80 builders. Imperial College. Supported by Claude. 5 themes and 48 hours of hacking. ⚡
The Imperial BioHack is a premiere event tentatively held at City and Guilds Building on Nov 28-29 brought by the Imperial College Computational Biology Society in collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Society. 🧪
Come and hack with us, and leave with a working MVP, benchmark, pipeline, or even a pre-print in less than 48 hours.
Whether you are a software engineer, biologist, statistician, or just someone curious about hackathons or science, this event is meant to be an interdisciplinary platform for participants from various backgrounds to bring their skills to build and design solutions to five pressing challenges in biology.
Website: strandbiohack.io
Prizes
All participants will get $100 in Claude API credits.
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1st: $2000 in Claude Credits
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2nd: $1000 in Claude Credits
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3rd: $500 in Claude Credits
Themes
Specific tracks are TBD and will be announced closer to the date when the event is going to be held. These tentatively selected themes, however, should serve as guidance as to what the tracks will be build around:
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Biosecurity
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Antimicrobial resistance
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Food security and crop resilience
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Decarbonization through enzyme design
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Reproducible workflows and pipelines
More on these at stranbiohack.io
Venue, schedule, and other information
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Venue: the tentative venue is going to be the City and Guilds building at Imperial College. Precise location is subject to change. It is expected that overnight hacking will not be permitted in the building.
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Dates are 28-29 November. Also subject to change.
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Schedule: 28 Nov is going to be dedicated to team formation, hacking, workshops, talks, panels. 29 Nov is going to see the teams and participants submit their solutions early in the day and present their projects if selected. Judging will take place on 29 Nov. Exact schedule is TBD.
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Sponsors: we are currently sponsored by Claude and are going to reveal more sponsors we are in talks with soon!
