FAIRyMAGs Hybrid Hackathon 2025: Optimising Metagenomics Assembled Genomes building

  • Freiburg & Online

Educators:
Paul Zierep (RBC), Bérénice Batut (ELIXIR-FR)

Date:
October 6-9th, 2025

Location:
Georges-Koehler-Allee 079, D-79110 Freiburg, Germany & Online

Contents:
Metagenomics Assembled Genomes building workflows are both technically and scientifically challenging, yet they are essential tools for reducing microbial dark matter, as most microbes cannot be cultivated.

As part of the FAIRyMAGs project within the ELIXIR BFSP Programme, we are organizing a 4-day hackathon (October 6-9th)and 1-day for an optional social event (October 10th). We warmly invite the community to join us either in person in Freiburg or online. This event is an opportunity to collaborate, discuss, and improve MAGs workflows together!

FAIRyMAGs is led by Paul Zierep (ELIXIR-DE) and Bérénice Batut (ELIXIR-FR) in collaboration with Giuseppe Defazio (ELIXIR-IT), Bruno Fosso (ELIXIR-IT), Martin Beracochea (EMBL-EBI), Santiago Sanchez (EMBL-EBI), that will be participating the hackathon.

Learning goals:
The learning goals of this 4-day scientific and technical hackathon are to optimize Metagenomics Assembled Genomes building by:

  • 🚀 Enhancing FAIR MAGs building Workflows
    • Optimizing assembly strategies: Individual assembly vs. co-assembly vs. grouped-assembly, Automating decision-making for assembly selection
    • Bin refinement improvements: Where do we go beyond MetaWrap? Should we integrate more binning tools for better results?

  • 📚Developing user-friendly training materials

  • Advancing workflow evaluation methods (using CAMI infrastructure & real data)
    • Have metagenomic WGS samples? Want to create MAGs? This is your chance!
  • ⚙️ Building intelligent computational resource estimation tools
    Whether you're using Nextflow, Snakemake, or Galaxy, resource allocation is key. Over-provisioning wastes resources; under-provisioning leads to failed jobs. Let’s design workflow-agnostic tools that optimize resource usage, reducing computational waste and environmental impact!

     

Prerequisites:
Only for experts in Metagenomics and Bioinformatics! Basic knowledge of Galaxy is also helpful. 

Keywords: 
Galaxy, Metagenomics

Tools:
Galaxy

Contact:
GTN: https://galaxyproject.org/events/2025-10-06-fairy-ma-gs-hackathon/
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Registration:
https://forms.gle/KQK7arqNjqthLRcG6