A one day bioinformatics hackathon organized by ELIXIR
held in occasion of the NETTAB 2016 Workshop

See details and register at http://tinyurl.com/registryhackathon10.

Date and time
The hackathon will be held on Monday October 24, 2016, from 10.00 AM to 7.00 PM.

Contents
The hackathon will include the following two main strands:

• Biosoftware description using bio.tools and schema.org
• Deployment of bioinformatics tools and services through Docker

Biosoftware description using bio.tools and schema.org
This session will provide a forum for knowledge exchange, technical discussions and hacking on the ELIXIR Tools & Data Services Registry (bio.tools) and the bioschemas project (bioschemas.org), with focus on extending schema.org for bioinformatics tools in a way that is compatible with bio.tools.
Participants will self-organise on the day and can pursue any tasks or discussion of interest.
The expected activities and outcomes include:

• Understand the aims of bio.tools & bioschemas and see how you can contribute
• Review existing software description models in bio.tools and schema.org
• Map the bio.tools and schema.org models
• Come up with a bioschemas bioinformatics software specification and produce a candidate type for schema.org
• Trial mark-up of bio.tools tool cards (e.g. https://bio.tools/tool/CBS/SignalP/4.1)
• Explore provision of such mark-up – for use on local sites – as a bio.tools service

Deployment of bioinformatics tools and services through Docker
This strand will provide a forum for knowledge exchange, technical discussions and hacking along the following lines:

• Docker+Galaxy integration: deployment of bioinformatics tools and services in Galaxy through Docker, Galaxy development made easy
• Galaxy in Docker and Galaxy flavours: https://slides.com/bgruening/the-galaxy-docker-project/live#/
• Docker-ization of ELIXIR-ITA services/tools.
• Docker-iRODS integration (see https://github.com/gmauro/boxed-irods)
• Docker-ization with layer-donning: RIP Dockerfiles, the easiest way to create efficient images without doing anything! https://slides.com/bgruening/docker-layer-donning/live#/
• How to ensure compatibility between containers? Study case: integration of various NGS packages within a same docker image: sometimes not obvious to combine existing containers.
• Using Docker containers in a Cloud platform (INFN-Bari and INDIGO-DataCloud examples)
• Using Docker to develop a Galaxy “on demand” platform through cloud technologies

Attendees
All welcome (technical & non-technical people!)
Register by adding your name in the following public document:
http://tinyurl.com/registryhackathon10.