BRC NIAID AI Codeathon 2025
Accelerating FAIR Data and Tools with AI
November 12–14, 2025
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
The NIAID Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) invite researchers, data scientists, and developers to a three-day AI Codeathon focused on improving Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR-ness) of BRC data and tools using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs).
Event Goals
- Apply AI and LLMs to improve accessibility and usability of BRC data and tools
- Enhance interoperability and reuse of BRC resources
- Foster collaboration between infectious disease researchers, AI developers, and bioinformaticians
- Deliver openly available prototypes that can serve as seeds for long-term community solutions
Project Topics
Participants will form teams around proposed themes:
- Virtual BRC Helpdesk - AI-powered helpdesk to guide users through bioinformatics tasks
- Automated Workflow Generation - Generate and run workflows from user descriptions
- Knowledge Extraction and Curation - Extract biological insights from literature
- Function Assignment - Predict functions for uncharacterized genes
- Outbreak Monitoring - Track and process outbreak data for real-time monitoring
- Virtual AI Co-scientist - Multi-agent system for hypothesis generation and ranking