Building Genomic Analysis Pipelines in a Hackathon Setting

71 We assembled teams of genomics professionals to assess whether we could rapidly 72 develop pipelines to answer biological questions commonly asked by biologists and others new 73 to bioinformatics by facilitating analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. In January 2015, 74 teams were assembled on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus to address questions in 75 the DNA-seq, epigenomics, metagenomics and RNA-seq subfields of genomics. The only two 76 rules for this hackathon were that either the data used were housed at the National Center for 77 Biotechnology Information (NCBI) or would be submitted there by a participant in the next six 78 months, and that all software going into the pipeline was open-source or open-use. Questions 79 proposed by organizers, as well as suggested tools and approaches, were distributed to 80 . CC-BY 4.0 International license peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not . http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/018085 doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online Apr. 16, 2015;