Training

Training has been one of the core priorities of BioData.pt ever since its establishment.

We are proud to build upon a years-long legacy of bioinformatics and research data management training in Portugal and are continuously improving and innovating our training offer to help life sciences researchers level up their skills.

We have trained over 600 people across more than 35 different institutions and have built a reputation of excellence in training both nationally and internationally.

Ready for BioData Management?

Having trouble managing the biological data of your institution, laboratory, project or thesis? Scientific data production is increasing at an exponential rate. Good data management practices and compliance with FAIR data principles are key to addressing this challenge. This has been recognized by...

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Courses

Computational Tools and Resources

Discover the resources that ELIXIR, the European bioinformatics infrastructure, has at your disposal to help you through all the phases of biological data gathering, analysis, and publication.

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Ready for BioData Management? (Intensive)

The Ready for BioData Management: Intensive Research Data Management (RDM) Course is a two-day hands-on training course that guides participants across the data lifecycle, highlighting the key challenges and questions to address at each stage, and showcasing tools and resources that researchers can...

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Day 2 Day Data Management Course

This is a one-day, introductory, hands-on course aimed at Life Sciences researchers (with at least PhD frequency level) and lab managers. It focuses on the day-to-day data management aspects of research activities, like planning, annotation, deposit, aiming to empower researchers and lab managers to...

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Training Data Stewards for Life Sciences

BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal, in collaboration with several other organisations 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 organisations. It...

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Advanced Data Management Plans

"Ready for BioData Management? - Advanced Data Management Plans" is a one-day hands-on course where participants will be guided through the process of preparing a real DMP for a real research project, according to the H2020 DMP template. The course assumes participants have basic notions of DMPs. It...

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Introduction to Data Management Plans

Introduction to Data Management Plans is an introductory course aiming at disseminating Data Management best practices and teaching the basics of making and using Data Management Plans (DMP) in the context of research activities. The course is available in two modalities: two hour lecture with...

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