2024 BioHackathon

Cambridge-Antwerp

18th-20th September 2024

Our hackathon will run from 18th-20th September simultaneously in 2 European venues:
University of Cambridge, and VIB- University of Antwerp.
This is your chance to spend 3 days working on a bioinformatics related project, either alone or in a collabroative project. Work on anything related to mathematical or computational biology.

How to participate

First, choose which site you would like to register for (and click above). There are up to 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, the skills 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.

What to expect

The event will run over 3 days where you can work on your project alongside everyone else attending
There will be an evening social event after the first day, and an international pub quiz after the second day
Before the event we will open a site where you can talk to other participants to arrange project groups and discuss how to start your project if you are working collaboratively
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 too!
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 a short description of all projects in the form of the citable hackathon proceedings (not compulsory, but highly encouraged).

Important Dates

Registration Opens

You can register for the hackathon from this date.

19th July 2024

Registration closes

50 places at each site and on a first come first served basis.

13th September 2024

Collaborative channel opens

We'll start our communication channels to share ideas.

27th July 2024

Hackathon

Let's code together.

18-20 September 2024

Frequently Asked Questions

Still have questions? Contact us

Organizers

Valeriya Malysheva Group Leader

Valeriya Malysheva

Group Leader

VIB Center for Molecular Neurology
Helen Ray-Jones Senior Postdoc

Helen Ray-Jones

Senior Postdoc

VIB Center for Molecular Neurology
Jo Montgomery Biological Training Developer

Jo Montgomery

Biological Training Developer

The Babraham Institute
Will Orchard PhD Student

Will Orchard

PhD Student

Cancer Research UK
Steven Wingett Bioinformatician

Steven Wingett

Bioinformatician

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Sponsors

  • The Babraham Institute
  • University of Cambridge
  • VIB
  • University of Antwerp