In the scope of Bioinformatics Open Days, the BioData.pt organized a Special Session about the distributed Portuguese Infrastructure of Biological Data, which serves the national scientific system in its strategies and research programs.

At the same day of the BioData.pt Technical Meeting, last Wednesday in the afternoon, BioData.pt had some distinctive guests that develop Wine and Wineyard R&D from institutions and companies such as: IBET; INIAV; SOGRAPE; UTAD (Univ. Trás os Montes e Alto Douro), Faculdade de Ciências (Univ. Lisboa

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

BioData.pt and the Gulbenkian Training Program in Bioinformatics (GTPB) have completed a four day long training experiment. The objectives were 1) to test new training material on programming in Python 3.7; 2) To deliver the content in a flipped-classroom environment. The course material has been

From the 10 th to the 13 th of September, members of the BioData.pt team attended the TPDL 2018 conference that took place at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. João Cardoso presented a short communication on the ELIXIR Project during the Multi-domain Research Data Management

The ELIXIR All Hands 2018 meeting took place in Berlin, June 4-7, 2018, gathering together members of all ELIXIR nodes from across Europe. ELIXIR PT in particular was represented by 10 of its members. The face-to-face meetings from the EXCELERATE work packages on June 4th were very productive

The PhenoHarmonIS 2018 workshop took place in Montpellier, May 14-18, 2018, focusing on Semantics for Harmonization and Integration of Phenotypic and Agronomic Data. The clear overlap in scope between the workshop and the ELIXIR plant sciences use-case meant that the latter was heavily represented

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.

The 11th RDA Plenary Meeting took place from the 21st to the 23rd March 2018 in Berlin, Germany, with the theme being "From Data to Knowledge". ELIXIR PT was represented by two of its members

From March 18 th to 20 th members of the Biodata.pt team took part in the CODATA RDM Symposium at the Göttingen University in Göttingen, Germany. João Cardoso presented an abstract on the "Application of the Concept of Machine-Actionable Data Management Plan in ELIXIR".

On the 27th and 28th of September 2017, a meeting was held at iBET, to build a domain ontology for plant phenotyping data. Several ELIXIR nodes and observers were represented in this workshop: ELIXIR- FR: Cyril Pommier, Guillaume Cornut, Nordine El Hassouni (INRA), Marie Angélique Laporte

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.