the European infrastructure for biological information)

NBIS will 2025–2028 continue our activities in providing excellence in bioinformatics support to researchers in Sweden, enabling world-class life science by offering support, infrastructure and advanced training.

NBIS coordinates bioinformatics support and makes bioinformatics easily accessible for life science researchers.NBIS is the Swedish node in ELIXIR, contributing with the Human Protein Atlas (ELIXIR Core DataResource), the Metabolic Atlas, activities on sensitive data (1+MG, FEGA, GDI, Bigpicture), data management, capacity building and advanced training.

ELIXIR provides access to data and tools, and enables the member countries to join efforts for cost-efficient systems development.Bioinformatics is rapidly developing and enters new scientific disciplines.

We foresee increasing needs to emerge from a) New or rapidly transforming technology areas, e.g. single-cell and spatially resolved omics and computational structural biology; b) Precision medicine, for which the formation of a European human genomics data infrastructure including analytical tools, access to medical imaging and AI based tools will be instrumental; and c) Data-driven life science requiring open data, professional data management and data FAIRification, increased reuse of existing data, improved reproducibility and more advanced AI and machine-learning methods.

NBIS will meet these demands by providing excellence, effective use of resources, and reproducibility, as detailed in the application.