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Honorable Mention @ University of Lisbon Scientific Prizes

Honorable Mention @ University of Lisbon Scientific Prizes

The University of Lisbon Scientific Prizes’ jury have awarded Francisco M. Couto with a Honorable Mention at 2017 awards. The prizes, instituted by the University of Lisbon in collaboration with Caixa Geral de Depósitos, aim to reward the scientific research...
Biomedical Text Mining Workshop @ BOD2017

Biomedical Text Mining Workshop @ BOD2017

The Biomedical Text Mining Workshop organised by LASIGE researchers, André Lamurias, Luis F. Campos and Francisco M. Couto, took place at Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, in the first day of the 6th Bioinformatics Open Days (BOD’17) symposium, that...
Challenge award at BioASQ

Challenge award at BioASQ

The LASIGE | ULisboa team, composed by Miguel Rodriques, Miguel Falé and Francisco M. Couto was awarded at the 4th edition of the BioASQ Challenge – A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering, that took place in 2016. The...
Invited Talk @ iMM seminar

Invited Talk @ iMM seminar

Francisco M. Couto presented the talk “Towards a privacy-preserving environment for genomic data analysis” at iMM – Instituto de Medicina Molecular, under the seminars series dedicated to the topic “Computational Biology and...
Gaia’s billion-star map @ ESA

Gaia’s billion-star map @ ESA

The European Space Agency (ESA) published the billion-star map, develloped by Márcia Barros. The map is the first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia satellite – the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date. On its way to assembling the...
LaSIGE @ LxMLS demo day

LaSIGE @ LxMLS demo day

LxMLS demo day counted this year with LaSIGE’s participation in this informal gathering that brought together a number of highly technical companies and research institutions alongside students from serveral Portuguese institutions, all with the aim of solving...