Last Monday, in an auditorium full of attendees (virtual and in-person) and international speakers, Mário Gaspar da Silva, our Vice-President and Head of Node, and Ana Portugal Melo, our Executive Director and Deputy Head of Node, participated in the workshop Riding the Next Wave of Research Data

We are glad to announce that João Filomena, BioData.pt’s trainee, has defended his MSc thesis "Adaptation of GenoQual pipeline to new upstream applications and to run independently from Galaxy portal" finishing with 19 out of 20!

After a thorough assessment conducted by experts from the Foundation for Science and Technology, in early 2020, BioData.pt was recommended to become a legal entity. Following on that endeavor, we are proud to announce that since May 24th we are a non-for-profit organization.

BioData.pt | ELIXIR PT would like to thank ELIXIR for a great 2020 ELIXIR All Hands Meeting. It was a pleasure and an honor to be able participate actively.

After two years in development, BioData.pt is proud to release D-cellerate, the single-cell RNA analysis tool. D-cellerate is a web application, written in R and based on the Seurat package, that provides a graphical interface that allows users to easily perform, store and produce reports on their

Due to the increasing demand from research infrastructures towards data management and analysis, BioData.pt has hired two new collaborators to help face this challenge. João Raimundo, Bioinformatics Specialist, and Rafael Santos, Project Manager, will integrate our internationally recognized team of

To familiarize our users with BioData.pt, its Plant Community and the CorkOakDB portal (http://corkoakdb.org/), we conducted a series of interviews to some of our key players.

A student-led initiative hosted by the University of Minho, Bioinformatics Open Days 2020 was a meeting ground for experts in Bioinformatics to come together and meet with students and other experts. BioData.pt participated extensively in the event, sharing its knowledge and expertise between

BioData.pt is happy to announce that recent content from the GTPB programme, one of the node services is openly shared. Complete materials from 22 training courses, are available for reuse in two forms.

This Poster showcases PHENO (brapi.biodata.pt) the Portuguese implementation of BrAPI, which is dedicated to woody plants. PHENO was developed within the scope of the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE - Plant Comunity and BioData.pt plants working group.

Cardoso from BioData.pt presented at All Hands Elixir 2019 (Lisbon 17-20 June) the poster: An Ontology for the DMP Common Standard Mode

A paper about BrAPI - the Breeding API - has been recently published in the Oxford Academics' Bioinformatics journal. We asked Bruno Costa, a Biodata.pt member that is co-author of this joint effort, a few questions about how he joined this project and what exactly is BrAPI.