A new project co-coordinated by Miguel Cacho Teixeira, at BSRG/iBB/DBE-IST, and by Pedro Monteiro, at INESC-ID, was just funded in the framework of the European Union OSCARS (Open Science Cluster’s Action for Research & Society) platform.
Yeasts are vital organisms in both the bioeconomy, e.g. through the industrial production of food, energy and commodities, and in health research, due to their role as pathogens and model organisms for studying genetics and disease. The FAIRY project focuses on enhancing YEASTRACT+, a widely used open-access FAIRsharing Knowledge-base and ELIXIR/Biodata.pt service constructed in 2006, under the leadership of Isabel Sá-Correia (BSRG-iBB/IST) in collaboration with INESC-ID, and expanded ever since, that supports research on yeast transcriptional regulation. The FAIRY project promotes Open Science principles to make yeast regulatory data in YEASTRACT+ more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), fostering global collaboration and accelerating discoveries in yeast-based biotechnology, sustainable bioeconomy, and human health research.