What: 2nd BD2K / 4th Network of BioThings Hackathon (#hackBD2K) https://goo.gl/9FrjQl

This Hackathon will feature

• networking and mentoring with leading researchers and experts
• hacking on exciting projects
• prizes for the best contributions!
• delicious food during the hackathon

When: November 18-20, 2015

Where: This hackathon will be held at Stanford University Evening reception - Room 303 of the Medical School Office Building

Why: The mission of the BD2K initiative is to enable the biomedical research community to use the various types of Big Data for research. Biomedical research is rapidly becoming data-intensive as investigators are generating and using increasingly large, complex, multidimensional, and diverse datasets. However, the ability to release data, to locate, integrate, and analyze data generated by others, and to utilize the data is often limited by the lack of tools, accessibility, and training. http://bd2k.nih.gov/

During this hackathon we will work on projects relating to any of the major challenges of biomedical big data, including:

• Locating, gaining access to, standardizing, and documenting data, software tools, and APIs
• Developing effective, robust, reproducible and interoperable means of sharing data and software tools
• Developing new methods for analyzing biomedical big data
• Training researchers for analyzing biomedical big data

Who: We’re looking for:

• Hackers and Mentors
• Biologists, Text Miners and Data Wranglers
• Developers of visualizations for presenting and understanding large data sets
• Ontologists, Terminologists, and Data Linkers
• Semantic Web novices and experts
• Systems and Network Biologists
• Crowdsourcing experts and functional game designers
• Domain experts to advise on motivating use cases ** We welcome participants regardless of programming ability or biological knowledge!! **

###Schedule

Wednesday, Nov 18

6pm-10pm :

• Welcome social at 303 MSOB
• Food
• project pitches and team formation

Thursday, Nov 19

9am-? :

• Breakfast
• Hacking!
• Lunch provided
• Hacking!
• 7pm: Dinner at Stanford Golf Course.

Friday, Nov 20

9am-2pm :

• Breakfast!
• Hacking!
• Lunch provided
• Demo/Presentation preparation

2pm-3pm : Pitches and Demos

3:30pm : Prize announcements

Registration: [Registration closed]

Fees: $125/$30 (students). Max 50 participants - first come first served! Includes food & drinks, eligibility for prizes, and a fancy t-shirt.

Scholarships: Several scholarships will be available to promote education and diversity. Please contact micheldumontier at stanford.edu to request or sponsor a scholarship!

Contact: Please send questions or comments to the Network of Biothings mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/network-of-biothings or micheldumontier at stanford.edu

We welcome any project that a) is awesome and b) can be linked back to the mission of generating or facilitating the generation of new biological and medical knowledge. To help spur ideation, a few broad areas of particular interest include:

• Automated hypothesis generation and testing
• Network data analysis and visualization
• Intelligent systems for biomedical analysis
• Crowdsourcing systems for annotation and information extraction
• Representation and integration of the human variome
• Development of 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)

Please feel free to either come up with something completely new or take an existing open source project and expand its functionality.

Please visit and contribute your own ideas to the specific list of project ideas. Take a look at projects from the last hackathon.

A list of this year's projects can be found here

Sponsors

• CEDAR BD2K Center of Excellence (http://med.stanford.edu/cedar.html)
• Heart of Data Science BD2K Center of Excellence (http://www.heartbd2k.org/)