Virus hunting in the cloud: A hackathon story at ASV 2019

Are you going to ASV 2019? If you are, join us in a few days for a workshop on the virus hunting hackathon we helped run earlier this year. Session: Workshop #19: Virus Discovery Program Number: W-19-8 Time: Sunday, July … Continue reading

Follow “Pangenomics in the Cloud” hackathon projects on GitHub

NCBI is on the West Coast this week (March 25 – 27) for “Pangenomics in the Cloud,” a three-day hackathon hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz. Graphs are the name of the game here! The teams will be building graphs, managing … Continue reading

Follow the RNA-Seq in the Cloud hackathon on GitHub

The NCBI is in Chapel Hill, NC from March 11-13 for the “RNA-Seq in the Cloud” hackathon! We’re working hard to address public metadata in the RNA-Seq space. Please follow along on GitHub, fork and make pull requests during and … Continue reading

Pangenomics in the Cloud hackathon, March 25-27, 2019

We are pleased to announce the first ever pangenomics, graphs and haplotypes hackathon. From March 25-27, 2019, the NCBI will help run a bioinformatics hackathon in Santa Cruz, California, hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).  Potential topics … Continue reading

Announcing the first ever RNA-Seq in the Cloud hackathon!

From March 11-13, 2019, the NCBI will help run a bioinformatics hackathon in the North Carolina Research Triangle hosted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC). Potential topics include: technical metadata homogenization a simple interface for using ontologies … Continue reading