12th Repeat Explorer Workshop on the Repetitive DNA Annotation in Genome Assemblies
The workshop will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of advanced sequencing and bioinformatics approaches for analyzing the repeat composition of plant and animal genomes. Unlike previous workshops that primarily focused on using the RepeatExplorer pipeline to analyze repeats from unassembled sequence reads, this year’s workshop will center on: “Repetitive DNA Annotation in Genome Assemblies.” […]
Statistics for Life Sciences in R Course
About The goal of this hands-on workshop is to equip participants with the essential tools to independently analyze and interpret biological data using R and UNIX frameworks. You will learn how to extract key insights from your data and summarize the results with graphical representations. You can choose to participate in the entire 5-day course […]
6th Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course
We are glad to officially announce the 6th Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course, taking place IN-PERSON on 2-5 June, 2025. This interactive course will provide essential theory on different areas of enzyme engineering and hands-on experience with several software tools suitable for mining new enzymes, and engineering the activity, specificity, enantioselectivity, stability, and solubility of […]
Training: Using the Data Stewardship Wizard for your scientific data management
For projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation from this year onwards, new rules on scientific data management apply – investigators submit their Data Management Plans latest along with the first Interim Project Report. One of the ways to create this plan is the Data Stewardship Wizard open-source platform. The Czech Science Foundation has prepared […]
8th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop 2025
The 8th Advanced in Silico Drug Design workshop is a hybrid one-week event focused on using in silico tools and approaches in drug design. We cover structure-based drug design (molecular docking, molecular dynamics, structural bioinformatics tools) and ligand-based drug design (QSAR, pharmacophores, deep learning) through lectures and hands-on tutorials. Venue Palacky University Olomouc (UPOL)Faculty of […]
Summer school of single cell – from the lab to data analysis
We are inviting you to join our unique Single-cell summer school which covers all important steps during immune cell processing, sample preparation for single-cell sequencing and data analysis. This eight days intensive hands-on school focuses on experiment design, sample selection and preparation, quality control, sequencing, understanding NGS data formats, sequence editing, read mapping, handling potential problems and […]
Federated Human Data in EU Projects and Activities / Federated EGA Node
We warmly invite you to a two-day intensive workshop focused on the European Genomics projects and activities including 1MG, GDI, Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) and Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA). This event is dedicated to providing deep insights into the managerial and technical aspects of these pivotal platforms, aiming to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing within […]
Prague Workshop for Computational Mass Spectrometry
Focused on non-target LC-MS metabolomics data processing, this workshop is suited for beginners and expert users and software developers. We aim for a high percentage of hands-on lectures. Venue IOCB PragueFlemingovo náměstí 542/2160 00 Praha 6Czech Republichttps://www.iocb.cz Organizers Tomáš Pluskal : www.pluskal-lab.org Robin Schmid : robinschmid.github.io Program and registration https://tinyurl.com/PragueCompMS202
7th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/challenge 2024
7ADD hybrid workshop/challenge (29.1.2024 – 2.2.2024) is focused on using in silico tools and approaches in drug design. We cover both structure-based drug design (molecular docking, molecular dynamics, structural bioinformatics tools) and ligand-based drug design (QSAR, pharmacophores, deep learning) with lectures and on-hand tutorials. Last day you can try your skills on the ligand selection […]
5th Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course
Computational tools can dramatically accelerate the discovery and design of improved enzymes. This online course will introduce a number of user-friendly web-based computational tools for redesigning enzyme properties and will provide intensive practical training. The developers of those tools will run this highly interactive course. Participants will be able to use the software tools independently […]
11th RepeatExplorer Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis
Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, is organizing another workshop dedicated to theoretical and practical aspects of using next generation sequencing data to analyze the repeat composition of plant and animal genomes. Special emphasis will be placed on the methods implemented in the RepeatExplorer pipeline, including hands-on exercises in using the […]
4th Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design
Computational tools can dramatically accelerate the discovery and design of improved enzymes. This hybrid in-person/online course will introduce a number of user-friendly web-based computational tools for redesigning enzyme properties and will provide intensive practical training. The developers of those tools will run this highly interactive course. Participants will be able to use the software tools independently […]
