H3ABioNet / IBM Research Africa hackathon on Malaria Drug Resistance for a DREAM challenge: Application form
Workshop Overview: H3ABioNet, the University of Notre Dame and IBM Research Africa are organizing a joint hackathon on a complex biomedical research question on antimalarial drug resistance to prepare preliminary datasets for the release of a Dialogues in Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM) challenges. This data analysis hackathon aims to prepare data for the launch of a two-fold DREAM Challenge on malaria drug resistance prediction from transcriptional response in the context of (1) single drug treatment and (2) multi-drug treatment.
Venue of workshop: Johannesburg, South Africa
Dates for the workshop: 5th September to 10th September 2016
Registration opens: 23rd June 2016
Registration closes: 11th July 2016
Notification date: 21st July 2016
**NB: Pre-selected applicants might be invited by the organizing committee to take part in a Skype interview between the 25th and the 28th of July 2016.