Projects

The call for project proposals is now open

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Project selection criteria for BioHackathon Europe 2025

Deadline for project submission: 14 April 2025

Projects will be evaluated based on:

  • Commitment to attending
  • Collaboration
  • Balancing veterans and newcomers
  • Alignment with ELIXIR’s 2024–2028 Scientific Programme
  • Novelty
  • Feasibility
  • Vision
  • Inclusivity strategy

Each project must have three co-leads, and each co-lead can support only one project. A proposal merging step is not planned.

Hacking projects 2024

You can also view a list of the projects in the projects GitHub repository.

No. Title
2 A curated assessment of metadata descriptors of AI-ready datasets
3 Reusable RDM Planning Environments for Trainings and Workshops
4 SPARQL Query Generation for Efficient Scientific Data Access of ELIXIR resources
5 Mapping of research software quality indicators across the ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem
6 Gender representation in ELIXIR-supported publications: a visibility analysis across academic search engines
7 Enhancing the Training metrics database (TMD) for improved reporting
8 Data Model Converter: Bridging Cohort Information Across Biomedical Data Models
9 BioHackrXiv: improving biohackathon publications
10 BioSchemas for mortals
11 Galaxy CoDex - Ensuring Galaxy community sustainability through resource aggregation and annotation
12 Perturb -Bench: large-scale benchmarking of perturbational modelling tools in complex single-cell data
13 Interconnecting identifiers.org into a broader metadata connectivity
14 FAIRly easy APIs for research data in (Bio)Schema.org and RDF
15 Enhancing interoperability of biomedical resources using ontologies
16 Enhancing bio.tools by Semantic Literature Mining
17 Development of FAIR image analysis workflows and training in Galaxy
18 Expanding FAIR database integration through elucidation and transformation of underlying graph schemas
19 Creating user benefit from ARC-ISA RO-Crate machine-actionability
20 Structuring Clinical Reports into OMOP Common Data Model (CDM)
21 Enhancing multi-omic analyses through a federated microbiome analysis service
22 Enabling Secure Data Access from Galaxy to (F)EGA
23 MARS: Multi-omics Adapter for Repository Submissions, preparing for launch
24 Increasing FAIRness of digital agrosystem resources by extending Bioschemas
25 Recognising research software contributions leveraging the ELIXIR infrastructure
26 Reducing the environmental impact of Galaxy
27 Integrating Bioconductor packages with the ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem using EDAM
29 ELIXIR FAIR Lesson Plan Handbook: advancing researchers’ & data stewards’ FAIR skills
30 The BioHackathon Cloud
31 Executable metadata mappings to FAIRify Biodiversity Genome Annotations
32 VCF Explorer: Empowering Genomic Data Interaction

Previous projects

If you would like to browse projects from previous BioHackathons, go to the About page. This contains links to the past BioHackathons websites, and to the GitHub repositories of each BioHackathon. The GitHub repositories contain descriptions of all the projects in that year.