The Italian node of ELIXIR, called Elixir-ITA, coordinates existing national bioinformatics services and provides key services to ELIXIR. Led by the National Research Council of Italy, Elixir-ITA includes 12 partners such as universities and high-performance computing groups. It establishes procedures for additional participants to contribute relevant resources through open calls and peer review. Services provided include databases for alternative splicing, untranslated mRNA regions, immunoglobulin sequences, and fungal ribosomal RNA, as well as tools for modeling splicing isoforms and predicting protein disorder.