On the 24th of January, BioData.pt oficially launched the first issue of its newsletter! Comprising of two sections: one for the upcoming events and one for latest news, the BioData.pt newsletter will be sent up to two weeks in advance of the events it is sharing.

After two years of activity, we have compiled the essentials of these last two years of BioData.pt into a report that we have now published on our website.

The Forum BioData.pt: Value Creation for Healthcare System’s Genomics Data, took place in the last 14th of January , at i3S – Porto, with experts from the private sector, research infrastructures, the national health system, and bioethics. It gathered Ana Portugal Melo, Ana Sofia Carvalho, Manuel Teixeira and Noémia Afonso, in a round table moderated by José Pereira Leal.

Daniel Faria was invited to present the activities of the ELIXIR Plant Sciences Community and contribute to the discussion on data integration at the COST INTEGRAPE Workshop, which took place in the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, in January 22-23, 2020.

The 4th Technical Meeting of BioData.pt took place on the 14th of January, at i3S, Porto, and was attended by 35 BioData.pt members.

On the past January 13th, the 3rd General Assembly of BioData.pt Management Board took place at i3S, Porto. All the partners were represented, namely, CCMAR, CEBAL, Champalimaud Foundation, ELIXIR Board, iBET, IBMC, IGC, INESC-ID, IST, IST-ID, ITQB, PI, Pbio, and University of Minho.

Are you excited about this new Forum provided by BioData.pt: Value Creation for Healthcare System’s Genomic Data? It will bring us contributions of a variety of experts (find here who they are: https://biodata.pt/speakers ) about both challenges and opportunities value creation from biological data faces nowadays!

Take a look at the biographical notes of the speakers for the round table "Challenges and Opportunities for value creation from Biological Data".

Daniel Faria was invited to co-organize a tutorial on Ontology Matching in the Biomedical Domain for the SWAT4(HC)LS Conference (Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences), in Edimburgh, on December 9th.

On December 6th, BioData.pt's Ready for BioData Management? team was invited to give two lectures at the "Bioprocess Data Analysis" course of the ITQB PhD programme.