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2019-03-20 BioData @ IST Bioengineering Week This past Monday BioData.pt members, Pedro Fernandes (GTPB/IGC) and Miguel Teixeira (IBB) were part of the AbracaDATA panel at Insituto Superior Técnico's Bioengineering Week.	2019-03-08 ELIXIR Portuguese Node - BioData.pt Technical Meeting 20th Feb, Univ. Minho, Braga, Portugal The Technical meeting of the ELIXIR Portuguese Node- BioData.pt, took place on the past 20thof February in Braga, next to the Bioinformatics Open Days (BOD) event, with 28 participants from the node partners. This meeting allowed the Portuguese partners to discuss deliverables and milestones related to methodologies and advanced data analysis tools developed since the last meeting.
2019-02-28 BioData.pt @ BOD - POSTERS, 22nd Feb., Univ. Minho, Braga The BioData.pt joined the 3rd day of the Bioinformatics Open Days with some poster’s presentation about some of the latest works in this infrastructure. Some of the Biodata.pt researchers had the opportunity to present their work and participate in BOD activities during the day in the scope of the theme Research in Bioinformatics.	2019-02-27 Special Session BioData.pt @ BOD, 21st Feb, Univ. Minho, Braga 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. Bioinformatics Masters and PhD students and their coordinators and professors were the target for this session. The session’s participants were challenged to ask a question regarding the way the Biodata.pt infrastructure can support and foster their research studies.
2019-02-26 Wine and Vineyard: Bioinformatics challenges discussed in BOD, 20th Feb, Univ. Minho, Braga 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), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, X-Chroma Lab. (Univ do Minho). Together with the BioData.pt team members a discussion was promoted about Wine and vineyard: Bioinformatics challenges.	2019-02-25 2nd BioData.pt Technical Meeting – 20th Feb, Univ. Minho, Braga On Wednesday (20thFeb.), took place the second BioData.pt Technical Meeting with 30 participants representing all the BioData.pt Work Groups. This meeting allowed the participants to share some concrete examples of the main deliverables and milestones related to methodologies and tools of management and data advanced analysis, developed in the past few months.
2018-11-15 BioData.pt and IGC (GTPB) run a pilot experiment in training 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.	2018-09-20 TPDL2018 Multi-Domain RDM Workshop 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 Workshop.
2018-06-07 ELIXIR All Hands 2018 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, especially the plant sciences use-case (WP7) meeting that lasted twice as long as the other meetings (4 hours) but still seemed short for all that there was to discuss and plan.	2018-05-18 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 there, with members from ELIXIR FR, BE, NL and PT.
2018-04-16 ELIXIR Staff Exchange - Final Workshop From the 16^th to the 17^th 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. ELIXIR PT organized the event and is represented by members from three of its partners. The invited guests were representing ELIXIR NL, ELIXIR FR and ELIXIR IT.	2018-04-10 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.
2018-03-19 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.	2017-12-19 ELIXIR Staff Exchange From December 12^th to 14^th members of the ELIXIR PT team took part in a staff exchange event at the Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, Netherlands.
2017-09-28 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 (Bioversity International-Agro Ontology); ELIXIR-PT: Célia Miguel, Inês Chaves, Bruno Costa (iBET), Daniel Faria (IGC), ELIXIR-NL: Evangelia Papoutsoglou and EPPN2020: Hanna Cwiek (Polapgen / Emphasis).	2017-06-21 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.
2017-05-03 Raising awareness to the use of data standards in plant sciences	2017-04-11 ELIXIR PT at the 9th RDA Plenary Meeting From April the 5^th to the 7^th the 9^th RDA Plenary Meeting took place at the Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona, Spain. The plenary meeting is organised by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) with the support of RDA Europe. ELIXIR PT was represented by two of its members, José Borbinha and Mário J. Silva.
2017-03-31 Elixir PT at the 2nd Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação On March the 31^st 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. Mário J. Gaspar presenting his Short Talk	2017-03-27 Community Service Registration 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. Follow our tutorial on how to register your service in bio.tools, or contact us if you need help.