National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)
NBIS provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community.
www.umu.seHere’s the latest I can share based on current public information.
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NBIS remains Sweden’s distributed national bioinformatics infrastructure, providing research support, data management, and high-performance computing capabilities to life sciences researchers. It also serves as Sweden’s node in ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for biological information.[4][8]
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In 2024–2025 NBIS outlined continued activities to support Swedish life sciences, including training, data management, and advanced bioinformatics services, with a structure that accommodates evolving needs as new techniques emerge.[2]
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A notable branding update occurred in 2026: two SciLifeLab platforms were renamed, with NBIS (formerly the Bioinformatics platform) becoming the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden. This aligns NBIS’s role as a national platform and ELIXIR node.[7]
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NBIS operates across multiple sites in Sweden (e.g., Uppsala, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Lund, Linköping, and Umeå) and collaborates with SNIC, SciLifeLab, and ELIXIR to provide tailored data analysis, imaging informatics, and computational resources.[3][5][6]
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For organizational and collaboration context, NBIS is supported by Swedish funding and major research institutions (e.g., Vetenskapsrådet, Science for Life Laboratory) and acts as a gateway to ELIXIR’s Swedish node and European initiatives.[1][4]
Illustration: NBIS continues to function as a national hub for bioinformatics in Sweden, coordinating local expertise and connecting researchers to European infrastructure, while expanding its training and data governance capabilities.[2][4]
If you’d like, I can pull in more recent press releases or provide a succinct timeline of NBIS milestones with sources.