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.
Autumn semester 2024 free ELIXIR courses in Estonia
- 6.11.2024 - Version Control with Git (F2F, Tartu) - Registration open
- 14.11.2024 - Getting organised with Notion (F2F, Tartu) - Registration open
- 20.11.2024 - Prompting 101 - A Beginner’s Guide to Communicating with LLMs (F2F, Tartu) - Registration open
Latest news and announcements
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Empowering Life Sciences Research: ELIXIR Estonia poster
This poster offers an overview of the work done by the ELIXIR Estonian node, both current and previous. It outlines the focus of our work and provides insights into the training conducted by the node, the various tools and services developed, and collaborations with other countries.
Poster is also available for viewing in Zenodo repository: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13847963
Uku Raudvere Delivers Talk on the Role of Research Software Engineers at Digit 2024
On October 4th, 2024, the Digit 2024 event in Tartu brought together leaders in technology and academia to celebrate the best of the software domain. Among the standout speakers was ELIXIR Estonia’s own Uku Raudvere, who delivered an insightful presentation on “The Impact of Scientific Programmers in Academia”.
Diana, ELIXIR Estonia Training coordinator, attended the ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference “Innovation and Creativity in Higher Education”
The fourth ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference, which was held at the University of Tartu from 7 to 9 October 2024, was themed “Innovation and Creativity in Higher Education.” Our training coordinator, Diana, attended the conference to learn about student-oriented teaching methods.
Virtual workshop: GPU Programming. Why. When. How
This workshop is based on a multilateral collaboration between GPU programming specialists from the Nordic countries. It is meant to help both software developers and decision-makers navigate the GPU programming landscape and make more informed decisions on which languages or frameworks to learn and use for their projects.
Date: 12-14 November 2024
Virtual course by EMBL-EBI: Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python
This course is aimed at wet-lab researchers who are generating, planning on generating, or working with single cell RNA sequencing data.
Registration deadline: 17 November 2024
Date: 17 - 21 February 2025
Virtual Forum: AI Ventures in the Life Sciences - Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities
This year’s 5th Annual Meeting of the de.NBI Industrial Forum will take place online. The Annual Meeting is an opportunity to meet and discuss current academic and industrial topics of interest. The 2024 edition of the Annual Meeting is headlined:“AI Ventures in the Life Sciences - Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities”
Date: 19 November 2024
Online course: Enrichment Analysis
This course is for biologists who are eager to perform functional annotation of a set of differentially expressed genes.
Application deadline: 19 November 2024
Date: 29 November 2024
Virtual 2 Day Workshop SABIO-RK and FAIRDOMHub / FAIRDOM-SEEK
SABIO-RK (https://sabiork.h-its.org/) is a manually curated database for biochemical reactions and their kinetic properties. FAIRDOMHub (https://fairdomhub.org/) is a free research data management platform built upon the FAIRDOM-SEEK software (http://fairdomseek.org). FAIRDOM-SEEK contains specific features for systems biologists for data and model management. This is an introductory course for SABIO-RK and FAIRDOMHub. You have the option to participate in either one or both of the courses.
SABIO-RK: 25-NOV-2024 2:00 pm - 5:00pm (CET / UTC +1)
FAIRDOM-SEEK: 26-NOV-2024 2:00 pm - 6:00pm (CET / UTC +1)
Course in EBI, UK: Gene-environment interactions in human health and disease
This introductory course is aimed at MRes/PhD students, researchers, clinicians, and other professionals working in the fields of genomics, exposomics, epidemiology, or toxicology with an interest in understanding how interactions between genes and the environment underlie human phenotypes. The course will cover the underlying concepts, computational resources, and computational modelling methods available to investigate interactions between genes and the environment (including social, biological, and physical exposures).
Registration deadline: 15 December 2024
Date: 17 - 21 March 2025