Table 1.

ELIXIR Platforms and major outputs from the ELIXIR‐EXCELERATE grant

Platform	Headline outputs
Compute	Developed the ELIXIR Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (ELIXIR AAI) Demonstrated technology to transfer sensitive human data to secure clouds Container orchestration Hybrid cloud capacities Integrated solutions for ELIXIR Communities
Data	Defined criteria for and identified the ELIXIR Core Data Resources Contributed to the establishment of Global BioData Coalition Infrastructure to support community annotation and linking
Interoperability	Identified the set of ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability resources Bioschemas: schema.org submission and adoption for life sciences CWL: workflow interoperability and adoption Developed framework deploying interoperability services Bring your own data and capacity‐building workshops
Tools	Developed ELIXIR Tools and Service registry (bio.tools) Developed EDAM ontology for the annotation of tools and services by the community Developed the ELIXIR benchmarking platform (OpenEBench) making DREAM challenges results available
Training	Delivered over 850 training events, to over 19,000 people across 60 countries Established TeSS, ELIXIR's Training Portal, a registry of training events and materials Consolidation and expansion of the network of training providers in Europe Established the ELIXIR Train‐the‐Trainer programme, E‐learning platform and Virtual Coffee Room Developed the ELIXIR Training Toolkit