About

Each November, ELIXIR Europe organises BioHackathon Europe, bringing together bioinformaticians from around the world. The event takes place in different locations around Europe.

The BioHackathon offers an intense week of hacking, with over 160 international F2F participants who work on diverse and impactful bioinformatics projects. The week kicks off with a half-day symposium, introducing the projects and setting the stage for five days of dedicated hacking – all with one goal: developing solutions to key challenges in bioinformatics.

The first BioHackathon Europe was held in Paris in 2018, inspired by the long-standing BioHackathons organised in Japan by the National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) and Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) since 2008 (see their BioHackathon website).

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Previous BioHackathons

You can explore previous BioHackathons to get an idea of the types of projects developed. Each project has a GitHub repository with detailed descriptions, code and progress updates. You can also find project summaries from past years on the Projects page of the year’s BioHackathon websites.

Contact

If you have any queries about BioHackathon Europe, please contact biohackathon-europe@elixir-europe.org.