OSR186 COVID-19 Biohackathon [EN]

With the current situation around the spread of the COVID-19
pandemic, there are several initiatives pushing forward to help
finding solutions to successfully fight the virus. The global
bioinformatics community is pushing its own efforts and organized
the virtual COVID-19 Biohackathon. Starting today, contributors are
invited to virtually work together on multiple topics and share
their results openly via Github. "The goal of COVID-19-BH20 is to
create a cohesive effort and work on tooling for COVID-19 analysis.
The biohackathon will lead to more readily accessible data,
protocols, detection kits, protein predictions etc. We will also
push for policy change where it comes to non-public or hard to
access data because we are facing such challenges!" Konrad had the
chance to talk to one of the organizers, Leyla Jael Garcia-Castro,
about the idea and implementation of this endeavor. Enjoy!