Daniel Faria was invited to co-organize a tutorial on Ontology Matching in the Biomedical Domain for the SWAT4(HC)LS Conference (Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences), in Edimburgh, on December 9th.

Hosted by BioData.pt's Plant Sciences Community on the afternoon of November 12th, 2019, the Plant Phenotyping-Genotyping Data Management Workshop started with a keynote address by invited speaker Dr. Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon, in front of an almost full auditorium at the ITQB, which presented the extensive work of ELIXIR's Plant Sciences Community to enable plant phenotyping-genotyping data management.

The YEASTRACT+ information system (http://YEASTRACT-PLUS.org/) is a wide-scope computational tool for the analysis and prediction of transcription regulatory associations at the gene and genomic levels in 10 yeast species of biotechnological or human health relevance.

Close to the Coark Oak DB Portal launching by BioData.pt, one of the researchers from Plants Community - Pedro Barros from ITQB - will present a seminar at IGC:

"Fear the unknown functions and mild phenotypes: a cork oak serine-rich protein regulates vegetative development in Arabidopsis"

Abstract :

Cork oak (Quercus suber L.) forests are unique and emblemati resources for Portugal, with high economical, ecological and social significance.

On July 2nd we got together for a hands-on experience in Data Management Plans (DMP). The event started with some presentations and then participants had the chance of putting their heads together to create a DMP for a project. During lunch we went around to ask participants their opinions about data management and the working session they had just participated in.

We interviewed Filipe Lopes from the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa , about his experience with the workshop.

On 2nd July BioData.pt organized a hands-on session focused on demistifying the concept of Data Management Plan (DMP). The session took place at the recently renovated training room of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC).

The organizers developed a participatory methodology based on the DMP Common Standard Model, where groups of 6 to 8 participants would create their own DMP (based on a fictitious research project, proposed by the organizing team), by filling in a “DMP Canvas”. The process, introduced by an overall presentation framing the value and the steps to create the DMP, was supported continuously by a team of facilitators from BioData.pt.

On July 2nd we got together for a hands-on experience in Data Management Plans (DMP). The event started with some presentations and then participants had the chance of putting their heads together to create a DMP for a project. During lunch we went around to ask participants their opinions about data management and the working session they had just participated in.

We talked to Laura Ward, João Bauto and Hugo Cachitas from the Champalimaud Foundation, about the perspective from software platforms, long-term usability and the difference between human and animal data.

The BioData team will meet next Monday, July 1st, to share a common vision for BioData.pt and address its major challenges. To guide the team through this challenge  it'll be used the Value Creation Wheel and count with the support of Luís Lages from Nova SBE to answer the question: "How to increase the number of BioData.pt Users".