iReceptor Plus team members Brian Corrie, Laura Gutierrez Funderburk and Felix Breden led the hackathon team, working on a project called the AIRR Adaptive Adapter.
Some 140 scientists attended a conference of the AIRR Community and the iReceptor PlusProject in Genoa, Italy, in the middle of May, along more than 20 virtual participants.
George Washington University and FDA researchers called for big data infrastructure to support the future of personalized medicine.
If two heads are better than one, then numerous groups of researchers working in numerous countries around the world but sharing data aimed at the same target are preferable to independent and isolated scientific work.