Bio- and chemoinformaticians from the IPB participated in this year's #EUvsVirus-Hackathon as a team of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Bioactive Compounds and Biotechnology".
Their goal was to optimize the Cloud Information & Resource Management System CRIMSy that they developed before. This software allows secure access control of research data in early project phases across partner institutes of the research alliance that would otherwise remain inaccessible for the protection of intellectual property.
As part of the hackathon, the software has been extended. Assay data can now also be handled with CRIMSy. With the improved knowledge transfer, the team aims to contribute to the discovery of active substances against COVID-19.
The hackathon #EUvsVirus was initiated by the European Commission to find solutions in the fight against COVID-19. The competition took place in April with over 20,000 participants from all over Europe.
