Journal Article

The IPDGC/GP2 Hackathon - an open science event for training in data science, genomics, and collaboration using Parkinson’s disease data

Makarious, Mary B., Jadhav, Bharati, Real, Raquel, Yuan, Jie, Müller-Nedebock, Amica Corda, Tan, Manuela M. X., Song, Yeajin, Murtadha, Ruqaya, Noyce, Alastair J., Saini, Prabhjyot, Vitale, Dan, Alvarez Jerez, Pilar, Lake, Julie, Senkevich, Konstantin, Storm, Catherine, Elsayed, Inas, Bandres-Ciga, Sara, Reyes-Pérez, Paula R., Gil-Martinez, Ana-Luisa, Singleton, Andrew, Nalls, Mike A., Betancor, Oswaldo Lorenzo, Yu, Eric, Salazar, Gabriela, Illarionova, Anastasia, Huxford, Brook, Pillay, Nikita Simone, Foote, Isabelle Francesca, Periñán, María Teresa, Sivakumar, Ramiya, Leonard, Hampton L., Reynolds, Regina H., Brolin, Kajsa, Grenn, Francis P., Martinez-Carrasco, Alejandro, Dey, Sumit, Scotton, William J., Iankova, Vassilena, Chetty, Devina, Bustos, Bernabe I., Rao, Shilpa C., Towns, Clodagh, Hu, Ruifneg, Blauwendraat, Cornelis, Jama, Alina, Antar, Tarek, Rateau, Geoffrey, Iwaki, Hirotaka, Kim, Jonggeol Jeff, Ta, Michael, Leal, Thiago Peixoto, Jansen van Rensburg, Zuné, al-Ouran, Rami, Wu, Lesley, Abrahams, Shameemah, Moore, Anni

2023

Overview

Open science and collaboration are necessary to facilitate the advancement of Parkinson’s disease (PD) research. Hackathons are collaborative events that bring together people with different skill sets and backgrounds to generate resources and creative solutions to problems. These events can be used as training and networking opportunities, thus we coordinated a virtual 3-day hackathon event, during which 49 early-career scientists from 12 countries built tools and pipelines with a focus on PD. Resources were created with the goal of helping scientists accelerate their own research by having access to the necessary code and tools. Each team was allocated one of nine different projects, each with a different goal. These included developing post-genome-wide association studies (GWAS) analysis pipelines, downstream analysis of genetic variation pipelines, and various visualization tools. Hackathons are a valuable approach to inspire creative thinking, supplement training in data science, and foster collaborative scientific relationships, which are foundational practices for early-career researchers. The resources generated can be used to accelerate research on the genetics of PD.

• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
• Subject: 631/208/212 / 706/648/180/120 / Basic Medicine / Biomedical and Life Sciences / Biomedicine / Clinical Medicine / Collaboration / Data science / Klinisk medicin / Medical and Health Sciences / Medical Genetics and Genomics (including Gene Therapy) / Medicin och hälsovetenskap / Medicinsk genetik och genomik (Här ingår: Genterapi) / Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper / Neurologi / Neurology / Neurosciences / Open access / Parkinson's disease