It is easy to recognize that 2020 was a harsh year in a plethora of ways raising several challenges in the scientific community. Nevertheless, that seemed to become a catalyst for the advancement of cork oak research. This effort was rewarded with the publication of the article “CorkOakDB - The Cork

The fourth edition of our BioData.pt Talks was held online on the last Thursday, January 21st, to an audience of 45 participants.

The third edition of our BioData.pt Talks was held online on the last Thursday, December 10th.

BioData.pt | ELIXIR PT, together with the Belgian, Dutch, and French ELIXIR Nodes, is carrying out a project to develop standardized user-friendly web interfaces to submit MIAPPE-compliant datasets to BrAPI end-points or to repositories which can exchange data with BrAPI end-points.

BioData.pt | ELIXIR-PT is very proud to announce the launch of four new ELIXIR Node Services: D-Cellerate, EvoPPI, Pegi3S, and Ready for BioData Management?.

Ready for BioData Management? hosted a back-to-back online edition of the “Introduction to Data Management Plans” and “Advanced Data Management Plans” courses on the last November 9th and 10th.

The second edition of our BioData.pt Talks was again extremely rewarding! This one was held online on the last Tuesday, November 17th, to an audience of 55 participants.

BioData.pt participated in the 7th Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação.

P-BIO, one of BioData.pt partners, has recently released its BioMentors Club, an initiative aiming to support Portuguese projects or startups related to biotechnology and life sciences.

BioData.pt | ELIXIR-PT, together with The Navigator Company, is conducting a pilot experiment to organize the latter’s plant phenotypic data according to the MIAPPE standard and submit example datasets to the ELIXIR-PT Breeding API (BrAPI) end-point.

On the previous October 15th and 16th, a Contentathon was held online with the purpose of producing content, i.e. web pages, on the several topics covered by the ELIXIR Research Data Management toolkit being developed under ELIXIR-CONVERGE.

We are truly happy to announce the success of our first BioData.pt Talks! This one was held online on the last thursday, October 22nd, to an audience of 51 participants.