Join the Australian Outpost of BioHackathon Europe 2024!
Are you interested in joining this year’s BioHackathon Europe, but can’t face the long haul flights? You should join the Australian Outpost team who will gather to work locally, while checking in regularly with our international colleagues.
This is a unique opportunity to participate in a significant global event and network with your international peers while working intensively on practical bioinformatics challenges. We will cover your costs when you come to Brisbane for the duration of ELIXIR’s BioHackathon: 4 Nov to 8 Nov 2024. Participation will require an afternoon session plus some work in the early evening to facilitate linking up live with the team in Barcelona. We always make it fun, and you’ll get to know others from around Australia while you learn new skills.
We’ve narrowed down the projects we’re interested in, and want to hear what you want the Australian Outpost of the BioHackathon to work on:
Data Model Converter: Bridging Cohort Information Across Biomedical Data Models
Development of FAIR image analysis workflows and training in Galaxy
Integrating Bioconductor packages with the ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem using EDAM
Enhancing multi-omic analyses through a federated microbiome analysis service
Executable metadata mappings to FAIRify Biodiversity Genome Annotations
BioHackathon aims to:
Advance the development of an open source infrastructure for data integration to accelerate scientific innovation
Engage technical people in the bioinformatics community to work together on topics of common interest
Strengthen interactions, establish and reinforce collaborations through hands-on programming activities.
Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Australian Outpost of the BioHackathon Europe, and tell us which project/s you would like to participate in, and why. You can read last years’ wrap up and a blog post on why attending is so valuable for inspiration. Once we get a feel for who is interested, we will select a team of people and organise our meetup. There’s no need to register for a place on the BioHackathon Europe website - they have reserved places for the Australian Outpost.
Please submit your expression of interest to comms@biocommons.org.au by 9 Aug 2024.