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  1. Cutting Edge: Science hackathons for developing interdisciplinary research and collaborations

    Derek Groen, Ben Calderhead
    Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.
  2. Cutting Edge: Using mobile sequencers in an academic classroom

    Sophie Zaaijer, Columbia University Ubiquitous Genomics 2015 class, Yaniv Erlich
    A university genomics class provides detailed examples of how to design and execute Oxford Nanopore MinION hackathons as part of an academic curriculum.
  3. Hacking new tools for knowledge discovery

    At Hack Cambridge Recurse, the eXplore, Knowledge Direct and SciChat projects piqued our interest.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Cutting Edge: Anatomy of BioJS, an open source community for the life sciences

    Guy Yachdav, Tatyana Goldberg ... Manuel Corpas
    Community nurturing is the single most important factor in determining the sustainability of an open source project such as BioJS.
  4. eLife judge with prizewinners

    Prototyping tools to improve the understanding of science

    We challenged hackers to produce prototypes in 24 hours at Hack24 2018.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations

    M Elise Lauterbur, Maria Izabel A Cavassim ... Ilan Gronau
    Stdpopsim, a framework for generating realistic chromosome-scale simulations, is expanded to facilitate simulations for non-model species, resulting in insights into how such simulations should be designed.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neuroscout, a unified platform for generalizable and reproducible fMRI research

    Alejandro de la Vega, Roberta Rocca ... Tal Yarkoni
    A web-based analysis platform for public fMRI data using naturalistic stimuli, leveraging state-of-the-art feature extraction models to enable more generalizable and reproducible findings.
  5. Group of people celebrating

    How DIY communities are pushing the frontiers of science

    Lucy Patterson reports back from Science Hack Day Berlin
    1. Neuroscience

    The Neurodata Without Borders ecosystem for neurophysiological data science

    Oliver Rübel, Andrew Tritt ... Kristofer E Bouchard
    The NWB data language enables reproduction, interchange, and reuse of diverse neurophysiology data, and the design principles of NWB are generally applicable to enhance discovery across biology through data FAIRness.
  6. Innovation: eLife challenges Hack24 participants to transform research communication with technology

    In March, eLife sponsored Hack24, a 24-hour hackathon in Nottingham, UK, involving 150 participants.

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