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View article: Credit Default Prediction with Projected Quantum Feature Models and Ensembles
Credit Default Prediction with Projected Quantum Feature Models and Ensembles Open
Accurate prediction of future loan defaults is a critical capability for financial institutions that provide lines of credit. For institutions that issue and manage extensive loan volumes, even a slight improvement in default prediction pr…
View article: Fostering and sustaining collaborative innovation: Insights from ELIXIR Europe's life science Communities
Fostering and sustaining collaborative innovation: Insights from ELIXIR Europe's life science Communities Open
Communities of experts collaborating on scientific or technical projects are drivers of innovation across the life sciences. The ELIXIR research infrastructure organises scientific- and technological-themed communities as one of its key me…
View article: Establishing the ELIXIR Microbiome Community
Establishing the ELIXIR Microbiome Community Open
Microbiome research has grown substantially over the past decade in terms of the range of biomes sampled, identified taxa, and the volume of data derived from the samples. In particular, experimental approaches such as metagenomics, metaba…
View article: Self-reported desistance and help-seeking approaches of child sexual offenders on the darknet
Self-reported desistance and help-seeking approaches of child sexual offenders on the darknet Open
This study analysed posts from a darknet forum to examine approaches to desistance from offending among undetected child sexual offenders. Forum users discussed a range of approaches, but some were harmful to children, including the use of…
View article: Open and Sustainable AI: challenges, opportunities and the road ahead in the life sciences (October 2025 -- Version 2)
Open and Sustainable AI: challenges, opportunities and the road ahead in the life sciences (October 2025 -- Version 2) Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently seen transformative breakthroughs in the life sciences, expanding possibilities for researchers to interpret biological information at an unprecedented capacity, with novel applications and advance…
View article: Code-Craft: Hierarchical Graph-Based Code Summarization for Enhanced Context Retrieval
Code-Craft: Hierarchical Graph-Based Code Summarization for Enhanced Context Retrieval Open
Understanding and navigating large-scale codebases remains a significant challenge in software engineering. Existing methods often treat code as flat text or focus primarily on local structural relationships, limiting their ability to prov…
View article: Drivers and deterrents of child sexual offending: Analysis of offender interactions on the darknet
Drivers and deterrents of child sexual offending: Analysis of offender interactions on the darknet Open
This study examined 17 threads on a darknet forum for undetected online and contact child sexual offenders (CSOs) to identify key drivers and deterrents of offending and to inform intervention approaches. CSOs on the forum normalised sexua…
View article: Making PBPK models more reproducible in practice
Making PBPK models more reproducible in practice Open
Systems biology aims to understand living organisms through mathematically modeling their behaviors at different organizational levels, ranging from molecules to populations. Modeling involves several steps, from determining the model purp…
View article: Systems Biology in ELIXIR: modelling in the spotlight
Systems Biology in ELIXIR: modelling in the spotlight Open
In this white paper, we describe the founding of a new ELIXIR Community - the Systems Biology Community - and its proposed future contributions to both ELIXIR and the broader community of systems biologists in Europe and worldwide. The Com…
View article: Establishing the ELIXIR Microbiome Community
Establishing the ELIXIR Microbiome Community Open
Microbiome research has grown substantially over the past decade in terms of the range of biomes sampled, identified taxa, and the volume of data derived from the samples. In particular, experimental approaches such as metagenomics, metaba…
View article: ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development
ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development Open
Toxicology has been an active research field for many decades, with academic, industrial and government involvement. Modern omics and computational approaches are changing the field, from merely disease-specific observational models into t…
View article: Preprint: "Be Sustainable", Recommendations for FAIR Resources in Life Sciences research: EOSC-Life's Lessons
Preprint: "Be Sustainable", Recommendations for FAIR Resources in Life Sciences research: EOSC-Life's Lessons Open
"Be SURE - Be SUstainable REcommendations" The main goals and challenges for the Life Science (LS) communities in the Open Science framework are to increase reuse and sustainability of data resources, software tools, and workflows, especia…
View article: Preprint: "Be Sustainable Recommendations" for FAIR Resources in Life Sciences research: EOSC-Life's Lessons