6th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/challenge 2023
6ADD workshop/challenge (30.1.-3.2.2023) is focused on using in silico tools and approaches in drug design. We will cover both structure-based drug design (molecular docking, molecular dynamics, structural bioinformatics tools) and ligand-based drug design (QSAR, pharmacophores, deep learning) with lectures and on-hand tutorials. Last day you can try your skills on the ligand selection challenge. Venue […]
SARS-CoV-2: lectures from evolutionary biology
Speaker: Jan Pačes, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS, ELIXIR CZ What has actually happened in the last two years? Let’s find out what virus sequencing and mutation tracking brought us for information about the course of the pandemic from an evolutionary perspective. https://virus.img.cas.cz The lecture will take place online, follow this link. In […]
AlphaFold2 – Machine learning revolution in structural biology
Speakers:Karel Berka, Palacký University Olomouc, ELIXIR CZMarian Novotný, Charles University, ELIXIR CZ An algorithm AlphaFold was called a scientific breakthrough of the year 2021 by the Science journal – the AlphaFold algorithm predicted the 3D structures of proteins from the sequence better than its competitors in the CATH competition in quality indistinguishable from the experimental […]
3rd Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design
Computational tools can dramatically accelerate the discovery and design of improved enzymes. This online course will introduce a number of user friendly web-based computational tools for redesigning enzyme properties and will provide intensive practical training. The developers of those tools will run this highly interactive course. Participants will be able to use the software tools […]
Summer School of Single Cell: From the Lab to Data Analysis
Charles University, University of West Bohemia, Medical University of Vienna, London South Bank University, University of Milan, University of Warsaw, Heidelberg University and University of Copenhagen We are inviting you to join our unique Single-cell summer school which covers all important steps during CAR-T preparation, sample preparation for single-cell sequencing and data analysis. This eight-day […]
10th RepeatExplorer Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis
Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, is organizing another workshop dedicated to RepeatExplorer, a computational pipeline designed to identify and characterize repetitive DNA elements in next-generation sequencing data from plant and animal genomes. This time, the workshop will address theoretical and practical aspects of using next generation sequencing data to analyze […]
Genome annotation & Galaxy Large Data Handling online workshop
This workshop is open to everybody interested in Galaxy and consists of two main parts: The first part of the workshop (starting at 14:00) will be hands-on and introduce attendees to some advanced Galaxy’s capabilities. Namely we will walk through the best practices of processing hundreds of datasets simultaneously using Dataset Collections, you will learn […]
9th RepeatExplorer Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis
The workshop will focus on theoretical and practical aspects of using next generation sequencing (NGS) data for analyzing repeat composition of plant genomes. Special emphasis will be given to repeat characterization methods implemented in the RepeatExplorer pipeline, including practical training in using the pipeline. Participants are also encouraged to make short presentations of their research […]
2nd Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design
About the course Do you need to engineer your protein of interest? Do you wish to employ user-friendly one-stop-shop software tools for the design of mutations and libraries, but do not want to spend time on tedious installations? This interactive course will provide the essential theory and hands-on experience on a number of web-based tools […]
Introduction to Galaxy & Proteomics online workshop
This workshop is open to everybody interested in Galaxy and has two independent parts. Please feel free to join any or both. The first part of the workshop (starting at 13:00) is a variation of an intro to Galaxy. It will introduce attendees to Galaxy’s ecosystem and capabilities. We will walk through the interface and […]
ELIXIR Train the Trainer – Online course
The ELIXIR Training Platform is pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event online, in collaboration with ELIXIR-CZ and UCT Prague. Instructors Loredana Le Pera (ELIXIR-IT Deputy Training Coordinator, IBIOM/IBPM-CNR, IT) Jessica Lindvall (ELIXIR-SE Training Coordinator, NBIS, SE) Patricia Palagi (ELIXIR-CH Training Coordinator, SIB, CH) Allegra Via (ELIXIR-IT Training Coordinator, IBPM-CNR, IT) Local organizers […]
Introduction to Galaxy online workshop
This workshop is open to everybody interested in Galaxy and consists of two main parts: The first part of the workshop (ca 90 min) will introduce attendees to Galaxy’s ecosystem and capabilities. We will walk through the interface and have hands-on experience with uploading data, running tools, working with Galaxy history, and creating a reusable […]
ELIXIR UniCatDB online workshop
