OSR186 COVID-19 Biohackathon [EN]

With the current situation around the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several initiatives pushing forward to help finding solutions to successfully fight the virus. The global bioinformatics community is pushing its own efforts and organized the virtual COVID-19 Biohackathon. Starting today, contributors are invited to virtually work together on multiple topics and share their results openly via Github.

"The goal of COVID-19-BH20 is to create a cohesive effort and work on tooling for COVID-19 analysis. The biohackathon will lead to more readily accessible data, protocols, detection kits, protein predictions etc. We will also push for policy change where it comes to non-public or hard to access data because we are facing such challenges!"

Konrad had the chance to talk to one of the organizers, Leyla Jael Garcia-Castro, about the idea and implementation of this endeavor. Enjoy!

With the current situation around the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several initiatives pushing forward to help finding solutions to successfully fight the virus. The global bioinformatics community is pushing its own efforts and organized the virtual COVID-19 Biohackathon. Starting today, contributors are invited to virtually work together on multiple topics and share their results openly via Github.

„The goal of COVID-19-BH20 is to create a cohesive effort and work on tooling for COVID-19 analysis. The biohackathon will lead to more readily accessible data, protocols, detection kits, protein predictions etc. We will also push for policy change where it comes to non-public or hard to access data because we are facing such challenges!“

Konrad had the chance to talk to one of the organizers, Leyla Jael Garcia-Castro, about the idea and implementation of this endeavor. Enjoy!

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Shownotes: OSR186 COVID-19 Biohackathon [EN]

Welcome 00:00:00

Barcamp Open Science; — Open Science Radio Episodes for the Barcamp Open Science 2020 (more to come);.

COVID-19 pandemic 00:01:37

COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019); — ZB MED COVID-19 Hub;.

Leyla's Background and current work 00:04:39

Leyla Garcia; — EMBL-EBI; — Uniprot; — Semantic Web; — Linked data; — Bioinformatics; — ZB MED; — Knowlege Management Group;.

General intro to BioHackathons 00:06:08

Hackathon; — BioHackathon Website; — Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS); — DBCLS; — National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC); — NDBC; — Ontology; — BioHackathon Europe; — ISMB (International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology); — ECCB (European Conference on Computational Biology); — BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference); — Codefests at BOSC; — Scrum;.

The virtual COVID-19 BioHackathon 00:10:04

GitHub page of the COVID-19 BioHackathon — WirVsVirus Hackathon; — Sequence Alignment (Genomic Alignment); — ELIXIR Europe; — ELIXIR; — Pjotr Prins; — Pjotr Prins Twitter; — University of Tennessee Health Science Center; — Tazro Inutano Ohta; — Slack; — Zoom;.

Open to Contribution 00:19:57

GitHub page of the COVID-19 BioHackathon; — COVID-19 BioHackathon Goggle Groups mailing list; — COVID-19 BioHackathon Wiki; — COVID-19 BioHackathon Google Groups; — Slack Channel; — Registration for Signup is being distributed in the Google Groups; — Zoombombing — Topics for the BioHackathon;.

Epilogue 00:25:33

Twitter Hashtag for the virtual COVID-19 Biohackathon — Preprint initiative for BioHackathons at biohackrxiv.org; (OSF - Open Science Framework;) .

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