de.KCD Summer School - Cloud Essentials for Medical Data

Contribution List

1. Welcome and Introduction

02/07/2025, 09:00

2. Introduction to Virtual Machines and Basic Unix (with de.NBI SimpleVMs) | How to use a virtual machine - a secure, personal computer in the cloud - provided by the de.NBI cloud. Basics of the Unix system, which is a powerful and widely used environment in research and data handling.

02/07/2025, 09:30

3. Simple VM II

02/07/2025, 11:00

4. Exploring OpenStack: Your Cloud Control Panel | OpenStack is a tool that lets you manage your cloud resources - like storage and computing power - through a user-friendly web interface. In this session, you’ll learn how to launch and control your own virtual machines.

02/07/2025, 13:00

OpenStack is a tool that lets you manage your cloud resources - like storage and computing power - through a user-friendly web interface. In this session, you’ll learn how to launch and control your own virtual machines

5. Using Large Language Models (LLMs) in Medicine | Introduces the concept of LLMs (like ChatGPT) and how they can be tailored to specific medical contexts to train and fine-tune an LLM for custom clinical terminology and privacy needs (including limitations).

02/07/2025, 15:35

6. Sensitive Data and Patient Privacy: What You Need to Know | Basics of data protection laws (like GDPR), secure data storage, and ethical use of medical information in the cloud.

03/07/2025, 09:00

7. Sensitive Data II

03/07/2025, 11:00

8. Introduction to the Galaxy platform for reproducible and transparent data analysis, with a demonstration of how it is used to analyse proteomics data from the Freiburg Molecular Tumor Board.

03/07/2025, 13:00

This session introduces the Galaxy platform as a user-friendly solution
for data storage, analysis, sharing, and workflow management, enabling
reproducible and transparent biomedical data analyses. A hands-on
component will provide participants with practical experience using
Galaxy on a simple dataset. An exemplary clinical use case will
demonstrate how proteomics data from molecular...

9. Local Initiatives: Connecting Medical Data in the Region | Overview of regional efforts to improve medical data sharing across institutions.

03/07/2025, 15:30

10. Conclusions / Closing

03/07/2025, 16:00