Join the Australian Outpost of BioHackathon Europe 2026

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: 9 - 13 Nov 2026. Participation will work mostly within our business hours, plus catch up live in the early evening with the teams in Barcelona. 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: 

• Project 31: Nextflow to Galaxy Workflow Portability and FAIRness via Modular LLM Agent Skills

• Project 30: BiCoReCa (Biodiversity Community Resource Catalogue): Towards Centralized Curation and Integration

• Project 16: MiCoKnowGraph: Designing a Microbiome Collaborative Knowledge Graph linking complex, multi-domain data

• Project 10: Enabling workflows and EDAM annotations to display in community website deployments

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 previous 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.

Express your interest by emailing comms@biocommons.org.au by 25 Sep 2026