We are pleased to announce the second installment of the Virus Hunting Codeathon that will take place from November 4-6, 2019 at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The NCBI will help run this bioinformatics codeathon, hosted by the UMIACS and CBCB at the University of Maryland. The purpose of this event is to continue develop techniques, code, and pipelines to identify known, taxonomically definable, and novel viruses from metagenomic datasets on cloud infrastructure.
This event is for researchers, including students and postdocs, who are already engaged in the use of bioinformatics data or in the development of pipelines for virological analyses from high-throughput experiments. We especially encourage people who have experience in Computational Virus Hunting or related fields to participate. The event is open to anyone selected for the codeathon and willing to travel to College Park (see below).
TOPICS
- Fast, federated indexing
- Big Query
- Metadata features
- Genome graphs for viruses
- Approximate taxonomic analysis
- Domain/HMM Boundary and Taxonomic Refinement
- Bringing together approximate taxonomy and domain models
- Sequence data quality metrics
- Phage-host interactions
We will provide the final list of projects before the codeathon starts.