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SIB Bioinformatics Awards 2023 are now open to entries

Bioinformaticians of the world, it's your time to shine! The SIB Bioinformatics Awards promote excellence, diversity and innovation in the field of bioinformatics, and are now open to entries until 31 January 2023. 

SIB created the Bioinformatics Awards in 2008 to acknowledge early career bioinformaticians and ground-breaking resources of national and international standing. The international awards honour excellence in bioinformatics and computational biology within three categories:

The awards are assigned by an international jury, revised by the SIB Award Committee and announced during the biennial [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference.

More info available here: https://www.sib.swiss/science-promotion/bioinformatics-awards

Unix Shell Advanced Training courses March 17 and 20

Unix Shell Advanced Courses 17th and 20th of March 2020, 10.15-14.00, Delta #2005

Advanced computing power is hidden away in clouds/cluster/supercomputers that you do not have click and point access. As a general rule these high performance computer resources use Linux operating systems and are accessible only by a shell terminal.

This course is aimed to streamline your skills in Linux and terminal environment. We will teach you how to make your life easier by creating maintainable and flexible bash scripts for your commonly used workflows or SLURM jobs.

Objectives:

  • Learn how to iterate operations over many input files with bash loops and conditions.
  • Learn how to combine complicated command line based workflows into maintainable bash scripts.
  • Add additional useful utility functions and tools to your toolbox.

Expected prior knowledge:
Experience in using the basic commands covered in the Basics course (e.g. cd, ls, mkdir, mv, cp, head, cat, find, less, pwd).

Requirements:
Lecture venue is computer class with linux computers. In case you bring your own Windows laptop, please make sure to install Putty application (https://www.putty.org/) beforehand.

Materials:
https://elixirestonia.github.io/2020-03-17-tartu/

Registration:
Application is open at https://forms.gle/pzWrKDNcxpStEADk8

Time:
March 17, 2020
10:15–14:00

March 20, 2020
10:15–14:00

Venue:
Auditorium 2005 (the Linux classroom)
UT Delta Centre
Narva mnt 18
51009 Tartu
Estonia