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BioData.pt has published in 2022 an article at F1000Research reflecting on the socioeconomic impact of its activities during the period 2017-2021, in the light of the recommendations of OECD, ESFRI and RI-PATHS to monitor and evaluate the impact of European Research Infrastructures. Being BioData.pt the Portuguese node of the ESFRI landmark ELIXIR, and being understaffed with respect to managing human

The OATEN staff exchange aims at familiarizing ELIXIR Nodes with open-access tools for effective Node management. Several workshops are planned covering strategic management, financial management and project management, which are aligned with the Project Management Module of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE ELIXIR training program in Management - ELITMa. The kickoff of this project took place in Bergen in November 2022, with a

The Portuguese ELIXIR Node has been testing and providing feedback for the Local EGA and Beacon v2 repositories, being developed by ELIXIR Spain, at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). Following these efforts, three ELIXIR Nodes, Portugal, Spain, and EMBL-EBI, joined to create recommendations and tutorials for other countries wishing to create a Local EGA node and Beacon, based on

BioData.pt Chief Technical Officer, Jorge Oliveira, is present at the 9th Research Data Management Forum ( 9º Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação), which is being held this Thursday and Friday, November 24th and 25th, 2022, at the University of Évora. This Forum is organized by the FCT-FCCN – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, through its Scientific Computing

The Consolidation Course of the first edition of the BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal Training Data Stewards for Life Sciences Program took place from the 15th to the 17th of November, 2022, at the Collaborative Center of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, in Oeiras, with the purpose of training the first generation of Data Stewards for the life sciences to support the

BioData.pt Executive Director, Ana Portugal Melo, is present this Thursday, November 17th, 2022, at the kick-off meeting of the new Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project, in Brussels, Belgium. The new €40 million GDI project, coordinated by ELIXIR, has the purpose of unlocking the potential of human genomics for healthcare, research and innovation, and is jointly funded by the European Commission

BioData.pt participates in the PT_MedGen Conference, which takes place this Thursday, the 3rd of November, 2022, at the National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge, in Lisbon. The PT_MedGen Conference is dedicated to the ongoing initiatives and challenges for establishing a National Strategy for Genomic Medicine. The opening session of this conference has the presence of the Minister of Territorial

BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal, in collaboration with several other organizations, namely ELIXIR NL and ELIXIR SE has designed a program to train the first generation of Data Stewards for the life sciences, to support the implementation of data management, open science and FAIR data principles in Portuguese R&I organizations. It will unfold from February to November 2022, allowing trainees to

The ELIXIR CONVERGE Work Packages 1 & 8/9 face-to-face meeting took place from September 21st to 23rd, 2022, in Padova, Italy, and BioData.pt was represented by our CTO, Jorge Oliveira. The first day was focused on the deliverables and actions towards the end of the project, with a special concern for the future of the developed resources. The second day

The Portuguese Node of ELIXIR (BioData.pt) is present at the 8th ELIXIR All Hands Meeting, which has started today, June 7th, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and will run until June 10th, 2022. The most important meeting of the European Distributed Infrastructure for Biological Data brings together, this time face-to-face, members of the ELIXIR community from across the 22 ELIXIR National