The third and final round of the Portuguese League of Bioinformatics (LPB) took place on the second day of the Bioinformatics Open Days 2025, at the University of Minho, Braga. BioData.pt sponsored the prizes awarded to the top three teams, with the team from Slovenia taking first place, followed by

Sérgio Matos, Vice-President of the BioData.pt Administration Council and Professor at the University of Aveiro, represented BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal at the recent ELIXIR Compute Platform Face-to-Face (F2F) meeting, held in Munich, Germany, from 27 to 28 March 2025. This in-person event brought

As part of the Bioinformatics Open Days 2025, held from March 26 to 28 at the University of Minho, Braga, BioData.pt hosted the roundtable "Research Data Management Centres for Living Data: Driving Open Science and Innovation" on the morning of March 26. The session, led by BioData.pt, brought

The 6th Technical Meeting of BioData.pt was held at the University of Minho in Braga, bringing together 22 participants from various BioData.pt’s associates. This edition was focused on identifying and addressing the challenges and technical difficulties faced by BioData.pt's communities. To

The ELIXIR Training Platform Face-to-Face (F2F) Meeting took place on 27–28 March 2025 in Munich, Germany. This in-person event brought together members of the ELIXIR Training Platform from across Europe to share updates, coordinate future training initiatives, and strengthen collaboration between

The Research Data Management Centre (in Portuguese, C entro para a Gestão de Dados de Investigação (GDI)) GLIM-BioData – Gateway for Living Data Management - was officially launched with a Kick-off Meeting (KoM), held at University of Minho in Braga, which brought together 22 participants from 10

From 11 to 13 March 2025, BioData.pt hosted the ELIXIR Node Triangle Co-located Meeting in Lisbon, bringing together representatives from Node, Training, and Technical Coordination for three days of in-person collaboration. The first two days took place at INESC-ID, with focused sessions on the

On March 6, 2025, the BioData.pt Training Platform held a meeting to define the main training priorities and initiatives for the year ahead. The session gathered trainers and contributors from several BioData.pt associated institutions, who shared skills and discussed new training possibilities. The

On February 18, 2025, BioData.pt held the first official meeting of its Microbiome Community, bringing together researchers from institutions across Portugal engaged in microbiome-related research. The online session began with a round of introductions, followed by a presentation of the community’s

In January 2025, BioData.pt visited both UCIBIO-NOVA and UCIBIO-Porto as part of a national roadshow series aimed at promoting research data management communities and bioinformatics training across research institutions in Portugal. These sessions introduced researchers to the mission of BioData.pt

On the 27th and 28th of January 2025, partners involved in Work Package 4 (WP4) of the ELIXIR-STEERS project met in Brussels to monitor the Project's activities. The purpose of the WP4 was to strengthen ELIXIR Nodes and equip Node staff with essential skills and resources in organization, management

As part of the Fulbright Talks hosted by FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Professor Ana Teresa Freitas, Head of Node of ELIXIR Portugal, gave a presentation titled " ELIXIR: Providing a Sustainable Infrastructure for Life Science Data at European Scale". The talk was delivered