The 2025 SPARC FAIR Codeathon
2025 Codeathon Key Dates:
- May 8 - Project pitch & Team leader sign-up opens
- 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
Project pitch is now open. Submit your project pitch
Project ideas:
Develop a tool to help researchers and curators create, visualize, and validate relationships between different modalities within or across datasets — e.g., mapping a histology image to the exact electrophysiology trace that matches a stimulus condition.
Create a packaging tool to select datasets to export along with a standalone desktop or web app that allows users to download, browse, and interact with SPARC datasets offline, with human- and machine-readable metadata.
Enable dataset contributors to track the adoption and use of their data for better visibility and reporting — potentially offering features like citation/download alerts and version impact analysis.
Develop connectivity visualization/interaction tools (e.g., using Cytoscape widgets in Jupyter; D3 in JavaScript) against datasets or SCKAN. Potential projects may include:
Connectivity matrix visualizations
Dendrograms
Organ coverage
Species contribution
Connectivity paths
Export of visualizations for documentation/presentations
Exploration of neuron populations
Develop a Simple Protocols.io widget that provides a quick overview of the protocol and can be integrated with the portal.
Design of interactive tools to improve user-friendliness and customization of the oSPARC platform.
Expand oSPARC's multi-physics capabilities through custom plugins and open-source libraries.
Turn your code/model into a module for the oSPARC platform by using the cookiecutter-osparc-service library.
Create an interactive chatbot to explore SCKAN and Flatmap.
Trace the fascicles of a nerve to map the fascicle network.
Develop tools to extend Map-Viewer capability with local/anonymous annotations on Flatmaps and 3D Scaffolds. For example, listing user-created annotations or mapping corresponding annotations between Flatmaps and the 3D whole-body scaffold.
Watch for announcements on the SPARC Linkedin Page to join a diverse team working on exciting projects using SPARC data and/or tools and resources in novel ways. These include enhancing, demonstrating, and measuring the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and re-use (FAIRness) of digital assets.
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.
