ELIXIR, the European Research Infrastructure for biological data, has been demonstrating its public value to funders and international stakeholders. However, it became imperative to collect and communicate evidence of such value in a more systematic and detailed way. This urge converged on the

This week was dedicated to the agritech industry in a workshop that reunited an international and very enthusiastic panel of speakers. We want to thank all participants and the panel of speakers and chairs for these very informative days!

BioData.pt | ELIXIR PT would like to thank ELIXIR and ELIXIR-CZ for a great 2021 ELIXIR All Hands Meeting. It was a pleasure and an honor to be able to actively participate. Looking forward to the next ELIXIR All Hands Meeting being held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2022!

On the 4th of June, took place the first General Assembly of BIP4DAB, with the presence of all 12 founder associates (CEBAL, CCMAR, CIIMAR, FCUL, iBET, INESC-ID, IGC-FCG, IST, UAveiro, UCoimbra, UMinho, and NOVA). All associates were present to elect the corporate bodies of the Association, who had

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.

Check the new updates on the "Ready for BioData Management?" capacity building programme!

Did you know that BioData.pt was actively involved in a clinical study that intended to link Vitamin D levels with COVID19 disease severity?

On May 5th, the Portuguese Node of ELIXIR, so-called BioData.pt, celebrated 5 years in an event that brought together history, experiences, knowledge and vision by the words of some of the many that contributed to the establishment of a biological data management research infrastructure in the

Cymon Cox, Gianluca de Moro and João Machado, members of the BioData.pt Marine Resources Community from the Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), have led the effort to develop an online marine genomic resource to aid community-driven annotation of marine eukaryotes in the scope of a EOSC-Life

Ana Portugal Melo, our Executive Director, has recently published an article in the Agronomy journal regarding the impact of rice cultivation and off-season period on the dynamics of soil enzyme activities and bacterial communities in Mozambique.