ProtVista hackathon

Visualising a protein sequence alongside the multitude of publicly available annotations provides valuable insights and perspectives for biological research. These tools become significantly more powerful when you can seamlessly incorporate your own data, providing crucial context for the specific findings your lab or group produces.

This hackathon is dedicated to making this happen. We will focus on integrating your custom datasets into the newly refactored ProtVista library, made possible through a Research Software Maintenance Fund grant, empowering you to visualise your protein data. To get you moving quickly, we are providing a ProtVista Starter Kit designed specifically to help developers, bioinformaticians, and scientists bring their data to the platform. Our core developers will work hands-on with you and should any limitations or gaps appear in the current ProtVista API during your integration process, we will collaborate with you on the spot to engineer solutions.

Beyond integrating your own work, we invite you to make direct contributions to the ProtVista codebase, ensuring future researchers and consumers can more easily map and visualise their protein data. By putting our new configuration-driven architecture to work against your unique datasets, we will collaboratively uncover and address key areas for improvement. Through this process, we aim to identify and resolve software bugs exposed by novel data structures, brainstorm and prototype new features driven by real-world use cases, and pinpoint specific opportunities to clarify our documentation based directly on your onboarding experience.

Who is this course for?

This hackathon is suitable for developers, bioinformaticians, scientists, interested in exploring protein datasets.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this hackathon, you will be able to:

• Load your own protein data into the ProtVista library
• Develop and customise interactive protein visualisations
• Contribute to the development of ProtVista

Trainers

This hackathon, hosted on Zoom Meetings, is free to attend, but you need to register for a place beforehand, using the 'Register' button. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the hackathon.