Part of IWDBA Conference 2020, Nona along with the Bio-Design Automation Consortium hosted a year long Bio-Design Automation hackathon – the BDAthlon! This year’s BDAthlon is a special programming contest in which teams work to solve specific computational problems identified by members of the synthetic biology.

Timeline

Here is a general timeline for the 2020 – 2021 BDAthlon:

Summer 2020

  • Planning of 2020 – 2021 BDAthlon
  • Curation of project ideas at IWBDA 2020
  • Launch of the 2020 – 2021 BDAthlon​

October 2020

  • Development Summit #1

January 2021

  • Development Summit #2​

April 2021

  • Development Summit #3

Summer 2021

  • End of 2020 – 2021 BDAthlon
  • Announcement of winners at IWBDA 2021