The 2025 SPARC FAIR Codeathon
2025 Codeathon Key Dates:
- May 8 - Project pitch & Team leader sign-up opens
- June 8 - Project pitch deadline
- June 18 - Team sign-up opens
- July 18 - Teams sign-up close
- August 2-4 - FAIR Codeathon
- August 11 - Winner's announcement
*all dates based on eastern time zone
Award Recipients
Third Place - US$2,000
SPARCats
A o²S²PARC tool to accelerate data discovery by AI and bring breakthroughs in the laboratory into healthcare.
Team: Michael Hoffman, Mathias Roesler, Mishaim Malik, Omkar Athavale.
Second Place - US$4,000
SPARC FUSE
A file unification and standardization engine for SPARC datasets.
Team: Max Haberbusch, David Lung, Sebastian Hochreiter, Phillip Heute, Laurenz Berger.
First Place - US$8,000
SPARC Plugins
A framework for dynamically integrating rich, interactive web apps into the SPARC portal in accordance with FAIR principles.
Team: Kekayan Nanthakumar, Xinyue Zhong, Linkun Gao, Thiranja Prasad Babarenda Gamage, Chinchien Lin.
Participating Projects:
Click each team name to view their submission video.
spARCHIVE
An all-in-one desktop solution for SPARC dataset management. It acts as your personal, local library for SPARC data, equipped with tools that make finding, viewing, and managing your datasets a seamless experience.
Team: Haries Ramdhani, Maryam Saeedi, Akram Zarchini
Toxic Trace
A platform for exploring the effect of toxins on the human body.
Team: Jesse Khorasanee, Anya Pearce, Alex Radley
Q-SPARC
An interactive Python chatbot for intuitive exploration of SCKAN and Flatmap.
Team: Matthew French, Johnny Xu, Yun Gu, Dan Zhang, Huayan Zeng.
Thank you to the judges:
- JOSEPH MONACO - NIH BRAIN INITIATIVE
- YVETTE WHARTON - University of Auckland
- SALMAN FARIS - Open Source Hardware Association
- LAURA ARMSTRONG - University of Auckland
- KATELYNN MILORA - NIH
- REBECCA BLACK - NIH
Participation in the codeathon is free and you only need access to your own computer and a reliable internet connection. Contributors from the United States and abroad are eligible.
Please feel free to contact the FAIR Codeathon team if you have questions or need more information: fair-codeathon-support@sparc.science.
