José Pereira Leal and Ana Portugal Melo, President and Executive Director of BioData.pt | ELIXIR PT, respectively, have participated in the "6º Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação", dedicated to reinforce the alignment of the national science and technology infraestructure roadmap with international initiatives, showing the perspective of BioData.pt | ELIXIR PT regarding practices, policies and services for data management and FAIR data.

Following the release of its new Service Hub, BioData.pt has created a dedicated Forum with the objective of supporting and answering users’ questions regarding its Bioinformatics, Data Management and/or Computing services.

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.

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".

For the first time in Portugal BioData.pt gathered for the event “Ready for Data Management - Creating value from Data Management” five of the top heads of Bioinformatics in Portugal: Arlindo Oliveira (IST), Cláudio Sunkel (replaced at the last minute by Jorge Vieira, both from IBMC), Élio Sucena (IGC), Pedro Cruz (IBET), Rogério Gaspar (FFUL), Mário Gaspar Silva (INESC ID /Elixir Portugal), José Pereira Leal (BioData/Ophiomics).

Some biographic notes about the invited speakers of the Ready for BioData Management.

July 2nd at the session Creating value from Data Management will have Ulrike Wittig as the Key Note Speaker.