Together with our colleagues from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and in collaboration with HIDA and OpenHackathons, we hosted the Helmholtz GPU Hackathon 2023 in Jülich in May. I’ve blogged about the event for the Zweikommazwei blog of Forschungszentrum;
As mentioned in our Happy New Year blog post, one of the highlights in 2017 was a second GigaScience hackathon workshop which we held in November last year in our Hong Kong BGI office.
In the previous post I sketched out a workflow to annotate articles using hypothes.is and aggregate those annotations.
The rOpenSci project is a poster child for the fluid collaboration that has become increasingly common these days thanks to platforms like Twitter and GitHub. It has been really inspring to see open discussions take shape as rough ideas, which rapidly turn into prototype research software, all of which are now happening in the order of few days to weeks rather than months to years.
Our team has been cranking out a large number of tools over the past several months. As regular readers are aware, our software packages provide programmatic access to a diverse and extensive trove of scientific data. More recently we’ve expanded our efforts to build more general purpose and cross-domain tools.