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 Oak Genome Database Portal” in the DATABASE journal.

 

It is with great joy that BioData.pt announces the success of the 1st Microbiome PT Summit, an initiative which aimed to gather scientists performing microbiome-related research in Portugal.

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.