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Details

Key information and dates:

  • Hackathon dates: 23rd-25th February 2026.
  • Location: EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton (Cambridgeshire), United Kingdom.
  • Project proposal submissions are now closed
  • Hackathon is open to anyone who is affiliated with one of the partner institutes: EMBL, GIMM, GRC, and ETH Zurich
  • Attendee registration is open! Please register using the form here.
  • Attendee registration closes: January 15th, 2026 registration extended until January 31st, 2026
  • Funding: Some travel bursaries will be available for project submitters and attendees. See forms for details.
  • Accommodation: please find details about accommodation below.

Topics

The hackathon will feature projects on the following broad themes:

  • Biological simulators (e.g. for population genetics).
  • Machine learning/deep learning.
  • Web portals for bioinformatic applications, WebAssembly, interactive visualisation.
  • Biological data visualisation.
  • Parallelisation, optimisation, GPU acceleration for bioinformatic methods.
  • Biological imaging.

Project submissions are now closed. Below is a list of the titles and leaders of confirmed projects so far, with the rest to be added soon:

  • MAGMA: Multiomics-Augmented Gut Microbiome Agent-based model, Juan Escorcia, EMBL Heidelberg
  • TailStat, Jaiganesh Jagadeesh, GIMM
  • self.dna, Alessandro Lussana, EMBL-EBI
  • MGnify Contig Explorer, Vikas Gupta, EMBL-EBI

Partners and Funding

https://biomics.gimm.pt/

The BIOMICS consortium is composed of the following institutes:

We are grateful to the European Union’s Horizon programme, without which we would not be able to organise this hackathon.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101159926

More information

The BIOMICS project is a Twinning initiative funded by the European Union’s Horizon programme. It is dedicated to supporting researchers, clinicians, and students by equipping them with advanced skills in data science through training programmes, staff exchanges, courses, and conferences.

This hackathon is open to anyone affiliated with one of the BIOMICS institutes. It will take place at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), located on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton (Cambridgeshire), United Kingdom. Attendees from all institutes will work collaboratively on cutting-edge problems in biological data analysis. The hackathon will run for three days, from Monday 23rd to Wednesday 25th of February 2026.

Agenda

A provisional schedule is available.

Generally, the hackathon will consist of 4-5 sessions of group work, bookended by presentations about the problem being worked on.

We will also plan some social events during the hackathon, including a tour of the Wellcome Genome Campus, and a visit to a countryside inn.

Attendance Bursaries

There is some funding for partial or full attendance bursaries, but we cannot guarantee assistance to all applicants. Please select ‘yes’ during the submission of the forms, for both project submission and attendee registration.

Accommodation

Rooms at Hinxton Hall, the on-campus conference centre, have been put on hold and can be booked here with a pre-authorised code. Please email us at biomics@bacpop.org to get this code after you have registered (payment will be required). Participants may alternatively book accommodation nearby or in Cambridge.