The third international hackathon for applying insights into large-scale genomic composition to use cases in a wide range of organisms.

In October 2021, 59 scientists from 14 countries and 13 U.S. states collaborated virtually in the Third Annual Baylor College of Medicine & DNANexus Structural Variation hackathon. The goal of the hackathon was to advance research on structural variants (SVs) by prototyping and iterating on open-source software. This led to nine hackathon projects focused on diverse genomics research interests, including various SV discovery and genotyping methods, SV sequence reconstruction, and clinically relevant structural variation, including SARS-CoV-2 variants. Repositories for the projects that participated in the hackathon are available at https://github.com/collaborativebioinformatics.
Competing Interests: Competing interests: Ben Busby is a full-time employee of DNAnexus. Rebecca Lowdon is a full-time employee of Bayer Crop Sciences. Ramanandan Prabhakaran is a full-time employee of Hoffmann-La Roche Limited. Luis F Paulin is sponsored by Genentech, Inc. Wouter De Coster has received travel reimbursement and free consumables from ONT. FJS received research support from ONT and PacBio. Alejandro Rafael Gener is an editorial board member of AIDS, and has received poster bursaries from ONT in 2019.
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