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