BioHackathon Europe 2026 projects

Explore the selected projects and project teams

Selected projects

The call for projects is now closed, and we are pleased to announce the selected projects for BioHackathon Europe 2026.

Each BioHackathon initiative is proposed and led by a team of up to three co-leads, with in-person participation encouraged to support collaborative development during the event. This year’s projects cover topics including AI-readiness, interoperability, research data management, biodiversity, workflows, knowledge graphs, FAIR principles and software sustainability.

The selected projects are listed below. Select a project title to view its full description.

1. Bridging ELIXIR nodes for collaborative and scalable BYOC in Galaxy and TREs
2. Enhancing AI-readiness of multi-modal data submission: a reference workflow
3. Developing Open Standards for a Semantic Framework in Plant Specialized Metabolism
4. Establishing a Flexible Open-Source Modeling System for Population-Scale Biology
5. A submission and visualisation interface for sharing community interoperability practices
6. Implementing Credit and Recognition for Research Outputs Beyond Publications in ELIXIR
7. PhyloAI: Extending a Machine Learning-Based Quartet Topology Classifier for Phylogenomic-Scale Tree Reconstruction
8. Advancing Research Software Quality across ELIXIR: Sustainable, Reproducible, and Interoperable Life-Science Software
9. From alignment to insight: synchronized MSA and 3D structure visualisation
10. Enabling workflows and EDAM annotations to display in community website deployments
11. VERDANT: Vocabulary Enrichment & Resolution of Diversity Annotations via Neural Technology
12. SampleSift: spatial querying and selection of geolocation-tagged biological samples
13. ELIXIR AI Ecosystem Integration: Bridging DOME, BioAIrepo and Galaxy
14. Unlocking Animal Data for Reproducible Research with ARC RO–Crate
15. From dream to reality: a knowledge graph of learning resources in practice
16. MiCoKnowGraph: Designing a Microbiome Collaborative Knowledge Graph linking complex, multi-domain data
17. Bridging Literature and Practice: Tool Co-citation Networks from Publications and Registered Workflows
18. Condeessi: a Conda-EESSI transpiler for increased software stack portability, performance and resilience
19. Towards a semantic artefact catalogue for exposome ontology cross-mapping
20. Automated Software Maturity Assessment and Tool Disambiguation in bio.tools
21. Supporting ELIXIR Nodes in maturing RDM services through the Data Stewardship Handbook
22. Open Pathway Maps: Scalable and FAIR Visualisation of Metabolic Networks
23. Single-cell dataset integration across repositories and species for cell type homology analyses
24. Evaluating and Securing AI-Assisted Workflows for Sensitive Data
25. DBTLHUB Interoperability Contracts: Standardised Phase Transitions for Engineering Biology
26. Who does what in ELIXIR? Building an agent-driven, low-maintenance "ELIXIR Atlas."
27. Expanding the ELIXIR TES Network with Life-Science Services
28. WeatherXBiodiversity: Exploring Harmonisation of Cross-Domain Data into FAIR Digital Objects
29. A gender-informed bibliometric index to amplify underrepresented voices in ELIXIR publications
30. BiCoReCa (Biodiversity Community Resource Catalogue): Towards Centralised Curation and Integration
31. Nextflow to Galaxy Workflow Portability and FAIRness via Modular LLM Agent Skills