On April 10, 1989, thirty years ago, David Philip Judge, collaborator of Martin Bishop at the University of Cambridge and a pioneer in the field, gave the first bioinformatics training class in Portugal at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC).

David Judge was brought to the IGC by Nicolau van Uden, within the scope of the Master in Biotechnology organized with the New University of Lisbon, at a time when bioinformatics training didn't quite exist in Portugal.