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BioData.pt Executive Director, Ana Portugal Melo, is present this Thursday, November 17th, 2022, at the kick-off meeting of the new Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project, in Brussels, Belgium. The new €40 million GDI project, coordinated by ELIXIR, has the purpose of unlocking the potential of human genomics for healthcare, research and innovation, and is jointly funded by the European Commission

BioData.pt participates in the PT_MedGen Conference, which takes place this Thursday, the 3rd of November, 2022, at the National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge, in Lisbon. The PT_MedGen Conference is dedicated to the ongoing initiatives and challenges for establishing a National Strategy for Genomic Medicine. The opening session of this conference has the presence of the Minister of Territorial

BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal, in collaboration with several other organizations, namely ELIXIR NL and ELIXIR SE has designed a program to train the first generation of Data Stewards for the life sciences, to support the implementation of data management, open science and FAIR data principles in Portuguese R&I organizations. It will unfold from February to November 2022, allowing trainees to

The ELIXIR CONVERGE Work Packages 1 & 8/9 face-to-face meeting took place from September 21st to 23rd, 2022, in Padova, Italy, and BioData.pt was represented by our CTO, Jorge Oliveira. The first day was focused on the deliverables and actions towards the end of the project, with a special concern for the future of the developed resources. The second day

The Portuguese Node of ELIXIR (BioData.pt) is present at the 8th ELIXIR All Hands Meeting, which has started today, June 7th, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and will run until June 10th, 2022. The most important meeting of the European Distributed Infrastructure for Biological Data brings together, this time face-to-face, members of the ELIXIR community from across the 22 ELIXIR National

A Hackathon on CV to onboard Data Managers & Data Stewards was held remotely last Friday, June 3rd, 2022, co-lead by Ana Portugal Melo, the Executive Director of BioData.pt and Deputy Head of Node of ELIXIR Portugal, together with Brane Leskošek (ELIXIR Slovenia), Erik Hjerde (ELIXIR Norway), Stephan Nylinder (ELIXIR Sweden), and Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström (ELIXIR Sweden). This Hackathon is

We are pleased to announce the talk by Ana Portugal Melo in the ELIXIR “Third Show and Tell” that will be held remotely tomorrow, April 29th, 2022, at 11 am, about the outcomes of the “Building BioData.pt” project and her experience in using impact assessment frameworks in the ELIXIR Portugal Node as Deputy Head of Node and co-lead of the

The first “3D BioTalk” of the newly created 3D-Bioinfo Community of BioData.pt was held remotely this Wednesday, April 6th, at 11h00, for an audience of 57 people. The 3D BioTalks are online sessions scheduled for the first Wednesday of each month, in which researchers on the Computational Biology and the Structural Biology areas share their scientific activity. Luís Borges-Araújo, a

Ana Portugal Melo and Jorge Oliveira (CEO and CTO of BioData.pt) visited CIIMAR on March 3rd, 2022. They were warmly welcomed by Ana Paula Mucha, a member of the CIIMAR Board of Directors, and Filipe Castro, CIIMAR’s Researcher, who have provided a guided tour to CIIMAR’s facilities and teams. The visit proceeded with a very prolific work meeting which allowed

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 for the life sciences in data management, open science and FAIR data principles