This week, Inês, Mariana and Luciana participated in the "Impact and more workshop" within the scope of the ELIXIR Staff Exchange project entitled “Developing impact assessment tools at the node level and kickstarting environmental efforts within ELIXIR and ELIXIR Nodes” (SPARKLE). It was an

Gil Poiares-Oliveira and Jorge Oliveira were in Funchal this week to participate in the largest annual meeting of the Research and Higher Education community, the FCCN conferences. FCCN is the Scientific Computing Unit of FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, whose purpose is to contribute to

The next OLISSIPO Lecture titled "Bioinformatics Infrastructure in Bielefeld and in Germany" by Professor Jens Stoye from Bielefeld University, Germany was highly interesting for all BioData.pt members. The lecture is scheduled for April 22, 2024, at INESC-ID, Lisbon and will be broadcasted through

ELIXIR-PT is well represented by Mariana de Freitas, Gil Poiares-Oliveira and Sérgio Matos at the hybrid meeting for the ELIXIR Training Platform co-located with a meeting for the Coordinators Triangle in Prague, Czech Republic. These are days of discussing and knowledge sharing.

Yesterday, the first BioData.pt | ELIXIR-Portugal platforms and communities meeting of the year took place. To stay updated, check the meeting agenda and notes.

Inês Chaves and Mariana de Freitas attended the STEERS kick-off meeting in Brussels this week. We are excited about this beginning.

Ana Teresa Freitas, the ELIXIR-PT Head of Node, and Inês Chaves, the Deputy Head of Node, took part in the ELIXIR Heads of Nodes (HoN) Teleconference yesterday. The Heads of Nodes Committee plays a vital role in creating and approving the scientific and technical strategy for ELIXIR.

After the success of the 1st year, the Microbiome PT Summit returns for a second edition, but this time in a face-to-face fashion in Lisbon. Are you involved in Microbiome research? Then, you can't miss this summit.

The "Bioinformatics Portuguese League" (Liga Portuguesa de Bioinformática - LPB) is a national contest on the scope of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The LPB has been created for higher education students with interest in those areas of knowledge and the national Bioinformatics community

The ELIXIR CONVERGE Work Packages 1 & 2 face-to-face meeting was held in Prague, Czech Republic from March 29th to March 31st, 2023. BioData.pt was represented by Jorge Oliveira. On the first day, parallel sessions were held for WP1/WP2 where the last deliverables and milestones of the respective

The 2nd workshop of the OATEN (Open Access Tools for Effective Management) staff exchange, entwined with the ELIXIR Training Program in Management - ELITMa being developed under ELIXIR-CONVERGE, will take place from March 28th-30th, in Lisbon, hosted by BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal. The event will

BioData.pt recently attended the Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) Pillar II Workshop in Sweden, alongside other members of the Portuguese team such as Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, University of Aveiro, and Técnico Lisboa. The workshop focused on the Starter Kit of the project