BY-COVID related workflows

ELIXIR is an intergovernmental organisation that brings together life science resources from across Europe. These resources include databases, software tools, training materials, cloud storage and supercomputers.

The goal of ELIXIR is to coordinate these resources so that they form a single infrastructure. This infrastructure makes it easier for scientists to find and share data, exchange expertise, and agree on best practices. Ultimately, it will help them gain new insights into how living ...

The BeYond-COVID project (BY-COVID) aims to make COVID-19 data accessible to scientists in laboratories but also to anyone who can use it, such as medical staff in hospitals or government officials.

Pursuing to go beyond SARS-CoV-2 data, the project will serve as the groundwork to make data from other infectious diseases open and accessible to everyone.

The BY-COVID project strives to simplify data access and reuse through four key ‘pillars’:

1. Mobilise data: ensuring ...

Team for general BY-COVID contributions

Background information

Task 5.2 aims to demonstrate how mobilisation of real-world population, health and care data across national borders can provide answers to policy-relevant research questions. Eventually, it aims to prototype a workflow that is standard for population health research. Here, the research question is approached by identifying a causal effect that allows to evaluate a public health intervention. As such, a methodology for approaching causal inference when conducting ...