ELIXIR Estonia
The purpose of ELIXIR is to construct and operate a sustainable infrastructure for biological information in Europe to support life science research and its translation to medicine and the environment, the bio-industries and society. These resources include databases, software tools, training materials, cloud storage and supercomputers.
The goal of ELIXIR is to coordinate these resources so that they form a single high quality infrastructure. This coordinated infrastructure makes it easier for researchers to find and share data, analyse their experiments, exchange knowledge, and agree on best practices.
Estonia joined ELIXIR as a full member in December 2013. The Estonian node focuses on developing and maintaining software tools and databases, linking of bioinformatics and biobanking, and last but not least, training researchers across borders.
Estonian ELIXIR Node is led by University of Tartu. Other partners are Tallinn University of Technology, National Institute for Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn University, and Estonian University of Life Sciences.
Spring semester 2024 free ELIXIR courses in Estonia
- Nextflow for beginners - 3-day course (19.04; 26.04; 3.05), Tartu - Course full
- Introduction to g:Profiler - Tool for Enrichment Analysis and Gene ID Conversion - 24.05.2024 - Registration OPEN
Invitation only:
- Andmete visualiseerimine (teooria) - 18.04.2024, Tallinn - Kutsega
- Visualisatsioonide tegemine RStudio-ga - 19.04.2024, Tallinn - Kutsega
- Lühidalt FAIR-ist - 02.05.2024, Tallinn - Kutsega
- OpenRefine andmete puhastamiseks - 03.05.2024, Tallinn - Kutsega
- Metaandmed ja README - 16.05.2024, Tallinn - Kutsega
- g:Profiler: tööriist rikastatuse analüüsiks ja geeni ID konversiooniks- 17.05.2024, Tallinn - Kutsega
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Course at Basel, Switzerland: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics with R
This 2-day course will introduce participants to the core concepts of Bayesian statistics through lectures and practical exercises. The exercises will be implemented in the widely used R programming language and the Rstan library. They will enable participants to use standard Bayesian statistical tools and interpret their results.
Registration deadline: April 22, 2024 or as soon as the course is full
Course at Milano, Italy: Metabolomics Approaches for ‘One Health’
This workshop focuses on experimental design and sample preparation matrix enabling junior and senior scientists to apply metabolomics approaches to a research-based context. Attendees will be guided through mass spectrometry-based experiment designs, learning about cutting-edge equipment and different technical procedures for metabolomics.
Application deadline: 30th April 2024
Course at Pilsen, Czech Republic: SUMMER SCHOOL OF SINGLE CELL, FROM THE LAB TO DATA ANALYSIS
We are inviting you to join our unique Single-cell summer school which covers all important steps during immune cell processing, sample preparation for single-cell sequencing and data analysis. This eight days intensive hands-on school focuses on experiment design, sample selection and preparation, quality control, sequencing, understanding NGS data formats, sequence editing, read mapping, handling potential problems and finally data interpretation.
Registration deadline: 5th of May 2024.
Online course: Data Analysis and Representation in Python
This 1-day course will introduce modules and recipes to unlock the potential of Python for day-to-day data exploration and analysis of real-life datasets. This course is addressed to life scientists, bioinformaticians and researchers who are familiar with writing Python code and core Python elements and would like to explore if further in their daily data wrangling and exploration tasks.
Registration deadline: 08 May 2024
Webinar: Optimizing Python Code for Better Performance
This course is addressed to life scientists, bioinformaticians and researchers who are familiar with writing Python code and core Python elements and would like to write more efficient code in order to crunch more data faster.
Registration deadline: 09 May 2024
Webinar: Docker and Singularity for Reproducible Research: Getting Started with Containers
This course is addressed to bioinformaticians and life scientists that are doing bioinformatic analyses and want to get introduced to containers.
Registration deadline: 10 May 2024
Course at Bern, Switzerland: Single-Cell Transcriptomics with Python
This course is addressed to life scientists and bioinformaticians familiar with some next-generation sequencing approaches and plan to use scRNA-seq in their research projects, and who are interested in learning how to navigate and analyze such data.
Registration deadline: 13 May 2024
Webinar by SIB: Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee
This is a course on bioinformatics resources taught by the developers of the resources. Bgee is a curated database of gene expression in animals, including model species such as human, mouse or drosophila, and others such as livestock, primates, or fishes. Bgee integrates information from single-cell and bulk RNA-seq, microarrays, and in situ hybridization. These data are available through a web interface and an R package. Bgee also includes tools which use these data, such as TopAnat or Expression Comparison, and allows integration with users’ own data through another R package. In this course, we will present the curated and pre-analysed gene expression data in Bgee.
Application Deadline: 17 May 2024
Webinar: Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
This course is intended for PhD students, post-docs and staff scientists who are interested in applying ML to analyze these data. Please note that this 2-day course will be streamed over 4 half-days, in the afternoon of the following dates: 27 May 2024; 3 June 2024; 10 June 2024; 17 June 2024
Registration deadline: 20 May 2024
Webinar: A Guide to FAIR Bioimage Data 2024
In this interactive online workshop we will introduce the FAIR principles in the context of bioimaging data. Designed for researchers across all scales of bioimaging, from molecules to humans, this workshop will provide simple yet effective steps for a smooth start to your FAIR journey.
Date & Time: May 23, 2024 03:00 PM EET
Webinar: Submitting, Finding and Downloading Raw Sequencing Data with ENA
This course is addressed to life scientists who work with next generation sequencing data and are interested in using ENA for submitting, finding or downloading FAIR sequencing data.
Registration deadline: 24 May 2024
Course at Luxembourg: Train the Trainer
This ELIXIR Train the Trainer (TtT) course is aimed at everyone who is interested in becoming a better teacher. In particular, this training is aimed at those who want to become a experienced ELIXIR instructor, run workshops and develop training materials. You don’t currently have to be an instructor or a teacher to attend this workshop, but you will be expected to be willing and committed to becoming one and to improve your teaching techniques.
Date: 3-5 July
Asynchronous e-learning course: Interoperable File Formats
In an era when data is being produced at unprecedented speed and in many different formats, data interoperability is key to sharing and archiving data. In this 1-h course, you will learn why file format is essential to interoperability, the criteria that file formats must fulfill to be interoperable, common interoperable file formats and how to convert a file to an interoperable format.