Collections are groups of apps and models published on SciLifeLab Serve belonging to a research community, organization, or topic. Start a new collection?
+Collections are groups of apps and models published on SciLifeLab Serve belonging to a research community, organisation, or topic. Start a new collection?
-Users will not currently gain access to cloud-based JupyterLab Notebooks or RStudio by default. However, - users can request access to these resources and use them for teaching courses and workshops. It is - possible to establish individual instances of JupyterLab notebook and RStudio for each student/attendee, - they can be granted access to those instances via unique URLs. This negates the need for teachers to spend - time ensuring that the software and dependencies needed to complete tasks are correctly installed on each - machine. This will both save time and help to ensure the course/workshop can run smoothly. Python modules - and R packages can be installed as usual in student instances, and a terminal window will also be - available.
-As with all other resources available through SciLifeLab Serve, JupyterLab - notebooks and Rstudio are provided free of charge. Whilst still in the beta testing phase, - SciLifeLab Serve has already been used for teaching classes (of around 30 students) with great success. - Should any issues arise though, we will work with you to resolve them as quickly as possible.
-To ensure that the functionality intended for teaching is not used for other purposes, and that only one - course is running at any given time, we have established a specific application - form for access to this functionality. The form, found below, enables you - to provide details about yourself and your planned course/workshop. Upon approval of your application, - your SciLifeLab Serve account will be granted permission to create multiple instances of JupyterLab - notebook and/or RStudio. Each instance that you create will be assigned a unique URL that you can assign - to a given student/attendee.
-We accept applications for courses, workshops, and webinars that are organised by Swedish universities or - SciLifeLab infrastructure units. The courses/workshops/webinars should be aimed life science researchers - at the doctoral level or above.
-We will discuss your individual requirements for CPUs and memory with you. We expect to be able to cover - the needs of most courses. For reference, SciLifeLab Serve has previously been used to teach courses - involving up to 30 paticipants without issue.
-Before the course, we will be available to answer any questions that you might have regarding features of - SciLifeLab Serve, setting up the required instances for students, and the interface of SciLifeLab Serve. - During the course, we will be on hand to answer any questions as quickly as possible and will monitor our - servers throughout. In the event of a server issue, we will do all we can to resolve it quickly. We - recommend having a backup plan in case there are unforeseen issues that cannot be resolved promptly.
-SciLifeLab Serve is supported by a grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation given to - SciLifeLab for the purpose of supporting research in data-driven life science in Sweden. SciLifeLab Serve - is available free of charge to researchers affiliated with Swedish research institutions, regardless of an - affiliation with SciLifeLab. It is also offered to ScLifeLab infrastructure units. Refer to our 'about' page for more information.
- +While it is not the primary purpose of SciLifeLab Serve the functionality that we have can be useful in workshops, seminars, + courses, and other training events where students need to perform hands-on tasks in computational environments. + Specifically, using the SciLifeLab Serve participants in training events can get access to individual + instances of browser-based notebooks: JupyterLab, RStudio, or VS Code. In addition, they can launch a custom Docker + image prepared by the instructors beforehand. This negates the need for instructors to spend + time ensuring that the software and dependencies needed to complete tasks are correctly installed on each + machine. This will both save time and help to ensure the course/workshop can run smoothly.
+You can use the form below to submit a teaching request. Please read our + user guide page on using SciLifeLab Serve for teaching + before submitting the form below.