Special course in bioinformatics - 15-18.06.2026

ELIXIR-Estonia will provide a bioinformatics course that will cover an overview of basic R, statistics, graphical visualization, data management and sharing.

General info

  • Time: 15.06.2026 09:00–17:30 (EEST)
  • Type: workshop
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 28 hours
  • Location:
  • Audience: Beginner level to natural and life science PhD students
  • Lecturers: Diana Pilvar, Priit Adler, Marilin Moor

Learning outcomes for the participants

  • Apply best practices in file naming and folder structuring
  • Select and apply appropriate ontologies and metadata standards
  • Describe data storage and backup strategies
  • Choose the right license for your data/published results
  • Recognize version control importance
  • Able to create a repository in Git
  • Track changes and collaborate in Git
  • Choose appropriate chart types
  • Avoid common mistakes in data visualisation
  • Maximise data-ink ratio
  • Navigate RStudio features
  • Write and execute R scripts
  • Manage projects efficiently within the RStudio IDE
  • Import, clean, and manipulate data
  • Able to create clear data visualizations in RStudio and customize them
  • Discovers patterns, relationships, and deviations in datasets
  • Have experience in the application of basic statistics techniques in R;
  • Summarize data with numerical and graphical summaries - plot data;
  • Do hypothesis testing and multiple testing correction;
  • Learn about linear models, correlation and regression, principal component analysis and other topics

Register

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