1st Network of BioThings Hackathon - registration open!
Michel Dumontier
What: 1st Network of BioThings Hackathon (#networkbiothings)
When: April 26-27, 2014
Where: This hackathon will be held concurrently at two sites (more info below):
- Stanford University
- Maastricht University
Why: Despite the massive amount of biomedical literature, only a small amount is available in a form that is readily computable. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is hosting the first hackathon to develop a comprehensive Network of BioThings (proteins, genes, pathways, mutations, drugs, diseases) extracted from scientific research articles and integrated with public biomedical data (see blog post http://goo.gl/i91ngK). During this hackathon, we will (1) identify motivating use cases, (2) define a shared, sustainable, multi-component infrastructure to build the NoB, and (3) implement common data representations, ontology-based programmatic interfaces, and develop cool applications. We will do this in an open, scalable, responsive manner so that it becomes a major asset for hackers and biomedical researchers worldwide.
This Hackathon will feature
- networking and mentoring with leading researchers and experts
- tutorials on text mining, terminology services, indexing and querying structured data.
- prizes for most significant contributions in a number of key areas
- $500 for best motivating use case
- $500 for most sustainable infrastructure design
- 2x$500 for best applications
Who: We’re looking for:
- Hackers and Mentors
- Biologists, Text Miners and Data Wranglers
- Ontologists, Terminologists, and Data Linkers
- Semantic Web novices and experts
- Systems and Network Biologists
- Crowdsourcing experts and functional game designers
- Skills in Large Text/Data Indexing, Facet Search and Browse, and REST APIs
- Domain experts to advise on motivating use cases
Come join us for 2 days of networking, designing, and coding culminating in prize-winning pitches and demos!
The Stanford Site
Location: Li Ka Shing Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Registration: $50 per participant - register here - Max 60 participants - first come first served!
Schedule
Saturday April 26
8:30AM: Registration and Breakfast
9:00AM: Introductions, Problem Statement, Ideas session
10:15AM: Project Pitches and Team Formation
11:00AM: Tutorials
12:15PM: Lunch is served
6:00PM: Progress Reports
7:30PM: Dinner in Palo Alto
Sunday April 27
8:00AM : Breakfast is served
12:15PM: Lunch is served
4:30PM : Pitches and Demos
6:00PM : Winners announced, prizes awarded, final remarks.
Sponsor NCBO The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is an NIH funded center to support biomedical research through tools and resources for ontology-based analyses. The NCBO is home to BioPortal, a repository of over 350 biomedical ontologies, and provides services to annotate text with ontology terms, and ontology-based data exploration. For more information, see the website athttp://www.bioontology.org
The Maastricht University site
Web site: http://projects.bigcat.unimaas.nl/hackaton-biothings/
Location: Maastricht University, building UNS50, Netherlands
Registration: http://projects.bigcat.unimaas.nl/hackaton-biothings/register/
Schedule
Saturday, April 26
12:00: Registration and Brunch
12:30: Introductions, Problem Statement, Ideas session
13:15: Project Pitches and Team Formation
14:00: Tutorials
18:00: Progress Reports (broadcasting to US site)
19:00: Pizza
Sunday, April 27
11:00: Watch video progress results of the S. Francisco Team and Brunch
16:30: Pitches and Demos