Preprint: "Be Sustainable Recommendations" for FAIR Resources in Life Sciences research: EOSC-Life's Lessons Open
"Be SuRe - Be Sustainable Recommendations" The main goals and challenges for the Life Science (LS) communities in the Open Science framework are to increase reuse and sustainability of data resources, software tools, and workflows, especia…
View article: Preprint: "Be Sustainable Recommendations" for FAIR Resources in Life Sciences research: EOSC-Life's Lessons
Preprint: "Be Sustainable Recommendations" for FAIR Resources in Life Sciences research: EOSC-Life's Lessons Open
"Be SuRe - Be Sustainable Recommendations" The main goals and challenges for the Life Science (LS) communities in the Open Science framework are to increase reuse and sustainability of data resources, software tools, and workflows, especia…
View article: Sustainability of FAIR Life Science Resources and Projects: Lessons Learned from EOSC-Life Research Infrastructures
Sustainability of FAIR Life Science Resources and Projects: Lessons Learned from EOSC-Life Research Infrastructures Open
Life Science (LS) communities must increase the sustainability of their data resources, software tools, and workflows, to allow their long-term re-use by the wider scientific community, especially in future applications involving machine-b…
View article: Sustainability of FAIR Life Science Resources and Projects: Lessons Learned from EOSC-Life Research Infrastructures
Sustainability of FAIR Life Science Resources and Projects: Lessons Learned from EOSC-Life Research Infrastructures Open
Life Science (LS) communities must increase the sustainability of their data resources, software tools, and workflows, to allow their long-term re-use by the wider scientific community, especially in future applications involving machine-b…
View article: standard-GEM: standardization of open-source genome-scale metabolic models
standard-GEM: standardization of open-source genome-scale metabolic models Open
The field of metabolic modelling at the genomescale continues to grow with more models being created and curated. This comes with an increasing demand for adopting common principles regarding transparency and versioning, in addition to sta…
View article: Systems Biology in ELIXIR: modelling in the spotlight
Systems Biology in ELIXIR: modelling in the spotlight Open
In this white paper, we describe the founding of a new ELIXIR Community - the Systems Biology Community - and its proposed future contributions to both ELIXIR and the broader community of systems biologists in Europe and worldwide. The Com…
View article: The future of food and nutrition in ELIXIR
The future of food and nutrition in ELIXIR Open
Non-communicable diseases are on the rise and are often related to food choices; nutrition affects infectious diseases too. Therefore, there is growing interest in research on public and personal health, as related to food, nutrition behav…
View article: Community-driven ELIXIR activities in single-cell omics
Community-driven ELIXIR activities in single-cell omics Open
Single-cell omics (SCO) has revolutionized the way and the level of resolution by which life science research is conducted, not only impacting our understanding of fundamental cell biology but also providing novel solutions in cutting-edge…
View article: IoT attack prediction using big Bot-IoT data
IoT attack prediction using big Bot-IoT data Open
Bot-IoT is a recent and publicly available dataset that depicts attack traffic launched by BotNets against internet of things (IoT) networks. Normal (non-attack) traffic is represented by over 9,000 of the approximately 73,000,000 instance…
View article: ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development
ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development Open
Toxicology has been an active research field for many decades, with academic, industrial and government involvement. Modern omics and computational approaches are changing the field, from merely disease-specific observational models into t…
ELIXIR‐EXCELERATE: establishing Europe's data infrastructure for the life science research of the future Open
A new inter-governmental research infrastructure, ELIXIR, aims to unify bioinformatics resources and life science data across Europe, thereby facilitating their mining and (re-)use.
View article: ELIXIR Plant sciences 2020-2023 Roadmap
ELIXIR Plant sciences 2020-2023 Roadmap Open
The Plant Sciences Community is an interdisciplinary group of researchers with diverse backgrounds from computer science to different fields of plant biology. We answer the needs of both bioinformaticians and plant biologists.The Community…
View article: The ELIXIR Human Copy Number Variations Community: building bioinformatics infrastructure for research
The ELIXIR Human Copy Number Variations Community: building bioinformatics infrastructure for research Open
Copy number variations (CNVs) are major causative contributors both in the genesis of genetic diseases and human neoplasias. While “High-Throughput” sequencing technologies are increasingly becoming the primary choice for genomic screening…