g:Profiler, a popular gene list analysis tool, celebrates 18 years since its first publication in Nucleic Acids Research. What began as a student project has become a globally cited resource, with its 2019 update article now surpassing 5,000 citations — a testament to its lasting impact in life sciences.
December was a month of collaboration and significant achievements for ELIXIR Estonia.
ELIXIR Estonia is proud to share our active participation in two significant events during the same week: BioHackathon Europe 2024 in Barcelona and the Finnish Nordic Computational Biology (NCB) Conference in Helsinki.
ELIXIR Estonia is delighted to share that our Data Managers, Heleri and Diana, recently attended the Estonian Research Council’s event, “Teaduskommunikatsiooni järelkasv: kust tulevad ja kuhu kaovad teaduskommunikaatorid?” (“The Future of Science Communication: Where Do Communicators Come From and Where Do They Go?”).
On October 15, citizen science enthusiasts, researchers, and representatives from various institutions gathered in Tartu for a seminar on advancing citizen science in Estonia. The Estonian Research Council hosted the event and attracted participants from universities, museums, government agencies, and beyond. The seminar fostered active discussions and collaboration, emphasising the importance of building and maintaining a strong network to support citizen science initiatives in the country.
The fourth ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Conference, which was held at the University of Tartu from 7 to 9 October 2024, was themed “Innovation and Creativity in Higher Education.” Our training coordinator, Diana, attended the conference to learn about student-oriented teaching methods.
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”.
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.
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:
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
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: Seminar room Kodavere, University of Tartu Library (W. Struve 1), Tartu.
When: Jan 17-18, 2019. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Software Carpentry's Code of Conduct.
add, commit, ...status, diff, ...clone, pull, push, ...Contact: Please email laura.altin@ut.ee for more information.
See https://elixirestonia.github.io/2019-01-17-tartu-NeIC for more information.
Register here https://goo.gl/forms/84EdtRsalQ6zayHu1