KAUST will host a BioHackathon, with the aim of stimulating synergy in the bioinformatics community within the MENA region and beyond. The Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) with the Women to Impact (WTI) team champion this event. It is supported and sponsored by KAUST Smart-Health Initiative, AI Initiative/SDAIA, and in partnership with Women in Science, Engineering and Research (WISER) 2023.

The BioHackathon will bring together researchers with corresponding skills and knowledge in order to work together and generate bioinformatics software and interoperable resources with a focus on the Middle East, as well as establish scientific collaborations across computational bioscience.

Submissions are now open until November 25, with the BioHackathon taking place February 7 to 11, 2023, at the KAUST Research and Technology Park (KRTP). The top 20 project submitters, and the top qualified developers who also applied, will be invited to participate in the Bio-Hackathon.

The BioHackthon is open to any expert worldwide in the field of bioinformatics, and women are encouraged to participate and take the opportunity to connect with accomplished researchers during the different stages of the event.

The outcome of this Biohackathon will include bioinformatics workflows, pipelines, scripts and software. Resources developed during the event must be open source and will be added to public repositories such as Github.

To submit your project or to find out more, visit Bio-Hackathon MENA 2023.