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.
Free Autumn courses 2025 by ELIXIR Estonia
23.10.2025 How to make your messy data usable? / OpenRefine - Registration OPEN
07.11.2025 OpenRefine andmete puhastamiseks - Kutsega
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Latest news and announcements
ELIXIR Estonia’s January to June 2025 Highlights
The first half of 2025 has shown how ELIXIR Estonia combines international collaboration, national community-building, and innovative training to support researchers. With initiatives in citizen science, data management network, and skill development, the team is contributing to the foundation for a strong, sustainable research data ecosystem in Estonia.
ELIXIR’s student topics for ATI Day 24.09.2025
ELIXIR Estonia is building and maintaining web tools and other resources for life science research. We aim to build things that last and are useful over a longer period. We offer 4 topics:
- Topic 1: Modernising KEGGanim web application
- Topic 2: Contrastive Learning for Microscopy Image Understanding
- Topic 3: Vision learning to understand how good a basketball player X is in situation Y?
- Topic 4: Evaluating the Impact of Data Update Frequency on Functional Annotations Across 1000 Species Using g:Profiler data archives
FiBar: A New Tool for Fiber Diameter Analysis in Drug Delivery Research
This summer, Marilin Moor, Product Manager of ELIXIR Estonia and now a PhD student at the University of Tartu, published a new article presenting FiBar, a tool for analysing fiber diameters in complex drug delivery systems. The research was carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Pharmacy (Laura Männaste, Marta Putrinš and Professor Karin Kogermann) and Dmytro Fishman, Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu.
RDMkit: Guiding Life Scientists in Research Data Management
ELIXIR Estonia is proud to showcase the Research Data Management Kit (RDMkit), a community-led knowledge resource for life sciences that helps researchers and data stewards navigate the complexities of managing research data. Developed through the ELIXIR CONVERGE project and supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, the RDMkit provides guidance on Research Data management that aligns with FAIR principles, ensuring data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
Learning Data Management the Scary Way
What happens when you forget to back up your research data? Or when a tiny mistake in Excel changes your results completely? This autumn, ELIXIR Estonia is taking a playful, but serious look at what can go wrong in data management.