Scope

BioHackathon activities are driven by practical sessions where people gather, discuss, and implement ideas/projects during intensive and productive coding sessions. The topics will be aligned to challenges proposed by ELIXIR platforms (data, tools, compute, interoperability and training), ELIXIR communities (Human Data, Rare Diseases, Marine Metagenomics, Plant Science, Metabolomics and Proteomics), and a set of common challenges proposed by the sister BioHackathon organised in Japan.

Goals

• Advance the development of an open-source infrastructure for data integration to accelerate scientific innovation. We will focus on technology implementations such as FAIR, identifiers, metadata standards, ontologies and metadata catalogues that support the operations across ELIXIR platforms (Compute, Data, Interoperability, Tools, and Training)
• Engage the technical people in the bioinformatics community inside and outside ELIXIR to work together on topics of common interest aligned to ELIXIR activities
• Strengthen the interactions with ELIXIR platforms and communities to establish and reinforce collaborations through hands-on programming activities.

Expenses and funding

Registration for the BioHackathon is free.

Benefits

New developments

• Integrating prototypes, proof-of-concept proposals or drafts into production

Existing developments and resources

• Testing new versions
• Gathering information for new features
• Reaching out to new users
• improving awareness

Personal and community building

• Learning collaboratively with peers
• Sharing interests to organise or grow communities