NIH Data Science Hackathon on Jan. 22-24, 2018

Here is the NIH announcement:

"NIH Data Science Hackathon
	Date: January 22-24, 2018 Deadline for Applications: December 22, 2017 Location: NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland   The NIH National Center for Biomedical Informatics (NCBI) will help out with a Data Science hackathon on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland!  The hackathon will focus on general Data Science analyses including text, image and sequence processing. This event is for researchers, including students and postdocs, who have already engaged in the use of large datasets or in the development of pipelines for analyses from high-throughput experiments. Some projects are available to other non-scientific developers, mathematicians, or librarians.   The event is open to anyone selected for the hackathon and willing to travel to the NIH campus.  See link to application below.   Working groups of five to six individuals will be formed into five to eight teams.  These teams will build pipelines and tools to analyze large datasets within a cloud infrastructure.  Potential subjects for this iteration include: A machine learning tool for observing structural changes in time course light microscopy Automated systematic review methodology Splitting BLAST databases on the cloud Data mapping tool that assists users with mapping their data to CDEs Disease clustering from literature based on limited training data (phenotypic information) Variants from RNAseq (including single cell) Graphical User Interface for Gene Expression calculated on the fly from raw data Analysis of agricultural calorimetry experiments Dynamic viewing of single-cell RNAseq experiments   For more information and to apply, see https://goo.gl/forms/fux4nBr6FY3UxdI02. The project list will continue to evolve and will be updated on the application form.      Applications are due Friday December 22nd, 2017 by 9 pm ET.   Participants will be selected based on the experience and motivation they provide on the form.  Prior participants and applicants are especially encouraged to apply.  The first round of accepted applicants will be notified on December 25th by 10 am ET, and have until January 2nd at noon ET to confirm their participation.  If you confirm, please make sure it is highly likely you can attend, as confirming and not attending prevents other data scientists from attending this event.  Please include a monitored email address, in case there are follow-up questions.    Note: Participants will need to bring their own laptop to this program. A working knowledge of scripting (e.g., Shell, Python, R) is necessary to be successful in this event. Employment of higher level scripting or programming languages may also be useful. Applicants must be willing to commit to all three days of the event.  No financial support for travel, lodging or meals is available for this event.  Also note that the hackathon may extend into the evening hours on Monday and/or Tuesday. Please make any necessary arrangements to accommodate this possibility.   Please contact Ben Busby at ben.busby@nih.gov with any questions.  If you have an additional project you would like to see added to the form, please submit it here (https://goo.gl/forms/QTjASsJ4Wk4tM8cA3).     Individuals with disabilities who need Sign Language Interpreters and/or reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact, Ben Busby at ben.busby@nih.gov. " [less]	Date: January 22-24, 2018 Deadline for Applications: December 22, 2017 Location: NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland The NIH National Center for Biomedical Informatics (NCBI) will help out with a Da ...[more]