BIOMICS Twinning project, a partnership between EMBL, GIMM, CRG and ETH Zurich, funded by EU, is running a Hackathon at EMBL-EBI in February 2026. 

Participants will spend 2.5 days working in small groups with diverse expertises on programming and data science problems, paired with mentors.

Key information (and see the website https://biomics.bacpop.org/):

• Hackathon dates: 23rd-25th February 2026.
• Location: EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton (Cambridgeshire), United Kingdom.
• Project proposal deadline: November 30th, 2025.
• Hackathon is open to anyone who is affiliated with one of the partner institutes: EMBL, GIMM, CRG, and ETH Zurich.
• Attendee registration opens: November 15th, 2025.
• Attendee registration closes: January 15th, 2025.
• Funding: Some travel bursaries will be available for project submitters and attendees. See forms for details.

We have just opened the call for project proposals under the following fields:

• Biological simulators (e.g. for population genetics).
• Machine learning/deep learning.
• Web portals for bioinformatic applications, WebAssembly, interactive visualisation.
• Biological data visualisation.
• Parallelisation, optimisation, GPU acceleration for bioinformatic methods.
• Biological imaging.

If you are working on a problem, or have an idea in these areas, which would benefit from a few days intensive problem solving a programming in groups, and you are affiliated with one of the BIOMICS consortium institutes, contact your training unit or send us an email, to get more information on how to submit your project/idea.