The University of the South Bohemia (ELIXIR CZ) would like to invite you to the online hands-on workshop focused on UniCatDB.UnicatDB is the service platform developed under the ELIXIR research infrastructure for more than two years representing robust unified solution for species occurrence evidence and Life Science collections with full user-defined data schema aiming among […]
ELIXIR CZ Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences I
Dear Participants of the “AI in Life Science I” workshop Due to the current situation in the Czech republic regarding COVID-19 pandemy we decided to rearrange the planned workshop as follows: All presentations will be on-line and we also plan that all participants will join the virtual meeting on-line The hands-on practical part will be […]
5th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/challenge
5ADD workshop/challenge (3.2.-7.2.2020) is focused on the use of in silico drug design tools and approaches in the drug design. We will cover both structure-based drug design (molecular docking, molecular dynamics, structural bioinformatics tools) and ligand-based drug design (QSAR, pharmacophores, deep learning) with lectures and on-hands tutorials. Last day you can try your skills on […]
Masterclass “Computational Approaches and In Silico Enzyme Library Design for Applied Biocatalysis”
The course aims to make participants familiar with the use of structural biology and computational tools for engineering the performance of enzymes that are relevant for applied biocatalysis and synthetic biology. The theoretical and practical parts are integrated in a few problem-solving modules. Participants will have the opportunity to share their research via short oral […]
Introduction to Galaxy: a step towards cutting-edge research
This introductory course work aims to make the participants familiar with Galaxy web platform through introducing some basic bioinformatics workflows used for RNA-seq data analysis; Creating own customized bioinformatic pipelines in Galaxy will also be taught in the course . Fee There is no fee for registration.Please note, we are not providing lunch. Registration Deadline […]
2nd Workshop on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Core Data Resources
Goal The two day workshop will bring together experimentalists, computational biologists and database developers from the Intrinsically Disordered Protein (IDP) field. The workshop will focus on the methods available to characterize IDPs, their advantages and disadvantages and their representation in the literature and community resources. A key goal of the workshop is to create a […]
Data Carpentry workshop
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Recommendation: Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This […]
Annual Workshop on Network and service security
Description: in Czech, will follow up on The CESNET e-infrastructure conference 2019. The seminar draws on the experience gained from the CESNET infrastructure and from the operation of specialized units – the CESNET-CERTS safety team, the FLAB Forensic Laboratories and the CESNET NOC Center. Target audience: The workshop is intended for all who are responsible […]
4th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/hackathon 2019
4ADD workshop/hackathon (21.1.-25.1.2019) is focused on the use of in silico drug design tools and approaches in the drug design and optimization. Workshop will cover both structure-based drug design (molecular docking, molecular dynamics, structural bioinformatics tools) and ligand-based drug design (QSAR, pharmacophores, deep learning) with hands-on tutorials. Hackathon on the last day is the best […]
ELIXIR CZ Proteomics Workshop 2018
Workshop organised by ELIXIR CZ at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS in cooperation with the Czech Society for Mass Spectrometry. Analysing proteomics data involves a multitude of computational steps. This workshop will introduce the basics of how to design and run these steps within Galaxy, a free and easy-to-use web […]
7th RepeatExplorer Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis
The workshop will focus on theoretical and practical aspects of using next generation sequencing (NGS) data for analyzing repeat composition of plant genomes. Special emphasis will be given to repeat characterization methods implemented in the RepeatExplorer pipeline, including practical training in using the pipeline. The workshop should also serve as a platform for exchange of […]
ELIXIR AAI training for service providers
The ELIXIR AAI training helps new services to integrate to ELIXIR AAI, the ELIXIR Compute Platform service portfolio for authenticating researchers and helping the relying services to decide what they have permission to do in the service. The target group of the training are developers and administrators of services that want to integrate to ELIXIR […]
3rd Advanced in silico Drug design workshop/hackathon 2018
Workshop on advanced in silico drug design – ligand-based (QSAR, pharmacophores) and structure-based (molecular modelling, molecular docking). Advanced in silico drug design workshop Karel Berka – UPOLPavlo Polishchuk – UPOLJana Vrbková – UPOLMartin Lepšík – IOCB AS CRThierry Langer – University of Vienna Attendance of the event is free of charge. Lecture room holds up to 36 seats.Program […]
RepeatExplorer 6th Workshop
We would like to invite you to the “6th Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis in Plants” which will take place at Institute of Plant Molecular Biology on May 23-25, 2017.
