A paper about BrAPI - the Breeding API - has been recently published in the Oxford Academics' Bioinformatics journal. We asked Bruno Costa, a Biodata.pt member that is co-author of this joint effort, a few questions about how he joined this project and what exactly is BrAPI.

At the end of the 1st Edition of the Cool Tools for Science event, two prizes were awarded: one for Coolest Innovation (awarded by GTPB) and one for Coolest Presentation (awarded by VWR). Gabriel Martins (IGC) won Coolest Innovation with his OPenT – Open Source Mesoscopic Optical Tomography Imaging

Last week (6th May) we discussed with four national companies to figure out how we can better help each other. With the collaboration of HeartGenetics, SilicoLife, Sogrape and SPAROS, and all other companies who participated, we initiated a process of approximation that we hope will translate into

On Wednesday (20thFeb.), took place the second BioData.pt Technical Meeting with 30 participants representing all the BioData.pt Work Groups.

From the 16th to the 17th of April the Final Workshop of the ELIXIR Staff Exchange is taking place at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), and Instituto Tecnológico de Química e Biologia (ITQB) in Oeiras.

From December 12th to 14th members of the ELIXIR PT team took part in a staff exchange event at the Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, Netherlands.

INESC-ID participated in the F2F meeting of participants in the development of the compute platform of ELIXIR in Prague on June 19-20. The ELIXIR team outlined plans in for 2017/2018, along current and future implementation studies (More information here). ELIXIR-PT joined recently the development

The use of controlled vocabularies in plant data description was presented and discussed in the context of a tutorial given by Inês Chaves (Forest Biotech Lab - iBET/ITQB NOVA) to the PhD students of the ITQB International PhD Program in Plant Sciences “ Plants for Life”.

From April the 5th to the 7th the 9th RDA Plenary Meeting took place at the Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.

On March the 31st the second Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação took place at the Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, in Lisbon. ELIXIR PT was represented by four of its members, with Mário J. Silva presenting a short talk on ELIXIR PT.

From March the 20th to the 23rd the second ELIXIR All Hands Meeting took place at the Barceló Aran Mantegna Hotel in Rome.