The second workshop of the ELIXIR-funded Staff Exchange Project entitled “Empowering ELIXIR Nodes to measure and communicate their performance and impact” took place on March the 12th and was held in a conference call due to the current pandemics.

Due to the increasing demand from research infrastructures towards data management and analysis, BioData.pt has hired two new collaborators to help face this challenge. João Raimundo, Bioinformatics Specialist, and Rafael Santos, Project Manager, will integrate our internationally recognized team of

Because we know that starting to use a new resource is not always as straightforward as we would like, we are making available a series of tutorials to help our users easily navigate the CorkOakDB portal (http://corkoakdb.org/).

To familiarize our users with BioData.pt, its Plant Community and the CorkOakDB portal (http://corkoakdb.org/), we conducted a series of interviews to some of our key players.

The CorkOakDB (http://corkoakdb.org/) emerges as a joint effort to create a global repository of genomic data for cork oak. This species has a significant relevance in the Mediterranean at both economic and ecological level due to the sustainable production of cork.

On February 19th, at the student-organized Bioinformatics Open Days 2020, hosted by the University of Minho, BioData.pt held the workshop "Single-cell RNA-Seq analysis using a Seurat based graphical interface".

A student-led initiative hosted by the University of Minho, Bioinformatics Open Days 2020 was a meeting ground for experts in Bioinformatics to come together and meet with students and other experts. BioData.pt participated extensively in the event, sharing its knowledge and expertise between

BioData.pt is happy to announce that recent content from the GTPB programme, one of the node services is openly shared. Complete materials from 22 training courses, are available for reuse in two forms.

Convened by BioData.pt, the first workshop of the ELIXIR-funded Staff Exchange Project entitled “Empowering ELIXIR Nodes to measure and communicate their performance and impact” took place on January 30th, in Lisbon (Portugal).

On the 24th of January, BioData.pt oficially launched the first issue of its newsletter! Comprising of two sections: one for the upcoming events and one for latest news, the BioData.pt newsletter will be sent up to two weeks in advance of the events it is sharing.

After two years of activity, we have compiled the essentials of these last two years of BioData.pt into a report that we have now published on our website.

The Forum BioData.pt: Value Creation for Healthcare System’s Genomics Data, took place in the last 14th of January , at i3S – Porto, with experts from the private sector, research infrastructures, the national health system, and bioethics. It gathered Ana Portugal Melo, Ana Sofia Carvalho, Manuel