This is a hackathon for developers interested in contributing to the advancement of Apollo and JBrowse. During the 3 days of the Hackathon you will be able to develop cool, new features that are both of special interest to you, and/or have been submitted by other colleagues.

Participants should:

• be able to set up your own Apollo server before arriving to La Jolla; including Postgres, Tomcat, etc.
• code comfortably in JavaScript (client) and Java (server).

What will we do while we are there?: The plan is still brewing, but we have a few ideas:

• Interactive tracks for visualization of aggregated variant data, including background population statistics, which will enable researchers to annotate the impact of variants including associations with human disease phenotypes.
• Exploration of synergies with the myvariant.info tool: a BD2K-supported software tool for aggregating annotations on human genetic variants from a variety of databases (ClinVar, exac, dbsnp, dbnsfp, etc.)
• Visualization of protein modification data overlaid on gene models. Using data available from http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archive/ to understand the impact of variants on these sites.
• