Projects

Successful projects 2025

Hacking projects 2025

The call for projects is now closed, and we are excited to announce this year’s selection.

Each BioHackathon project is proposed and led by a team of up to three co-leads, with in-person attendance encouraged for collaborative work. The BioHackathon fosters innovation, practical development and teamwork in support of the ELIXIR and wider life science communities. This year’s projects cover topics in research data management, FAIR principles, training metadata, software interoperability, AI-readiness and more.

Project list

The titles of the projects selected by the Programme Committee for the 2025 edition of BioHackathon Europe are listed alphabetically below. Moving forward, links to the abstracts will be added, and co-leads are encouraged to submit pull requests to amend the project details.

# Project title
1 A shape-driven visual interface to integrate heterogeneous biomedical databases into knowledge graphs
2 Advancing the ELIXIR Maturity Model for RDM providers with Node-level implementation guidance
3 Automatic workflow for benchmarking BUSCO genes for phylogenomics
4 Beyond beacons: Establishing genomic background in European and international biobanks
5 Bidirectional bridge: GitHub ⇄ Bio.tools
6 Defining the components of an ELIXIR ML ecosystem
7 Embedding multimodal data into a vector database to make a blood atlas
8 Enriching metadata and broadening community inclusion in the ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem
9 Evolving FAIR image analysis in Galaxy for cross-domain and AI-ready applications
10 Expanding the benchmarking landscape for long-read-transcriptomics including novel datasets and pipelines
11 From sequence to citation
12 Gene recommendation system: Integrating gene features for enhanced research collaboration
13 Improving package annotation in metabolomics and proteomics via robust, ontology-driven LLM integration
14 Metabolomics and proteomics file format interoperability fest
15 METRICS – Monitoring of key performance indicators for ELIXIR Services
16 MiCoReCa (Microbiome Community Resource Catalogue): Towards centralised curation and integration
17 Minimal information standardisation of phenomic experimental data in animals
18 Mining the potential of knowledge graphs for metadata on training
19 MolViewSpec: A presentation layer for structural molecular data
20 New ELIXIR RIRs: Transparent and automated evaluation for a FAIRer future
21 Opening the TMD: Making it more usable, visible and connected
22 Scop3PTM Next: Interactive visualisation of PTM data across sequence, structure and interactions
23 Streamlining FAIR metadata for biodiversity genome annotations
24 Sustainable computing in Galaxy through reuse and energy-aware job scheduling
25 The BioHackCloud
26 Tools to develop constraint-based models in R: Adapting existing toolboxes
27 Towards a more scalable, sustainable and integrated research data management ecosystem
28 Towards a robust validation service for data and metadata in ARC RO-Crates
29 Towards repository-scale quality control in proteomics
30 Unpacking single-cell LLMs: A FAIR Framework for scalable, shareable single-cell foundation models
31 World DOMEination: Conquering ML metadata, one standard at a time

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.