Highlights from the first BioAI Hackathon at Centre of New Technologies
12 10 2025
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On May 12-15 2025 the first BioAI Hackathon took place at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw. The hackathon was organized by the Laboratory of Functional and Structural Genomics of the Centre of New Technologies and by the Centre of New Technologies, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw and Inovo VC. Its aim was to explore novel AI-based solutions, including graph neural networks and large language models, for the following challenges: disease-gene prioritization, microbiome dynamics analysis, drug discovery for rare disease, study of splicing regulation, epigenomics data harmonization, investigation of chromatin reorganization and toxicological profiling. During fourd days over 50 scoentists worked in ten teams on solving these challeneges.
The BioAI Hackathon demonstrated the immense potential of AI methods, particularly graph neural networks, transformer models, and advanced regression architectures for extracting biologically meaningful insights from complex multi-modal datasets. Each team contributed novel workflows and proof-of-concept models that addressed specific biological questions, including gene regulation, splicing, environmental exposures, disease mutation prioritization, and pharmacogenomics. All projects are publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/SFGLab.
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