Training Courses
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Rome, Italy |
Nov 28-29, 2023 |
The focus of the workshop is the integration of different clinical and bioinformatic approaches to characterize RDs with a particular attention to Italian cases, and how to integrate them into an international framework. In this workshop, researchers from different biomedical communities active in the territory will have the opportunity to define their computational needs together with experts in different aspects of bio-sequence analysis with the aim of sharing experiences and integrating knowledge in different aspects of the complex problem of research, diagnosis and care of RDs.
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Rome, Italy |
Nov 28-29, 2023 |
ProteomiX is an interactive workshop based on open discussion involving young researchers working on both experimental and computational aspects, such as protein extraction, interferences removal, separation, mass spectrometry analysis, database, quantitative and pathway analyses.
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Rome, Italy |
Nov 27-28, 2023 |
The ELIXIR Italy All Hands Meeting will be an opportunity to discuss and explore Platforms and Communities, their activities and future perspectives. Our primary goal is to foster connections between ELIXIR Italy members, facilitate interactions and broaden awareness of the entire Research Infrastructure and its potential for researchers, providers and other stakeholders.
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Turin, Italy |
Sep 26-29, 2023 |
This course aims to provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge on how to perform bioinformatics analyses of scRNA-seq data using open-source software solutions.
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Rome, Italy |
Sep 25-29, 2023 |
This course is composed of two training modules. During the first module “Rare disease registries” (25-27 September) participants will learn (a) what resources are needed for the establishment/maintenance of a high-quality registry (b) the features of successful strategies to ensure (i) long-time sustainability of the registry, (ii) quality, (iii) legal and ethical issues in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and (iv) FAIR principles. During the second module “FAIRification of data” (28-29 September) participants, working together with FAIR/Data stewards, will deepen the FAIRification process.
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Ancona, Italy |
Sep 20-22, 2023 |
The 3rd MaSBiC Annual Symposium brings together experimental biologists, computational chemists, biochemists, biophysicists and structural and molecular biologists who study different features of proteins such as structure, dynamics, folding, evolution and much more. Several invited speakers will emphasize a wide range of approaches for tackling important and challenging issues in the study of proteins structure and functions.
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Split, Croatia |
Aug 21-25, 2023 |
We invite participants enthusiastic about science, new technologies, biology, big data analysis, and those curious to learn new things. The School will introduce participants to the latest advances in omics technologies and most commonly used bioinformatics tools and methods to analyse big data. Hands-on sessions will give participants the opportunity to reinforce the analysis concepts they learned in smaller groups based on their field of interest. The participants will also have a chance to get advice related to their own research questions. This School is intended for individuals working in life/biomedical sciences with little or none experience in bioinformatics.
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Rome, Italy |
May 3-4, 2023 |
Two-day workshop to boost your understanding of bioinformatics resources and their use - you will learn about the key data resources available and how to use functional analysis tools.
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Rome, Italy |
May 2-2, 2023 |
This meeting will bring together experimental researchers, clinicians, biocurators and tool providers to discuss how to support improved interpretation of genomic, proteomic and transcriptomic datasets to understand molecular mechanisms underpinning disease states.
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Bari, Italy |
Apr 26-28, 2023 |
This course will provide a foundation on the experimental planning, analytical strategies and computational approaches for applying Nanopore direct RNA Sequencing to profile RNA modifications. Through a combination of theoretical lectures and practical exercises, participants will learn the fundamental concepts and bioinformatics skills that will allow them to start using Nanopore sequencing data for epitranscriptome analysis.
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Rome, Italy |
Nov 22-25, 2022 |
With the rapid advancement of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, genomic data has become one of the most widely analyzed biological data. A variety of tools are available for different types of analyses; however, genomics research necessarily requires skills to create specific scripts/software to deepen and extend the analysis. This Basic Module aims to provide learners the basics of the Python programming language, by applying them to assigned problems in the field of genomics. No programming experience is required.
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Torino, Italy |
Sep 28-30, 2022 |
This course aims to provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge on how to perform bioinformatic analyses of scRNA-seq data using open-source software solutions. scRNA-seq analyses will be performed using the tools available as part of the Reproducible Bioinformatics Project (rCASC). This course is suitable for biologists who are new to single cell gene expression technology. Knowledge of statistics as well as computing skills are not necessary prior to attending the course.
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online |
Sep 27-30, 2022 |
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 computing concepts and tools, including program design, data management, data visualization, and task automation using R and RStudio software environment. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
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Bari, Italy |
Apr 28-29, 2022 |
The workshop is designed to enable the attendees to apply metabolomics in a research-based context. We will focus both on experimental design and data analysis of different data sources integrated at the level of the metabolome. Attendees will engage into the design of a mass spectrometry-based metabolomics experiment with cutting-edge equipment and will gain an overview on the use of specific software platforms for metabolomics data mining. Special attention will be paid to the integration of metabolomics data with metagenomics, gene expression and proteomic data.
