Join the Australian Outpost of BioHackathon Europe 2025

Are you interested in joining this year’s BioHackathon Europe, but can’t face the long haul flights? You should join the Australian Outpost team who will gather to work locally, while checking in regularly with our international colleagues.

This is a unique opportunity to participate in a significant global event and network with your international peers while working intensively on practical bioinformatics challenges. We will cover your costs when you come to Melbourne for the duration of ELIXIR’s BioHackathon: 3 Nov to 7 Nov 2025. Participation will work mostly within our business hours, plus catch up live in the early evening with the teams in Berlin. We always make it fun, and you’ll get to know others from around Australia while you learn new skills.

We’ve narrowed down the projects we’re interested in, and want to hear what you want the Australian Outpost of the BioHackathon to work on: 

• Automatic workflow for benchmarking BUSCO genes for phylogenomics

• Streamlining FAIR Metadata for Biodiversity Genome Annotations

• Expanding the Benchmarking Landscape for Long-Read-Transcriptomics including Novel Datasets and Pipelines

• METRICS - Monitoring of Key Performance Indicators for ELIXIR Services

BioHackathon aims to:

• Advance the development of an open source infrastructure for data integration to accelerate scientific innovation

• Engage technical people in the bioinformatics community to work together on topics of common interest

• Strengthen interactions, establish and reinforce collaborations through hands-on programming activities.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Australian Outpost of the BioHackathon Europe, and tell us which project/s you would like to participate in, and why. You can read last year’s story and a participant's blog post on why attending is so valuable for inspiration. Once we get a feel for who is interested, we will select a team of people and organise our meetup. There’s no need to register for a place on the BioHackathon Europe website - they have reserved places for the Australian Outpost.

Please submit your expression of interest to comms@biocommons.org.au by 5 Sep 2025.