Our hackathon will run 11-13th of September 2023, in Cambridge and Antwerp, side-by-side. The theme of the hackathon is very broad, revolving around data analysis in different fields: mathematical, computational and systems biology.
First, choose which site you would like to register for. There are about 50 places at each site and the places are given on the first-come-first served basis.
You can either bring your own project or collaborate with others. If you have your own project, briefly outline it during the registration and let us know if you are open for other participants to join your team. Alternatively, simply skip the project description and specify that you'd rather join someone else’s team. Either way, provide three keywords describing your project or the area you'd like to work on during the hackathon.
The projects do not have to answer a specific biological question, and can be purely theoretical, e.g. pure graph theory task, so long as the results (in the long term) could be applied to answer a biological question.
After the registration for the event is closed, we will open a Slack channel for team building and further practical information.
We would like to attract participants with different programming levels and expect more experienced programmers to support less experienced in their team. We envisage teams formed across the sites, so get ready for loads of Zoom/Teams work!
We would like this event to be stress-free and will not enforce teams to deliver on the projects. However, all code should be made publicly available. We also aim to publish all projects in the form of the citable hackathon proceedings (not compulsory, but highly encouraged).
Last, but not least, there will be a special challenge task with some cool prize(s)! All the more reasons to join!
Valeriya Malysheva
Helen Ray-Jones
Jo Montgomery
Will Orchard
Steven Wingett