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online |
Mar 22-30, 2022 |
In this EMBO Practical Course, participants will learn fundamental concepts, advanced approaches and programming skills to reconstruct the demographic history of populations and infer natural selection, using both classic and machine learning-based techniques. Keynote lectures focused on major achievements and future perspectives of population genomics will complement the training. Lectures and practicals will be delivered by experienced outstanding and inspiring speakers. We expect participants to become fully confident in running analyses on their own after attending the course.
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online |
Mar 2-11, 2022 |
The course on FAIR Data Stewardship in Life Science has been organised by ELIXIR Italy, EOSC-Pillar Project, the ICDI Competence Centre, and EOSC-Life, in collaboration with ELIXIR Netherlands. The course is focused on FAIR data management, introduces to all aspects of Open Science, and provides the skills, tools and standards required to embed Open Science in the research workflow. It has been structured in 5 on-line training modules, each one built on frontal lessons and several interactions.
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online |
Jan 27-4, 2022 |
Carpentries Italia è un'iniziativa per promuovere il modello formativo di The Carpentries fra un pubblico di lingua italiana. The Carpentries è una comunità internazionale dedicata all'insegnamento di competenze relative alla scrittura di codice e alla gestione e analisi di dati, secondo principi di apertura e inclusione, usando metodi didattici di efficacia provata. I laboratori Software Carpentry insegnano a scrivere, gestire e automatizzare codice per fare ricerca scientifica più robusta e riproducibile. In questo laboratorio Software Carpentry i partecipanti impareranno i fondamenti (codice e dati) in Python per risolvere problemi di ricerca, la gestione del codice con il controllo di versione (git), lavorare con la linea di comando (shell).
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online |
Sep 9-17, 2021 |
Software Carpentry è un'associazione senza scopo di lucro il cui obiettivo è aiutare ricercatrici e ricercatori di ogni livello a semplificare e migliorare le proprie procedure di ricerca attraverso l'apprendimento di tecniche di base di programmazione e gestione di dati. Questo laboratorio propone ai partecipanti di apprendere programmando insieme agli istruttori, anch'essi appartenenti al mondo della ricerca e dell'insegnamento superiore e volontari dell'associazione Software Carpentry. Gli argomenti che verranno trattati sono l'automatizzazione di attività, il controllo di versione, l'organizzazione di dati, scrittura e progettazione di programmi.
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Procida (Napoli), Italy |
Mar 19-26, 2021 |
This EMBO Practical Course will cover coalescent theory, the effect of demography in space and time, genetic clustering, the detection and quantification of admixture and selection. Lectures on these topics will be complemented by hands-on computer practicals introducing a wide range of software packages, both in R and Python. This course is aimed at evolutionary biologists who already have basic bioinformatics skills. A main criterion for selection will be how much a candidate can benefit from the course.
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online |
Dec 1-4, 2020 |
The ELIXIR Training Platform, in collaboration with ELIXIR-IT, is pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event online. This course is meant to offer guidance, ideas and tips for training/teaching design, development and delivery based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.
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online |
Jul 14-17, 2020 |
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. The goal of this hands-on workshop is to teach novice programmers to write modular code and best practices for using R for data analysis.
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Rome, Italy |
May 6-7, 2020 |
Two-day workshop to boost your understanding of bioinformatics resources and their use - you will learn about the key data resources available and how to use functional analysis tools.
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Torino, Italy |
Mar 9-13, 2020 |
This course aims to provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge on how to perform bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq data using Bioconductor and other open-source software tools. A specific module will briefly describe the single-cell RNA-seq workflow, highlighting differences existing between bulk RNA-seq and single-cell sequencing. The course is suitable for life science researchers who are new to NGS technology, and no statistics prerequisites or computing experience are necessary for attending the course.
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Bressanone-Brixen, Italy |
Jan 27-31, 2020 |
During lectures and practicals, experts of the field will provide students with an overview of Intrinsically Disordered Protein (IDP) biological mechanisms that develop pathogenic phenotypes. They will explore the concepts of folding, unfolding and misfolding, highlighting their differences and similarities. Practical exercises aim at transferring to students basic skills for the study of IDPs using bioinformatic tools to solve complex problems.
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Naples, Italy |
Jul 3-5, 2019 |
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. In particular, in this workshop we will cover the Unix Shell, programming in Python and version control with Git.
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Milano, Italy |
Jul 1-5, 2019 |
The course will take the participants through all steps of a genome assembly and annotation project, starting with quality control, moving into genome assembly and assembly validation, and ending with structural and functional annotation. Both short and long read technologies will be discussed, as well as supporting technologies. Lectures are mixed with practicals, with a majority of the time spent doing hands-on analyses in the command terminal. Focus is on eukaryotes, although most methods will be applicable to any organism. One day is set aside to discuss the participants own projects, and work with that data, if available.
