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