Register Your Event with BioHackrXiv

BioHackrXiv publishes preprints from hackathons, codefests, and similar collaborative coding events in the life sciences. To allow participants to submit reports from your event, you need to register it here first.

What events are eligible?

Your event should be a hands-on, collaborative working meeting such as a hackathon, codefest, sprint, or symposium with coding/hacking components in the biomedical or life sciences domain.

How to register

  1. Open an issue on the bhxiv-index repository with the following information:

    • Event name (e.g., “BioHackathon Europe 2025”)
    • Location (city, country)
    • Start and end dates (YYYY-MM-DD)
    • Event website URL
    • Hashtag / tag code (a short code like BH25EU — if you don’t have one, we will assign one)
    • Event logo or banner image URL (optional)

  2. A BioHackrXiv maintainer will review your request and create the event page.

  3. Once approved, your event will appear on the Meetings page and participants can reference it in their paper submissions.

What happens after registration?

Once your event is listed, the event page will display:

  • Event metadata (location, dates, website)
  • Links to any preprints submitted from your event
  • YAML metadata snippet that paper authors should use in their paper.md

For example, your event page will show authors which values to use for biohackathon_name, biohackathon_url, and biohackathon_location in their paper metadata.

Questions?

Contact us at biohackrxiv@googlegroups.com or open an issue on the bhxiv-index repository.