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Torino, Italy |
Jun 13-14, 2019 |
Docker is a container framework for Linux that allows a developer to make easier the creation, deployment and execution of applications by using containers. During the workshop the participant will learn the core concepts of Docker and how to easily embed bioinformatic pipelines/workflows into a docker container.
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Padova, Italy |
May 30-31, 2019 |
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, in collaboration with ELIXIR-IIB, is pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event. This course is meant to offer guidance, ideas and tips for training/teaching design, development and delivery based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.
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Pozzuoli (Napoli), Italy |
May 7-9, 2019 |
Single-Cell Transcriptomics is improving the quality of biological investigations by enhancing the dissection of heterogeneity in complex tissues and cell cultures. This 3-day course aims to provide an overview of a complete Single-Cell RNA sequencing workflow.
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Procida (Napoli), Italy |
Mar 30-6, 2019 |
The objective of this EMBO Practical Course is to give an overview of state of the art methods in population genomics combining lecturing from outstanding experienced population geneticists and software developers. After attending the course participants will be aware of up-to-date concepts in population genetics, capable of running analyses using software based on whole genome data sequences and able to deal with basic aspects of any population genomics project. This EMBO Practical Course aims at evolutionary biologists who already have bioinformatics skills. PhD students and Post-Doc researchers will benefit the most out of this course, but applications from all candidates will be evaluated in their context.
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Milano, Italy |
Feb 14-15, 2019 |
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
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Naples, Italy |
Feb 11-12, 2019 |
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. In particular, in this workshop we will cover the Unix Shell, programming in R and version control with Git.
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Genova, Italy |
Oct 22-24, 2018 |
The Eighteenth NETTAB Workshop is organised in collaboration with ELIXIR Nodes of the UK and Italy, as well as the Italian Society of Bioinformatics BITS. The main focus will be on FAIR principles in bioinformatics, a challenging topic that we hope will attract many researchers from all over the world, including but not limited to, Bioinformaticians, Biologists, Computer Scientists, and others working or interested in the above research scope.
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Stockholm, Sweden |
Oct 9-11, 2018 |
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, in collaboration with ELIXIR Sweden and ELIXIR-IIB, is pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event. This course is meant to offer guidance, ideas and tips for training/teaching design, development and delivery based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.
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Rome, Italy |
Sep 27-28, 2018 |
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, in collaboration with ELIXIR-IIB, is pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event. This course is meant to offer guidance, ideas and tips for training/teaching design, development and delivery based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.
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Milano, Italy |
Sep 26-27, 2018 |
Docker is an open source software that is used to run "containers" that are essentially lightweight virtual machines. Containers are isolated from each other and use their own set of tools and libraries; they can communicate through well-defined channels. This allows to easily deploy programs since all requisites of a program are stored inside the containers. This course will provide the basic notions and tool to allow a developer to "dockerize" her programs, and to manage a set of containers, hence greatly improving the installation process.
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Torino, Italy |
Jun 25-26, 2018 |
Docker is a container framework for Linux that allows a developer to make easier the creation, deployment and execution of applications by using containers. During the workshop the participant will learn the core concepts of Docker and how to easily embed bioinformatic pipelines/workflows into a docker container.
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Napoli, Italy |
Apr 21-27, 2018 |
Study methods in population genomics have been profoundly reshaped in the last few years thanks to the growing availability of complete genomic sequences at population level. The rapid and recent growth of data and methods calls for new approaches to become routine in evolutionary genomics laboratories. The objective of this Practical Course is to give an overview of state of the art methods in population genomics combining lecturing from outstanding experienced population geneticists and software developers. All conceptual innovation will be presented in lectures and applied in practice both individually and in group work.
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Paris, France |
Mar 26-27, 2018 |
ELIXIR-FR in collaboration with ELIXIR-IT and Swiss Institute of Bionformatics (SIB) are pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event. This course is meant to offer guidance, ideas and tips for training/teaching design, development and delivery based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.
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Milano, Italy |
Feb 22-23, 2018 |
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. In particular, in this workshop we will cover the Unix Shell, programming in Python and version control with Git.
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Lausanne, Switzerland |
Jan 30-31, 2018 |
ELIXIR-CH in collaboration with ELIXIR-EXCELERATE and ELIXIR Italy are pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event. This course is meant to offer guidance, ideas and tips for training/teaching design, development and delivery based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.
