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Events: NCBI Hackathon
Submitted by Urska C; posted on Saturday, February 13, 2016
March 21-23, 2016
Note the short registration deadline of 2/19/2016!
Shreveport, LA, USA
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/02-08-2016-southern-hackathon-march/
Please, consider participating in this exciting event that will be hosted outside of NIH for the first time!
NCBI to assist Louisiana State University in South and Southeast regional genomics hackathon
From March 21st to 23rd, NCBI will assist Louisiana State University (LSU) in hosting a regional genomics hackathon in Shreveport, LA. This event is for students, postdocs, investigators and other researchers already engaged in the use of pipelines for genomic analyses from next-generation sequencing data or metadata (some projects are available to other non-scientific developers, mathematicians or librarians). Researchers and/or data scientists from the South and Southeast United States are especially encouraged to apply, but the event is open to anyone selected for the hackathon and able to travel to Shreveport.
Working groups of 5-6 individuals will be formed into five or six teams. These teams will build pipelines and tools to analyze large datasets within a cloud infrastructure. The potential subjects for this iteration are:
- Network Analysis of Variants
- Structural Variation
- RNA-Seq
- Streaming Data and Metadata
- Neuroscience/Immunity
- Command-line user-interface design
Please see the application for specific team projects.
Organization:
After a brief organizational session, teams will spend three days analyzing a challenging set of scientific problems related to a group of datasets. Participants will analyze and combine datasets in order to work on these problems. This course will take place at the Louisiana State Health Sciences Center - Shreveport in Shreveport, Louisiana and is hosted by the two LSU institutions in town: LSU Health Sciences Center and LSU Shreveport.
Datasets:
Datasets will come from the public repositories housed at the NCBI. During the course, participants will have an opportunity to include other datasets and tools for analysis. Please note, if you use your own data during the course, we ask that you submit it to a public database within six months of the end of the event.
Products:
All pipelines and other scripts, software and programs generated in this course will be added to a public GitHub repository designed for that purpose. A manuscript outlining the design and usage of the software tools constructed by each team will be submitted to an appropriate journal.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, complete this form, which takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Applications are due February 2/19/16 by 5 pm ET. Participants will be selected from a pool of applicants based on the experience and motivation they provide on the form. Prior students and applicants are encouraged to reapply. Accepted applicants will be notified on February 22 by 2 pm ET, and have until February 26 at 9 am to confirm their participation. If you confirm, please make sure it is highly likely you can attend, as confirming and not attending bars other data scientists from attending this event. Please include a monitored email address, in case there are follow-up questions.
Note: Participants will need to bring their own laptop to this program. A working knowledge of scripting (e.g., Shell, Python) is necessary to be successful in this event. Employment of higher level scripting or programming languages may also be useful. Applicants must be willing to commit to all three days of the event. No financial support for travel, lodging or meals is available for this event. Also note that the course may extend into the evening hours on Monday and/or Tuesday. Please make any necessary arrangements to accommodate this possibility.
Please contact ben.busby[at]nih.gov with any questions. Finally, if you are interested in having NCBI facilitate a regional hackathon hosted at your institution, please fill out this form.
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