Online Schrödinger Certification Courses offered by CSC

CSC is offering an opportunity to participate in introductory and intermediate online certification courses organized by Schrödinger Inc. Schrödinger is a software company that provides tools and training for computational life sciences and materials science (e.g. Maestro, Desmond, Glide, Jaguar). CSC provides a national license for running Schrödinger tools and workflows on CSC HPC platforms.

What?

The offered introductory and intermediate online courses focus on a range of topics related to drug discovery and materials science. Please see the links below for complete lists of modules and descriptions.

Life Science

• Introduction to molecular modeling in drug discovery
• Introduction to computational antibody engineering
• Pharmaceutical formulations
• Designing quality ligand libraries
• Target enablement, preparation & validation
• Homogeneous catalysis & reactivity
• Virtual screening with integrated physics & machine learning
• Visualizing science with PyMOL 3

Materials Science

• Pharmaceutical formulations
• Homogeneous catalysis & reactivity
• Consumer packaged goods
• Surface chemistry
• Polymeric materials
• Organic electronics
• Battery materials
• Visualizing science with PyMOL 3

Please note that advanced level courses and any course bundles are not included in this offer.

Who?

In line with CSC’s Schrödinger license, the free of charge online courses offered herein are available to academic users affiliated with a Finnish higher education institute. The main target groups are early-stage researchers (PhD students and research assistants) and members of groups with little experience in applying computational methods.

The course coupons are offered on a ”first come, first served” basis. Further seats can also be purchased directly from Schrödinger for a student fee of $160–$270 USD per course.

How?

Register to apply for a free course seat! Please inform us which research group you are affiliated with and include a brief description of your motivation to participate. The successful applicants will be contacted and provided a coupon code using which they may sign up for a course free of charge.

If you have any questions regarding the application process, don’t hesitate to contact servicedesk@csc.fi. For questions about the online courses, please contact Schrödinger’s customer support at online-learning@schrodinger.com.