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Roma, Italy |
Jan 16-17, 2018 |
Biological big data increasingly require supercomputers for their processing and analysis. Running high-throughput (HTP) bioinformatics data pipelines on supercomputing machines requires advanced Linux shell command line and scripting skills. In this two-day course, we will introduce the Linux shell and we will show how to navigate and work with files and directories, how to combine commands to do new things, how to perform the same actions on many different files, how to filter and selectively extract data from tables, and how to find objects in files. Moreover, we will show how to connect to a remote supercomputer and how to utilise a supercomputing environment to analyse big amount of biological data.
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Roma, Italy |
Dec 5-7, 2017 |
The curation workshop on molecular and causal interactions is organized by the University of Rome Tor Vergata under the ELIXIR Italy training program and the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project. The workshop will bring together the main European protagonists in the landscape of manually curated molecular and causal interactions databases.
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Palermo, Italy |
Oct 18-19, 2017 |
Participants in the course will be introduced to protein-protein interactions, biochemical reactions and causal interactions field. During the course the participants will be exposed to the literature curation principles and methods. In addition, there will be a session dedicated to common standards and ontologies adopted to describe data retrieved from the literature in a formalized manner. A large number of molecular interaction resources and methodologies to analyze them will be introduced during hand-on sessions.
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Salerno, Italy |
Sep 27-29, 2017 |
ELIXIR-IIB, in cooperation with the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train-The-Trainer programme, will hold a Train the Trainer (TtT) event in connection with a course on "Best Practices for RNA-Seq analysis". The course is meant to offer guidance, ideas and tips for training / teaching design, development and delivery based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.
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Salerno, Italy |
Sep 27-29, 2017 |
The aim of this course is to get a deeper understanding of RNA-Seq experiments, providing a theoretical introduction to the data processing steps, together with practical sessions illustrating the use of the most popular data analysis tools. Some strategies are illustrated for detecting genes, which are differentially expressed across different biological conditions, alternative splicing products, novel isoforms and gene fusion events. Some methods for downstream analysis are described to give insight into how biological knowledge can be generated from RNA-Seq experiments.
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Roma, Italy |
Sep 11-15, 2017 |
Python is an object-oriented programming language that is ideal for biological data analysis. The course will start from zero knowledge, and will introduce the participants to all the basic concepts of Python such as calculating, organising data, reading and writing files, program logic and writing larger programs. All the examples and practical sessions will focus on solving biological problems. The course will be highly interactive and the students will continuously put theory into practice while learning.
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San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy |
Sep 4-7, 2017 |
The aim of the course is to provide a practical introduction to the analysis of "omics" data. Topics will range from data visualization/exploration to univariate/multivariate analysis and machine learning. Practical examples and applications will be illustrated by using R and Python.
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Milano, Italy |
Jul 18-20, 2017 |
The course will provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge on how to perform bioinformatic analyses of RNA-Seq data, mainly aimed at the identification of genes differentially expressed across different conditions.
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Cagliari, Italy |
Jul 3-5, 2017 |
Galaxy is an open source, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical analysis. The aim of this course is to make participants familiarize with the Galaxy platform and prepare them to work independently, using best practices guidelines for building, maintaining and installing Galaxy tools. The course will be delivered using a mixture of lectures and computer based hands-on practical sessions. Lectures will provide an up-to-date overview of the practices for the most successful Galaxy tool development. During this 2 days course participants will learn a modern approach to create, configure and install their own tools into a Galaxy server.
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Bari, Italy |
Jun 19-23, 2017 |
Two connected events on Advanced Computational Metagenomics - a 2-day workshop followed by a three-day intensive practical school - will take place on 19-23 June 2017 in Bari, Italy. Both the workshop and the school will focus on the computational aspects of metagenomics analysis including reference databases, software and data retrieval and submission. The investigation of microbial communities will be discussed with an overview on real projects cases, both in ecological, clinical and nutrition fields. During the practical sessions students will experience how to analyze meta-barcoding and shotgun data from Next Generation Sequencing and to perform statistical inference on them.
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Napoli, Italy |
May 18-26, 2017 |
The objective of this EMBO Practical Course is to give an overview of state of the art methods in population genomics combining lecturing from outstanding experienced population geneticists and software developers. After attending the course participants will be aware of up-to-date concepts in population genetics, capable of running analyses using software based on whole genome data sequences and able to deal with basic aspects of any population genomics project. This EMBO Practical Course aims at evolutionary biologists who already have bioinformatics skills. PhD students and Post-Doc researchers will benefit the most out of this course, but applications from all candidates will be evaluated in their context.
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Padova, Italy |
Apr 10-13, 2017 |
This workshop is aimed at students in master degree courses, PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are working or planning to work in the field of protein interactions from a molecular and structural point of view. In this workshop, participants will familiarise with docking approaches to the study of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and protein-small molecule interactions. Irreversible binders design using molecular docking and computational methods to rational drug design will be also described, as well as the functional role of the intrinsically disordered proteins.