PhenoHarmoIS 2018 Workshop
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
ELIXIR Staff Exchange - Final Workshop
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.
RDA 11th Plenary
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
CODATA RDM Symposium
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".
MIAPPE to RDF workshop in Oeiras
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
ELIXIR Staff Exchange
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.
Compute Platform F2F Meeting
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
Raising awareness to the use of data standards in plant sciences
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”.
ELIXIR PT at the 9th RDA Plenary Meeting
From April the 5th to the 7th the 9th RDA Plenary Meeting took place at the Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.
ELIXIR PT at the 2nd Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação
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.
ELIXIR PT at the Bioinformatics Open Days
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.
New Community Services Available
There are two new community services available: Stem Cell Net Stem Checker Make sure to check them out!