About

See the bottom of this page for hackathon styles employed in the Biological/Biomedical Data Science Space.

Goal

Bringing people together to build tools to or perform advanced bioinformatics analysis.

Products

Some pipelines and other scripts, software and programs generated in the events will be added to public GitHub repositories designed for that purpose.
A manuscript outlining the design and usage of the software tools constructed by each team may be submitted to an appropriate journal, such as the F1000Research Hackathons channel.

Notes

Typically, participants will need to bring their own laptop to these programs.

Hackathon styles employed by various institutions

Biohackathon (DBCLS/NBDC)

Duration: 5-7 days

Time per day: 24 hours

Goals: 
    - Open source infrastractures for data interoperability

    - Data integration

    - Identifiers, metadata, ontologies

Main topics: Data Interoperability, Bioinformatics, Semantic Web, Machine Learning

Frequency: 1 per year

Conference associated: BioHackathon symposium (1 day)

BOSC

Duration: 2-4 days

Time per day: variable

Goals: 

    - Data Analysis

    - Tool-building

Main topics: Bioinformatics, Workflows, Community Standards, Data Interoperability, Data Visualisation

Frequency: 1 per year

Conference associated: BOSC 

European BioHackathon (Elixir/DBCLS/NBDC)

Duration: 5 days

Time per day: 24 hours

Goals: 

    - Open source infrastructures for data interoperability

    - Data integration

    - Identifiers, metadata, ontologies

    - Strengthen interactions between Elixir platforms/groups and community

Main topics: Data Interoperability, Bioinformatics, Semantic Web, Machine Learning

Frequency: 1 per year

Conference associated: Biohackathon symposium (1 day)

NCBI

Duration: 3 days

Time per day: ~9 hours/day

Goals: 

    - Data Analysis

    - Tool-building

Main topics: Genomics, Bioinformatics, Clinical Informatics, Image analysis, Machine Learning

Frequency: ~12/year

Conference associated: Varies 

NCBI-style e.g. Hackseq, U-HackMed