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ELIXIR Estonia’s July to December 2025 Highlights

In the second half of 2025, ELIXIR Estonia continued to deepen its collaborations in research data management, both within Estonia and across Europe, while also expanding staff involvement in training activities and knowledge-sharing initiatives. Throughout the period, we placed a stronger focus on data management by participating in and organising events in partnership. A standout moment was co-organising a Nordic Computational Biology Week Conference, an experience that will help us take on larger events in the future. Alongside these activities, our team contributed three new publications, reflecting our ongoing commitment to advancing research and supporting the broader scientific community.

ELIXIR Estonia’s January to June 2025 Highlights

The first half of 2025 has shown how ELIXIR Estonia combines international collaboration, national community-building, and innovative training to support researchers. With initiatives in citizen science, data management network, and skill development, the team is contributing to the foundation for a strong, sustainable research data ecosystem in Estonia.

ELIXIR Estonia hosted the ELIXIR ELITMa module 2 and Interoperability Platform meeting in Tartu

ELIXIR ELITMa workshop

In May, the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science and ELIXIR Estonia had the pleasure of hosting a productive ELIXIR Week, featuring both the ELITMa and a co-located Interoperability Platform workshop. From May 19th to 22nd, data management experts and colleagues from 11 ELIXIR Nodes across Europe gathered at the Institute of Computer Science to focus on key research data management and interoperability areas.

ELIXIR Estonia Contributes to the University of Tartu Data Management and Open Science Network

On May 14th, the University of Tartu’s Data Management and Open Science competence network held its second training session, organised by the University of Tartu Library. ELIXIR Estonia was proud to contribute to this initiative that supports the advancement of data management and open science across the university.

BY-COVID project wrap-up and success stories

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.

ELIXIR Estonia participated in UniTartuCS Day

The UniTartuCS Day, held annually in September, offers students a unique opportunity to connect with researchers and lecturers, explore thesis topics, and establish ties with research groups. ELIXIR Estonia participated in the event with a poster presentation, and our Head of Node, Hedi Peterson, proposed four possible thesis topics applicable to both Bachelor’s and Master’s students. For more information, we encourage you to reach out to us.

Unix Shell Basics training course

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 provide basic survival skills in Linux and terminal environment. We will teach you how to access files and folders, move around and hopefully shake off the fear of getting stuck somewhere along the way.

Boost your Bioinformatics Backchat

Boost your Bioinformatics Backchat

Facilitating communication between individuals from different academic backgrounds in the bioinformatics space

 

 

 

 

Date: 17 December 2018

Time: 9:30-14:45 

Venue: University of Tartu, Estonia, Paabel (Ülikooli 17) 115/116

Trainer: Kim Gurwitz, University of Cambridge

ELIXIR ESFRI 5y Celebration Week

 

Audience: Biologists and Computer Scientists (and others) working in the field of Bioinformatics - maximum 14 participants. Registration is available here. 

 

This workshop aims to:

- enable workshop participants to develop an understanding of what the other bioinformatics subgroups actually do

- act as a springboard to improve communication between Bioinformatics subgroups (i.e. Biologists and Computer Scientists)

- facilitate the development of a culture of knowledge-sharing between Bioinformatics subgroups




 

Programme*

Time (EET)

Session

9:30 - 10:00

Welcome

10:00 – 10:10

Introduction

10:10 – 10:30

What do Biologists and Computer Scientists do?  No seriously, what do they really do?

10:30 – 10:45

How did you get into Bioinformatics, anyway?

10:45 – 11:15

tea/coffee break

11:15 – 11:45

What is a cluster? What is DNA?

11:45 – 12:00

Bioinformatics users vs. scientists vs. engineers

12:00 – 12:15

Opening up dialogue

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch

13:15 – 13:30

Continuing dialogue

13:30 – 14:00

Action plan write up and commitments

14:00 – 14:15

Action plan feedback

14:15 – 14:30

Workshop reflections

14:45

End

*subject to slight changes