BOD X - 10th Bioinformatics Open Days - Conference Book

Abstract

[Excerpt] On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to welcome you to the 10th edition of Bioinformatics Open Days. It is an honor to have a diversity of students, researchers, and academics, attending our event and supporting this endeavor to shine a light on some of the exceptional work that has been produced in the field of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics has been significantly growing both as a technological and a scientific field, providing, in its own right, enormous challenges, and opportunities both in research and for companies. Bioinformatics in Portugal, similarly to the worldwide scenario, has experienced outstanding growth over the past few years. Such is reflected academically, through the development of prestigious post-graduations, and economically, or in the business sector, with the establishment of new start-up companies with international connections. Bioinformatics Open Days is a student-led initiative, first held in 2012, at the University of Minho, Braga. It aims to promote the exchange of knowledge between students, teachers, and researchers from the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology fields. Each year, this event aims to describe the present and the future of Bioinformatics, both nationally as internationally. For this year's 10th edition, we are pleased to host an entire day dedicated to "Unleash our potential to shape the future!" organized by ELIXIR Portugal to celebrate their 5th anniversary. This year, the atypical circumstances had forced us to hold our event in an online format. We maintained our commitment to provide you an event with such quality as the Bioinformatics Open Days have offered you over the past 10 years. [...]