The third international hackathon for applying insights into large-scale genomic composition to use cases in a wide range of organisms

Authors

Kimberly Walker, Baylor College of MedicineFollow
Divya Kalra, Baylor College of MedicineFollow
Rebecca Lowdon, Bayer Crop ScienceFollow
Guangyi Chen, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, GermanyFollow
Fritz J. Sedlazeck, Baylor College of MedicineFollow
Ben Busby, DNAnexus, Mountain View, CAFollow
Chia-Sin Liew, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
et al.

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2022

Citation

Walker K, Kalra D, Lowdon R et al. The third international hackathon for applying insights into large-scale genomic composition to use cases in a wide range of organisms [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] F1000Research 2022, 11:530 https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.110194.1

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Open access

Abstract

In October 2021, 59 scientists from 14 countries and 13 U.S. states collaborated virtually in the Third Annual Baylor College of Medicine & DNANexus Structural Variation hackathon. The goal of the hackathon was to advance research on structural variants (SVs) by prototyping and iterating on open-source software. This led to nine hackathon projects focused on diverse genomics research interests, including various SV discovery and genotyping methods, SV sequence reconstruction, and clinically relevant structural variation, including SARS-CoV-2 variants. Repositories for the projects that participated in the hackathon are available at https://github.com/collaborativebioinformatics.