Services

CSC Services for Research

CSC – IT Center for Science operates the ELIXIR Finland node and provides comprehensive scientific computing, data management and analysis services and solutions for life science researchers. Most of them are free-of-charge for Finnish academic researchers, but usually a CSC user account is required.

• CSC Services for Research
• Service Access Policy
• General Terms of Service Use
• Content especially useful for CSC´s life sciences customers
• CSC Sensitive Data Services for Research

ELIXIR Finland services also for international users

CSC’s services are available for life sciences researchers affiliated to Finnish research organisations. In addition ELIXIR Finland offers the following services to international users on the basis of a node agreement.

ELIXIR Compute

• REMS Resource Entitlement Management System developed by ELIXIR Finland, is a tool to manage access rights to bioinformatics research databases and resources.
• ELIXIR Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure enables researches to use a single user account to access all ELIXIR services they have been granted access. Read more about ELIXIR AAI.

• ELIXIR Commissioned Infrastructure Service with ELIXIR CZ
  • European federated identity and access management (i.e. ELIXIR AAI) services for multiple relying parties and thousands of researchers is co-operated by Finland and Czech Republic.

Training

The Finnish ELIXIR node CSC organises a wide range of bioinformatics courses in scientific computing, data management, identity and access management technologies and information networks. International users are welcome in ELIXIR Training organised by ELIXIR Finland. You can find ELIXIR Training organised by CSC in

CSC Training and Events Calendar

ELIXIR’s Training Portal TeSS lists bioinformatics courses arranged in Europe and can also be used to search for links to the training materials of previously held courses.

ELIXIR Training portal TeSS

Software

Chipster – data-analytics

Chipster is a user-friendly analysis software for high-throughput data such as single cell RNA-sequencing. It contains over 400 analysis tools and a large collection of reference genomes. Users can save and share automatic analysis workflows, and visualize data interactively.

Other ELIXIR resources

• ELIXIR coordinates and develops life science services across Europe. Search, browse by the themes ELIXIR-Europe Services or view a complete list of services.
• The ELIXIR Research Data Management Kit (RDMkit) is an online guide containing good data management practices applicable to research projects from the beginning to the end. As part of the RDMkit you can find CSC data management tool assembly and national resources page of Finland.