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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.

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Free Spring courses 2025

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EMBL- EBI virtual course: Cancer genomics and transcriptomics

This course will focus on the analysis of data from genomic studies of cancer. It will also highlight the application of transcriptomic analysis and single-cell technologies in cancer. Talks and interactive sessions will give an insight into the bioinformatic concepts required to analyse such data, whilst practical sessions will enable the participants to apply statistical methods to the analysis of cancer genomics data under the guidance of the trainers.

Application deadline: 09.02.2025

Date: 12 - 16 May 2025

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Course in Germany: Spring School 2025 - Bioinformatics for Lipidomics

Throughout the training, attendees will explore state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools essential for Lipidomics research. They will be introduced to comprehensive lipidomics workflows, offering a clear understanding of the capabilities, challenges and limitations inherent in Lipidomics from multiple perspectives.

Application Deadline: 10 February 2025

Date: 24.03.2025 - 28.03.2025

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Online: Love Data Week Events (2025)

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) is hosting Love Data Week and during that many courses are available online for everyone to join.

Date: February 10-14, 2025

Courses (~ 100 courses online) listed include topics:

  • Data management related courses, including licencing
  • Finding data online
  • AI
  • Data analysis: R, Python
  • Data visualisation: Tableau, Excel, Google Sheets
  • LabArchives Research ELN
  • The Ethics of Social Media Data in Research
  • Secondary Data Collection and Use
  • Qualtrics and REDCap
  • Text and Network Analysis
  • Sensitive data
  • OpenRefine

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Webinar program: OLS-NASA Nebula Program

The Nebula program is designed for participants at any career stage: researchers, research-supporting staff, and people who want to integrate best practices for open and reproducible research in new or ongoing projects. It is of particular interest to individuals or teams seeking to develop or improve an Open Science strategy or Data Management plan for their research.

Partial waiver deadline for registration: 12.02.2025

Application Deadline: 21.02.2025

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Webinar: Single cell RNA-seq data analysis using Chipster

This online hands-on course introduces single cell RNA-seq data analysis methods, tools and file formats. It covers the processing of transcript counts from quality control and filtering to dimensional reduction, clustering, and differential expression analysis. You will also learn how to do integrated analysis of two samples.

Application deadline 12.2.2025

Date: 4.03.2025 - 5.03.2025

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Course in Finland: Single cell RNA-seq data analysis using R

This hands-on course introduces single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data analysis concepts and R packages. It covers the processing of transcript counts from quality control and filtering to dimensional reduction, clustering, cell type identification and differential expression analysis.

Application deadline 12.2.2025

Date: 6.3.2025 - 7.3.2025

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Online: The latest on the RNA world - 26th Bologna Winter School

The Winter School is designed to explore the latest advancements in RNA biology, with a special focus on computational approaches. Throughout the Winter School, participants will gain insights from leading experts and engage with state-of-the-art techniques for RNA analysis.

Deadline for application: February 12, 2025 (or 24 hours before the lecture you are interested in)

Date: February 19 - March 3, 2025

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Italy: BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations 2025

The annual flagship event provides a comprehensive combination of lectures and tutorial sessions on biomolecular modeling and simulations using modern applications and tools. The BioExcel School is intended primarily for PhD and post-doctoral researchers using or planning to use biomolecular modeling and simulation in their everyday research.

Registration closes: 14th February 2025

Dates: 8 – 13 June 2025

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Webinar: Enrichment Analysis

For biologists who are eager to perform functional annotation of a set of differentially expressed genes.

Application deadline: 14 February 2025

Date: 14 March 2025

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Webinar: Training Clinic - Feedback & Assessment in Training Courses

Uncover impactful strategies and tested methods to enhance the quality and effectiveness of your feedback processes. Whether you’re an instructor or a participant, mastering feedback and assessment techniques can significantly elevate your training experience.

Date: 14 February - 10:00-11:00 CET

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Webinar: Maximizing the Potential of Microbial Research Data - Strategies for Effective Management and Utilization

This workshop is for anyone working with microbial data, interested in active learning, and gaining skills in research data management.

Date: 18th February, 2025 - 09:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CET

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Course in Bern, Switzerland: Long-read Sequence Analysis

This course is addressed to anyone working with or interested in working with long-read data.

Application deadline: 19 February 2025

Date: 27 - 28 February 2025

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Webinar: Transforming Microbial Research Data Management with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs)

This 4 day school will guide across the various steps in Machine Learning, from the foundational concepts, through the deep learning and generative AI techniques, closely complemented by insights into the existing reporting (DOME Recommendations) and regulatory frameworks (EU AI Act).

Date: 20h February, 2025 - 09:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CET

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Basel Computational Biology Conference: Bioinformatics meets AI: shaping the future of data-driven biology

The [BC]2 Scientific Committee is now inviting abstract submissions on biological and bioinformatics research and applications, and the development of methods and software.

Submission deadline: 27.02.2025

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3 year programme for Post Docs: Data4Healthcare

The aim of the Programme is to offer cutting-edge research, research training and career development for talented researchers of any nationality in fields associated with big data, data analytics, machine vision and artificial intelligence.

Application deadline: End of February

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Course at EMBL-EBI: Data science for life scientists

This course will introduce life scientists to practical data science topics used in life sciences, such as data visualisation, image analysis, application of AI, and use of publicly available databases. The course will provide hands-on training in tools and resources appropriate to your research, including introducing the use of Python for handling and visualising data, statistical analysis, and the application of machine learning.

Applications close: 02 March 2025

Date: 16 - 20 June 2025

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Course in Switzerland: Single-Cell Transcriptomics with R

This course is intended for life scientists and bioinformaticians familiar with “Next Generation Sequencing” who want to acquire the necessary skills to analyse scRNA-seq gene expression data.

Application deadline: 04 March 2025

Date: 18 - 20 March 2025

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Webinar: Awareness in Data Management and Analysis for Industry and Research

Here we offer a two-day workshop with the primary aim of introducing participants to good enough practices for managing their data. On the first day, participants will learn about the basics of data management, good research practices, Common European Data Spaces, data management and governance in industry and data management plans. On the second day, participants will learn how to organise their data, how to make it FAIR, about electronic lab notebooks and how to make their computational results reproducible.

Date: 06-07.03.2025

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Course at EMBL-EBI: Data visualisation for biology

This course will give insights into, and practical experience in, data visualisation for exploring complex and multi-dimensional biological data.

Applications close: 09 March 2025

Date: 24 - 26 June 2025

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E-Learning: Metadata in Bioinformatics

Have you heard the word metadata but have no idea what it refers to, what type of content is found in metadata, how it is being used and why to use it? This asynchronous e-learning course (1h) can be completed online, at the desired pace and in the absence of an instructor.

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E-learning: Elements of Supercomputing

This free online course is open for everyone interested in supercomputers and high performance computing. Level: Basic, no prerequisites or study rights to higher education institution needed.

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