Hackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transfer
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Date
2018
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Abstract
Scientific research plays a key role in the advancement of human knowledge and pursuit of solutions to important societal
challenges. Typically, research occurs within specific institutions where data are generated and subsequently analyzed.
Although collaborative science bringing together multiple institutions is now common, in such collaborations the analytical
processing of the data is often performed by individual researchers within the team, with only limited internal oversight and
critical analysis of the workflow prior to publication. Here, we show how hackathons can be a means of enhancing collaborative
science by enabling peer review before results of analyses are published by cross-validating the design of studies or
underlying data sets and by driving reproducibility of scientific analyses. Traditionally, in data analysis processes, data generators
and bioinformaticians are divided and do not collaborate on analyzing the data. Hackathons are a good strategy to
build bridges over the traditional divide and are potentially a great agile extension to the more structured collaborations
between multiple investigators and institutions.
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Collaborative science, Hackathons, Peer review, Data generators, Bioinformaticians
Citation
Ghouila, A. et al. (2018). Hackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transfer. Genome Research, 28: 1–7