gProfiler (https://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler) is a toolset for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists that is now available also at Galaxy platform (https://usegalaxy.eu and https://galaxy.hpc.ut.ee/). Galaxy is meant for supporting data intensive research in a convenient manner through building and using custom workflows. Biological data analysis often deals with lists of genes arising from various […]

To strengthen and improve the key competencies in blockchain technology, our institute organized a BLISS workshop on November 9, which was attended by more than 65 participants from both the industry and the university. The aim of BLISS “Blockchain skills for ICT professionals” is to develop a blockchain course for ICT professionals, which helps to […]

This October the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Garage48 and Startup Estonia organized a Cyber Security hackathon, which was attended by almost 100 developers, designers, experts, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts in order to create new cyber security solutions, for the benefit of humanity. Out of 17 pitched ideas 10 teams were formed. The winner […]

On the 29th of August, Sulev Reisberg defended his PhD on “Developing computational solutions for personalized medicine” which is an important step towards clinical application of this new era of medicine. Each of us has a unique 3-billion-elements-long genetic code called DNA. It defines, how our bodies are built and how they work. It also […]

On the 26th of August, Tõnis Tasa defended his PhD on “Bioinformatics approaches in personalized pharmacotherapy”. Tõnis’s thesis focuses on addressing problems in multiple sub-fields of personalised medicine and aims to illustrate that data for precision medicine emerges from different sources. Conventional therapeutic medicine tackles pathologies with chemical, surgical or radiation-based interventions. Clinicians currently use […]

From 1st to 5th July 2019 the annual Cyber Security Summer School (C3S), which was organized by the Institute of Computer Science, took place in Voore, Estonia. The topic of the C3S was “Blockchain: Applications and Security”. The main objective included an introduction of the key concepts, principles and techniques on the blockchain technology, their […]

On the 26th of June, Elena Sügis defended her PhD on “Integration methods for heterogeneous biological data” in which she addresses the question of how to combine and analyze diverse biological data originating from various biological experiments and databases.  Importance of biological data integrationA fast advance in biotechnological innovation and decreasing production costs have led […]

On the 14th of June, Vijayachitra Modhukur defended her PhD on “Profiling of DNA methylation patterns as biomarkers of human disease” in which she addresses the question of how DNA methylation patterns can be used as biomarker candidates as abnormal methylation patterns are studied for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of disease outcome as well […]

On the 12th of June, Toomas Krips defended his PhD on „Improving performance of secure real-number operations“ in which he describes methods on how to improve real-number computations on secure computations. In the following blog post, Toomas tells a story on secure computations, real numbers and his doctoral thesis. There are two main components of […]

Digital games producer Edvin Aedma tells us how one presentation from Keith Devlin inspired him to take up teaching game development and how it affected UniTartuCS. Sometimes before 2012, Keith Devlin visited Institute of Computer Science at University of Tartu and gave a rather fascinating lecture about the synergy between teaching mathematics and videogames. I […]

Ehsan Ebrahimi is a doctoral student at the Chair of Security and Theoretical Computer Science. He defended his doctoral thesis thesis “Post-Quantum Security in the Present of Superposition Queries” on January 21, supervised by Professor Dominique Unruh. Here is an overview of his work. Quantum Computing. Have you heard of Quantum Computers? Scientists and engineers are […]