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
- Bring your own DMP workshop - 15.03.2024, Tartu
- Bring your own DMP workshop - 22.03.2024, Tartu - Course is full
- Data visualisation (theory) - 5.04.2024, Zoom - Registration OPEN
- Tableau for beginners - 12.04.2024, Tartu - Registration OPEN
- 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:
- RStudio algajale - 22.03.2024, Tallinn - Kutsega
- 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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Webinar: FAIR for Busy Biologists: Enhancing Productivity by Good Data Management
Join us for a two-session workshop designed specifically for busy biologists looking to enhance their productivity through effective data management practices.
Dates: March 20th and 21st
Online course - NGS - Quality Control, Alignment, Visualisation
In this module, we will introduce the most used sequencing technologies and explain their concepts. Using different datasets, we will practice quality control, alignment of reads to a reference genome and visualize the output. This course is intended for life scientists who are already dealing with NGS data and would like to be able to start analysing them.
Application deadline: 01 April 2024
Course at Breda, The Netherlands: RNA-seq data analysis
The 9th edition of the RNA-seq Data Analysis course will be held on 8-12 April – 2024 in Breda, The Netherlands. This course covers the basic concepts and methods required for RNA-seq analysis. Particular attention is given to the data analysis pipelines for differential transcript expression and variant calling. The course consists of a mixture of lectures and Galaxy, Linux and R practicals. Also the potential of long-read based RNA-seq and AI based analysis enrichments will be explored.
Course at Visby, Sweden: RaukR 2024 • Advanced R for Bioinformatics
This workshop is aimed at both Ph.D. students and researchers within life sciences who are already using R for bioinformatics data analyses and who would like to start using R at a more advanced level.
Application deadline: 14th April 2024
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.
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.