Challenges
Bio-Hackathon MENA 2023 Open for Submission!
BioHackathon events involve a large number of people that meet on-site to discuss ideas and implement projects in a collaborative manner during intensive coding sessions.
The Bio-Ontologies Research Group (BORG) and the Women to Impact (WTI) team organize the BioHackaton-MENA event to involve a large number of researchers to meet at KAUST to discuss their ideas and implement projects in a collaborative manner during intensive coding sessions.
The Bio-Hackaton-MENA Objectives
- Stimulate and strengthen the synergy in the bioinformatics community within the MENA region and beyond.
- Engage women in the bioinformatics field inside and outside the MENA region to work together on topics of common interest.
- Facilitate the development of open-source bioinformatics tools and new methods for biomedical data analysis to accelerate scientific innovations and discoveries.
Outcomes of the Bio-Hackaton-MENA
- Bioinformatics workflows, pipelines, scripts, software, and resources developed during the event will be added to public repositories such as GitHub.
- The selected projects will be invited to submit their manuscripts to the Journal of BioMedical Semantics (JBMS) for peer-reviewing. The pre-print versions of the manuscripts will be published in BioHackrXiv (https://biohackrxiv.org)
Timeline
29 September 2022
Launch the Bio-Hackathon
29 September 2022
Open Platform for Projects Submission
25 November 2022
Close Submission
30 November 2022
Selection of Top 20 Projects
30 November 2022
Invite Teams
7-11 February 2023
Run Hackathon
Prizes
Selected applicants will be invited to spend a week at KAUST, and the BioHackathon sponsors will offer travel and accommodation.