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ELIXIR All Hands 2022
07/06/2022 - 17:08
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 ...
ELIXIR CONVERGE Hackathon
07/06/2022 - 16:52
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 ...
BioData.pt CEO shows and tells about using impact assessment frameworks in the ELIXIR Portugal Node
28/04/2022 - 13:55
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 ...
Screenshot for the first 3D BioTalk
07/04/2022 - 13:59
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 ...
People CIIMAR flag
23/03/2022 - 10:58
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 ...
Training Data Stewards course screenshot
21/02/2022 - 12:44
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 ...
Computational Structural Biology Tools
28/12/2021 - 10:08
Last week, in a two days event that took place at the University of Coimbra, a pipeline of in sillico protein-ligand characterisation methods was showcased to characterise the interaction of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro with an α-ketoamide inhibitor. A warm thank you to all the speakers and participants for contributing to this event that exceeded all the expectations!
My data are your data
22/12/2021 - 17:22
This Monday, nineteen participants gather for the last event of the year to hear about how data management best practices can boost scientific discovery. In the end, participants were invited to take part in a group session and share their opinions about the topics: sharing data and reusing data from others. Very fruitful discussions came out of these days and, for that, we want to thank all attendees for the interest shown!
CorkOakDB
15/12/2021 - 16:43
Cork Oak has significant relevance in the Mediterranean at both economic and ecological levels due to the sustainable production of cork. The Cork Oak Genome Database Portal (CorkOakDB) emerged, in January 2018, as a joint effort to create a global repository of genomic data for Quercus suber and to serve as a founding platform to boost further research into this species.
RDMKit Talk
04/11/2021 - 12:09
The BioData.pt Talks made a return this November 2nd! The seventh edition of this cycle of webinars counted with the participation of Daniel Faria, a senior researcher at LASIGE (University ...
Train-the-Trainer
03/11/2021 - 10:56
The Train-the-Trainer programme aims to create a network of trainers that allows them to come together to learn,exchange, and discuss best practices and experiences.
New Article! Vitamin D-related polymorphisms and vitamin D levels as risk biomarkers of COVID-19 disease severity by Freitas et al.
02/11/2021 - 12:33
Did you know that patients with vitamin D deficiency might have a severe response to COVID-19 disease? And, that the Portuguese population has a higher predisposition to vitamin D deficiency when compared with the European population?