
The 1st edition of the “Ready for BioData Management?: Data Stewardship for Life Sciences Training Program” starts today!
It is our great pleasure to announce that the 1st edition of the “Ready for BioData Management?: Data Stewardship for Life Sciences Training Program”, hosted by ELIXIR Portugal (BioData.pt), starts today, the 21st of February 2022, with the purpose of training the first generation of Data Stewards

Computational Structural Biology Tools
Last week, in a two days event that took place at the University of Coimbra, a pipeline of in silico protein-ligand characterization methods was showcased to characterize the interaction of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro with an α-ketoamide inhibitor. A warm thank you to all the speakers and participants for

My data are your data - How FAIR and share can boost scientific discovery
This Monday, nineteen participants gather for the last event of the year to hear about how data management best practices can boost scientific discovery. In the end, participants were invited to take part in a group session and share their opinions about the topics: sharing data and reusing data

CorkOak DB portal
Cork Oak has significant relevance in the Mediterranean at both economic and ecological levels due to the sustainable production of cork. The Cork Oak Genome Database Portal (CorkOakDB) emerged, in January 2018, as a joint effort to create a global repository of genomic data for Quercus suber and to

A journey through the RDMkit!
The seventh edition of this cycle of webinars counted with the participation of Daniel Faria. During this session, twenty-one participants join him on a journey through the RDMkit website.

Train-the-Trainer
The Train-the-Trainer programme aims to create a network of trainers that allows them to come together to learn,exchange, and discuss best practices and experiences.

New Paper: Vitamin D‑related polymorphisms and vitamin D levels as risk biomarkers of COVID‑19 disease severity
Did you know that patients with vitamin D deficiency might have a severe response to COVID-19 disease? And, that the Portuguese population has a higher predisposition to vitamin D deficiency when compared with the European population?

BioData.pt Association All Hands!
It is a great pleasure to share with our users and friends that from September 29th to October 1st took place the first BioData.pt Association All Hands. Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio, in Praia Grande, was the scenario chosen for days full of reunions, presentations from associates and formal

To Doctor Noémia Afonso...
It is with deep regret and consternation that we took notice of the death of Doctor Noémia Afonso. Noémia Afonso was a distinguished member of the ELIXIR Portugal (BioData.pt) Science Advisory Board and in this capacity she was contributing with her experience and guidance to the excellence of this

Ready for BioData Management? | DMP Double Course - 2nd edition
This week, BioData.pt held the second edition of “Ready for BioData Management? | DMP Double Course”. Very accurate and fruitful discussions came out of these days and, for that, we want to thank all attendees for the interest shown!

12ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Ciência Aberta
Open science is the argument for this year’s conference and we could not be delighted to say that BioData.pt was there! Ana Portugal Melo, our Executive Director, was the moderator of yesterday’s "Pecha Kucha I".

GROMACS Workshop: a collaboration between BioExcel and national eurohpc competence center - Portugal
The fame of this software precedes it and, the proof of that was the reach that “GROMACS workshop: a collaboration between BioExcel and national eurohpc competence center” had.