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
- 17.10.2024 - Tableau for beginners (F2F, Tartu) - CANCELLED
- 23.10.2024 - Basic LINUX/Unix workshop (F2F, Tartu) - Registration open
- 30.10.2024 - Laboratory documentation with Markdown (Zoom) - Registration open
- 6.11.2024 - Version Control with Git (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
ELIXIR Estonia participated in UniTartuCS Day
The UniTartuCS Day, held annually in September, offers students a unique opportunity to connect with researchers and lecturers, explore thesis topics, and establish ties with research groups. ELIXIR Estonia participated in the event with a poster presentation, and our Head of Node, Hedi Peterson, proposed four possible thesis topics applicable to both Bachelor’s and Master’s students. For more information, we encourage you to reach out to us.
BY-COVID project wrap-up and success stories
The BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID) project aimed to provide extensive open data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases, emphasizing the mobilization of raw viral sequences to monitor the spread of variants. To ensure global collaboration, it enabled federated data analysis, managed metadata, and facilitated long-term cataloguing. Success stories can be read here, on page 16 is project lead by University of Tartu: Infectious Diseases Toolkit.
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”.
Webinar: Interactive Visualization with Python
This intermediate level course is addressed to biologists, bioinformaticians, and other computational scientists which use python in their research and would like to enhance their data exploration and presentation capabilities with interactive plots.
Registration deadline: 22 October 2024
Date: 12 November 2024
Webinar: Training Clinic
We will delve into “Time Management in Training Courses”. Discover effective strategies and proven techniques to enhance your punctuality and productivity. Whether you’re an instructor or a participant, mastering time management can significantly improve your training experience.
Date: 23 october 2024
Webinar: Data Analysis and Representation in Python
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: 28 October 2024
Online course: Diving into deep learning - theory and applications with PyTorch
This course will not make the participant an absolute expert in the complex and dynamic world of Deep-Learning. Still, it will aim to “break the ice” through the explaination and implementation of simple yet concrete, deep-learning models using the PyTorch library. Participants will be introduced to the basic building blocks of deep-learning models and how the main parameters are tuned and monitored to ensure the training of large models. This course is aimed at PhD students, post-docs and researchers in life sciences who already know about Machine Learning and would like to discover and start practising Deep Learning with PyTorch.
Application deadline: 31 October 2024
Date: 07 - 08 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)
Asynchronous e-learning course: Identifiers in Bioinformatics
Want to learn about identifiers used in bioinformatics? This asynchronous e-learning course can be completed online, at the desired pace and in the absence of an instructor.
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.