🇪🇸 ISCIII - CIBERINFEC (Madrid)

Hackathon - March 2026

This is a subpage of the main event page: Hackathon - March 2026.

See the main event page for event registration and information about the event.

Location
BU-ISCIII / CIBERINFEC-BIPLAT

Majadahonda Campus. St. Pozuelo, 28, 28222 Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain. Building 53, Meeting Rooms 1 and 2 (To be confirmed)

https://www.isciii.es/en/

Contacts

Main contacts:

Participation

Attendees from outside ISCIII and outside Madrid can attend.

Please make sure to select this local site during registration.

Kindly contact the local organizers, Sarai, Daniel or Sara (listed above), prior to the event, as we have limited space. We hace space for 25 attendees.

Site Specific guidelines

We will have two meeting rooms booked for the entire hackathon (to be confirmed):

  • Meeting room 1: 53-00-239 (space for 12 people)
  • Meeting room 2: 53-00-240 (space for 13 people)

This means we can host up to 25 participants.

Projects

We will work on open issues around nf-core pipelines, including:

  • nf-core/viralrecon: this project is meant to be hybrid (on-line and local) as people from outside Spain will be joining too. You can join the slack channel to be updated in the on-line mode. More information of the project here
  • nf-core/bacass: this project is meant to be hybrid, you can join in person and on-line. You can join the slack channel to be updated in the on-line mode. More information of the project here

Prior training

📚 We encourage participants to have completed the following Nextflow training materials:

Schedule

Day 1 – Wednesday, March 11

TimeLocationTask
9:00 - 10:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Opening & Pipeline introduction
10:00 - 10:30Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Task Planning and Distribution
10:30 - 11:30Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
11:30 - 12:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Coffee-break
12:00 - 14:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
14:00 - 15:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Lunch break
15:00 - 16:30Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
16:30 - 17:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Wrap-up
17:00 - 18:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Games & Networking

Day 2 – Thursday, March 12

TimeLocationTask
9:00 - 9:30Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Task and Questions Review
9:30 - 11:30Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
11:30 - 12:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Coffee-break
12:00 - 14:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
14:00 - 15:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Lunch break
15:00 - 16:30Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
16:30 - 17:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Wrap-up
17:00 - 18:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Games & Networking

Day 3 – Friday, March 13

TimeLocationTask
9:00 - 9:30Rooms: 2nd floor 53.02.262.0 (Viralrecon), Ground floor 53-00-234 (Bacass)Task and Questions Review
9:30 - 11:30Rooms: 2nd floor 53.02.262.0 (Viralrecon), Ground floor 53-00-234 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
11:30 - 12:00Rooms: 2nd floor 53.02.262.0 (Viralrecon), Ground floor 53-00-234 (Bacass)Coffee-break
12:00 - 14:00Rooms: 2nd floor 53.02.262.0 (Viralrecon), Ground floor 53-00-234 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
14:00 - 15:00Rooms: 2nd floor 53.02.262.0 (Viralrecon), Ground floor 53-00-234 (Bacass)Lunch break
15:00 - 16:30Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Hands-on: Implementation and Development
16:30 - 17:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Final Wrap-up
17:00 - 18:00Rooms: 53-00-239 (Viralrecon), 53-00-240 (Bacass)Games & Networking

Lunch

There will be access to microwaves for heating lunch boxes, and some people will likely buy food at the cafeteria as well.

🍕 On Friday we will hace some pizza to wrap-up the hackathon.