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3 months agoAna Teresa Freitas, the ELIXIR-PT Head of Node, and Inês Chaves, the Deputy Head of Node, took part in the ELIXIR Heads of Nodes (HoN) Teleconference yesterday. The Heads of Nodes Committee plays a vital role in creating and approving the scientific and technical strategy for ELIXIR. -
3 months agoLast week, Sérgio Matos from UAveiro (ELIXIR-PT Technical coordinator) attended the ELIXIR Compute Platform 2024 Face-to-Face Meeting in Brno, Czech Republic. The main purpose of his attendance was to gain a better understanding of the platform's work plan for 2024-2026 and to identify potential collaboration areas from the perspective of the ELIXIR national node. -
5 months agoAfter the success of the 1st year, the Microbiome PT Summit returns for a second edition, but this time in a face-to-face fashion in Lisbon. Are you involved in Microbiome research? Then, you can't miss this summit. -
10 months agoThe "Bioinformatics Portuguese League" (Liga Portuguesa de Bioinformática - LPB) is a national contest on the scope of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The LPB has been created for higher education students with interest in those areas of knowledge and the national Bioinformatics community. It promotes and benefits the integration of future researchers and professionals on Bioinformatics and encourages active learning -
1 year agoThe ELIXIR CONVERGE Work Packages 1 & 2 face-to-face meeting was held in Prague, Czech Republic from March 29th to March 31st, 2023. BioData.pt was represented by Jorge Oliveira. On the first day, parallel sessions were held for WP1/WP2 where the last deliverables and milestones of the respective work packages were discussed. The session included the M1.3 - Adoption of -
1 year agoThe 2nd workshop of the OATEN (Open Access Tools for Effective Management) staff exchange, entwined with the ELIXIR Training Program in Management - ELITMa being developed under ELIXIR-CONVERGE, will take place from March 28th-30th, in Lisbon, hosted by BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal. The event will be hybrid, with 8 ELIXIR Nodes and ELIXIR Hub attending in Lisbon, and 1 Node -
1 year agoBioData.pt recently attended the Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) Pillar II Workshop in Sweden, alongside other members of the Portuguese team such as Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, University of Aveiro, and Técnico Lisboa. The workshop focused on the Starter Kit of the project, which serves as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate how a set of applications and components can -
1 year agoThe Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) organized an introductory course on best practices in Research Data Management (RDM) which took place online on February 17, 2023. The course was provided in collaboration with BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal and was designed to disseminate best practices in Data Management and teach the basics of creating and using Data Management Plans -
1 year agoBioData.pt hosted a new Day2Day Data Management Course aimed at Life Sciences researchers. This one-day course was delivered by trainers Daniel Faria, Jorge Oliveira and Carolina Ventura Costa, and was attended by a total of 100 trainees from four BioData.pt Associates, namely: CIIMAR (Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental) - 28 participants FCUL (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de -
1 year agoIn February 2022 the Portuguese Node of ELIXIR - BioData.pt hired the first Data Steward for Life Sciences in Portugal to carry out work at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Carolina Ventura Costa supports researchers and advises them on handling their data according to FAIR and Open Science principles. The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência is a research and innovation multidisciplinary