Each year, since 2018, ELIXIR organises BioHackathon Europe, bringing together bioinformaticians from around the world.
The BioHackathon offers an intense week of hacking, with over 160 international participants, to work on diverse and exciting projects. The week starts with a half-day symposium to introduce these, followed by five days of hacking with a sole aim – coding to address challenges in bioinformatics.
BioHackathon Europe 2026
BioHackathon Europe 2026 will take place from 9 to 13 November in Barcelona.
Details will be added to the BioHackathon website in the near future.
Companies are welcome to participate. Contact the ELIXIR Outreach Officer, Flora Foltanyi (flora.foltanyi@elixir-europe.org), if you have any questions.
Previous BioHackathons
- BH2024: GitHub repo | News story | Photos
- BH2023: Website | GitHub repo | News story | Photos
- BH2022: Website | GitHub repo | News story | Photos
- BH2021: Website | GitHub repo | News story | Photos
- BH2020: Website | GitHub repo | News story
- BH2019: Website | GitHub repo | News story | Photos
- BH2018: Website | GitHub repo | Photos
Contact
Contact for the organising committee: biohackathon-europe@elixir-europe.org
The first BioHackathon Europe took place in Paris in 2018. It was based on the BioHackathons that The National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) and Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) have organized in Japan since 2008 (see their BioHackathon website).