RNA-seq – Chipster online course
The e-learning course on Chipster (http://chipster.csc.fi/) and RNA-seq will be held on 31 January 2017 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT), Prague and in parallel at the Faculty of Medicine of Ljubljana University, Slovenia. The course will tutor Dr. Eija Korpelainen and Maria Lehtivaara from CSC (ELIXIR […]
Advanced in silico drug design workshop
Martin Lepšík – IOCB AS CRJindřich Fanfrlík – IOCB AS CRKarel Berka – UPOLPavel Polishchuk – UPOL Attendance of the event is free of charge. Lecture room holds up to 36 seats.Program starts on Monday 30 January 2017 at 13 h Lectures (1,5 h each) Drug design – introduction (Berka)Chemical libraries (Polishchuk)Properties of biologically active […]
Structural Validation Workshop
Course in genome assembly and annotation
A course is being organized in Prague, hosted by the Czech ELIXIR Node lead institute in cooperation with the nodes involved in ELIXIR-EXCELERATE task 10.3 “Capacity Building in Genome Assembly and Annotation”. Some of the most experienced assembly and annotation experts in Europe will be teaching at the course. The course is aimed at researchers […]
RNA-seq workshop at IOCB
Following success of the ELIXIR organised online RNA-seq courses, a workshop will take place at IOCB on June 1st and 2nd. The course will be delivered to the researchers by Eija Korpelainen from CSC – ELIXIR Finland Node. The course will take place in Multipurpose hall (club) starting June 1st, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM […]
Data Nodes Network Workshop – WP10.2
One of the aims of ELIXIR is to establish a network of data Nodes (Nodes with large data collections and databases with established way of data deposition and curation) to enable scalable data storage and their transferability by means of standardised formats. In this task, we will focus on establishing guidelines and good practices to […]
Workshop in advanced in silico drug design
Short ELIXIR CZ workshop about in silico drug design. Karel Berka Jindřich Fanfrlík Martin Lepšík Program (KFC/ADD – 4 ECTS credits) Monday 1.2.2016 13:00 Drug design – intro (Berka)14:00 Databases of small molecules (ZINC), drug representations (Berka)15:00 Properties of biologically active compounds (Fanfrlik)16:00 Biomolecular targets (Lepšík)17:00 […]
ELIXIR Curation & Usability Hackathon II
More information about the workshop here.
ELIXIR capacity building and Node development workshop
A workshop on ‘ELIXIR Nodes – Structure and Governance’ will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 3-4 November 2015, as part of ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP10.The aim of the workshop is to share knowledge and exchange best practice on developing organizational and governance structures for ELIXIR Nodes and building effective national collaboration with other ESFRI’s. The meeting will also […]
ELIXIR EXCELERATE structural funds workshop
The potential for exploiting funding synergies between EU Research programmes and ESIF are well known. Those ELIXIR Nodes eligible for ESIF are therefore presented with a real opportunity for local funding of their Node, particularly in light of the proposed focus on ESIF and ESFRI that many Member States are making within their national plans […]
ELIXIR Data and Software Carpentry Pilot Project
The 2-day hands-on courses in the area of data handling.
