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.

Did you now you can now register your services and have them shared for the community through ELIXIR PT!

All you need to do is it to register your service at bio.tools, and contact us to list your service as a Community Service.

As part of its communication plan, members of the Elixir Portuguese Node were present at the Bioinformatics Open Days in Braga.

Pedro Fernandes presented an overview on ELIXIR PT, whilst Bruno Costa and João Cardoso promoted the registration of community services in bio.tools.

There are two new community services available:

• Stem Cell Net
• Stem Checker

Make sure to check them out!

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

Elixir PT is now allowing Portuguese researchers to apply for computational resources. If you need to publish your service and lack the necessary computational resources, contact us in order to apply for a virtual machine.