[Open-bio-l] Invitation to hackathon in week of 2025-01-13 to work on openTECR Inbox

[Robert Giessmann]

Dear Open Bio people,

I am inviting you to join a world-wide, online-only hackathon in the week
of 13th of January 2025 (in roughly a month) from Monday to Friday (and
possibly the weekend, if anyone has interest). We will meet virtually
across time zones.

We will work on openTECR, caring about data on thermodynamics of
enzyme-catalyzed reactions. I presented this initiative at BOSC 2024, so
some of you might by now be the experts we are looking for!

In terms of biocuration, we are always looking out for volunteers with
knowledge (or deep interest) in annotating chemical reactions, compounds,
experimental conditions (pH, temperature, buffer). But we also have
important, yet rather simple tasks like spell checking / correction
according to a curation manual.

In terms of software engineering, every imaginable help is appreciated! :D
We are really more wet-lab scientists and less software engineers, so our
code is really fun (and/or a nightmare, depending on how you look at it). ;)


We collected a list of all tasks that came to our mind, which we possibly
could work on at the hackathon:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B85tFUaQyThzoWO1WB87ouGFkNcfAnBLdJ5f0_JtqQo/

We don't have any expectations regarding time commitment, so you are
welcome to just drop-by and see how much you would like to participate (or
just say hi and connect with like-minded people).


Last year, we achieved pretty much! We tackled approx. 7 tasks out of 40
ideas.
If you are into the technical side of things, you can get an impression of a
client-only search here <https://opentecr.github.io/simple-search/>,
or a server-powered
search website here <https://advanced-search-tecrdb.robert-giessmann.de/>.
If you are into community curation, have a look at the curation of ~5500
data points here
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jLIxEXVzE2SAzIB0UxBfcFoHrzjzf9euB6ART2VDE8c/edit>
and one curation manual here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vu0S6aNTA0xo8yGulJwdtE8lWITPstZMd0N-h5mADYc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.x6zwy672it7z>.
Another big, still pending task is to write a paper on the curation.

Thanks again to everyone who participated and contributed so far! <3

We do not have an official registration form yet, so just send me an email
if you are, in principle, interested in the hackathon and would possibly
like to learn more!

Thanks and best,
   Robert
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