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.
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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.