2026 BioHackathon

First, choose which site you would like to register for (and click above). There are up to 50 places at each site and the places are given on the first-come-first served basis.

You can either bring your own project or collaborate with others.

If you have your own project, briefly outline it during the registration and let us know if you are open for other participants to join your team. Alternatively, simply skip the project description and specify that you'd rather join someone else’s team. Either way, provide three keywords describing your project, the skills or the area you'd like to work on during the hackathon.

The projects do not have to answer a specific biological question, and can be purely theoretical, e.g. pure graph theory task, so long as the results (in the long term) could be applied to answer a biological question.

You need to register for the event via Eventbrite (links above) and also sign in to this website to see, express interest and propose projects.

The event will run over 3 days where you can work on your project alongside everyone else attending

There will be an evening social event after the first day, and an international pub quiz after the second day

Before the event we will open a site where you can talk to other participants to arrange project groups and discuss how to start your project if you are working collaboratively

We would like to attract participants with different programming levels and expect more experienced programmers to support less experienced in their team. We envisage teams formed across the sites, so get ready for loads of Zoom/Teams work too!

We would like this event to be stress-free and will not enforce teams to deliver on the projects. However, all code should be made publicly available. We also aim to publish a short description of all projects in the form of the citable hackathon proceedings (not compulsory, but highly encouraged).