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!
ELIXIR PT at ELIXIR All Hands 2017
From March the 20th to the 23rd the second ELIXIR All Hands Meeting took place at the Barceló Aran Mantegna Hotel in Rome.