Hackathon

O|B|F Codefests

Since 2010, people from the O|B|F project communities have organized or co-organized short 2-3 day events focused on collaborative coding, documentation, and better interoperation between O|B|F and other bioinformatics open-source projects.

• Codefest 2013: July 17-18, 2013, in Berlin, Germany.
• EU Codefest 2012: July 19-20, 2012, in Lodi, Italy.
• Codefest 2012: July 11-12, 2012, at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• Codefest 2011: July 13-14, 2011, in Vienna, Austria.
• Codefest 2010: July 7-8, 2010, in Boston, MA, USA.

O|B|F-run hackathons

• 2002 hackathon pictures.
  • Sponsored by O'Reilly and Electric Genetics
  • This gathering worked on the BioSQL and OBDA standards.
• 2003 hackathon pictures.
  • Sponsored by Apple Asia
  • This gathering focused more on BioSQL and OBDA as well as several supporting projects from the different toolkits.

Other hackathons involving O|B|F projects

• 2006 NESCent Phyloinformatics Hackathon
  • Dec 11-15, 2006, in Durham, North Carolina. Sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent).
• 2008 BioHackathon
  • Feb 11-15, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan. Sponsored by the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) and the Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC).
• 2009 BioHackathon
  • Mar 16-20, 2009, in Tokyo and Okinawa, Japan. Sponsored by the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
• 2010 BioHackathon
  • Feb 8-12, 2010, in Tokyo, Japan. Sponsored by the Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) and the Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC).