
Sandra Silva (iBB-IST) @ Ready for BioData Management?
On July 2nd we got together for a hands-on experience in Data Management Plans (DMP). The event started with some presentations and then participants had the chance of putting their heads together to create a DMP for a project. During lunch we went around to ask participants their opinions about

Laura Ward, João Bauto, Hugo Cachitas (Champalimaud) @ Ready for BioData Management
We talked to Laura Ward, João Bauto and Hugo Cachitas from the Champalimaud Foundation, about the perspective from software platforms, long-term usability and the difference between human and animal data. We talked to Laura Ward, João Bauto and Hugo Cachitas from the Champalimaud Foundation, about

Planning the future of BioData.pt using the VCW
The BioData team will meet next Monday, July 1st, to share a common vision for BioData.pt and address its major challenges.

Hands on DMP - 2nd July
In the morning of the 2nd July some BioData.pt team members will lead the audience in a pratical exercise about Data Management Planning.

Ready 4 BioData Management - Invited Speakers
Some biographic notes about the invited speakers of the Ready for BioData Management.
Keynote Speaker - Ready 4 Biodata Management
July 2nd at the session Creating value from Data Management will have Ulrike Wittig as the Key Note Speaker.

Bruno Costa, a BioData.pt researcher was a poster award winner at All Hands #Elixir19 Meeting, this week in Lisbon
This Poster showcases PHENO (brapi.biodata.pt) the Portuguese implementation of BrAPI, which is dedicated to woody plants. PHENO was developed within the scope of the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE - Plant Comunity and BioData.pt plants working group.

An Ontology for the DMP Common Standard Mode
Cardoso from BioData.pt presented at All Hands Elixir 2019 (Lisbon 17-20 June) the poster: An Ontology for the DMP Common Standard Mode

The Plant Breeding API (BrAPI) - Interviewing Bruno Costa
A paper about BrAPI - the Breeding API - has been recently published in the Oxford Academics' Bioinformatics journal. We asked Bruno Costa, a Biodata.pt member that is co-author of this joint effort, a few questions about how he joined this project and what exactly is BrAPI.

Coolest Presentation & Innovation Winners @ Cool Tools 2019 - Interviews
At the end of the 1st Edition of the Cool Tools for Science event, two prizes were awarded: one for Coolest Innovation (awarded by GTPB) and one for Coolest Presentation (awarded by VWR). Gabriel Martins (IGC) won Coolest Innovation with his OPenT – Open Source Mesoscopic Optical Tomography Imaging

First international Scientific Advisory Board assessment of the Portuguese Node of ELIXIR
BioData.pt, the Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Biological Data and the Portuguese node of ELIXIR, was recently assessed by its international Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), composed by Cristina Marques (The Navigator Company), Luciano Milanesi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy) and
BioData.pt SAB review meeting
Today is the day that the Portuguese Node Elixir – the Portuguese Infrastructure of Biological Data, BioData.pt – is welcoming the Scientific Advisory board (SAB) for a review meeting at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. The board of directors and representatives of BioData.pt Communities and