Hackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transfer

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dc.contributor.authorGhouila, Amel
dc.contributor.authorSiwo, Geoffrey Henry
dc.contributor.authorEntfellner, Jean-Baka Domelevo
dc.contributor.authorPanji, Sumir
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-22T12:35:11Z
dc.date.available2018-05-22T12:35:11Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractScientific 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.en_US
dc.description.accreditationSCOPUS
dc.identifier.citationGhouila, A. et al. (2018). Hackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transfer. Genome Research, 28: 1–7en_US
dc.identifier.issn1088-9051
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.228460.117.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3719
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pressen_US
dc.rights© 2018 Ghouila et al. This article, published in Genome Research, is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectCollaborative scienceen_US
dc.subjectHackathonsen_US
dc.subjectPeer reviewen_US
dc.subjectData generatorsen_US
dc.subjectBioinformaticiansen_US
dc.titleHackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transferen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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