Help us make the BioHackathon global!

Are you interested in joining this year’s BioHackathon Europe but can’t travel to Paris? We are putting together a team who will join from Australia, working with the international participants in their timezone - but from a city close to home.

This is a unique opportunity to participate in a significant global event and network with your international peers while working intensively on practical coding challenges. We will fly you to a central point (TBC) to meet other Australian participants and set you up in a hotel for the duration of ELIXIR’s BioHackathon, 7-11 November 2022. We’ll even feed you some French food so we can all pretend we are in Paris!

We have chosen a few projects for the Australian Outpost of the Hackathon (details via links below). We will work alongside the live event in Paris, equating to 5pm-1am AEST / 3pm-11pm AWST / 7pm-3am NZST. We’ll do our best to keep you awake!

PROJECTS

Project 6: Building a robust and reproducible assembly and annotation pipeline for non-model eukaryote genomes

Project 20: Onboarding suite for Federated EGA nodes

Project 32: Training booster: developing FAIR training materials and Learning Paths

BioHackathon participation 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 tell us asap if you are interested in joining the Australian Outpost of the BioHackathon Europe, which project/s would you like to participate in and why? When we get a feel for who is interested we will select a team of people and make further arrangements. No need to register for the waitlist yet on the BioHackathon Europe website - they are expecting to hear from us about the Australian Outpost soon.

Please submit your expression of interest to us before Mon 1 Aug 2022 and we will be in touch.

Christina HallEngagement, Training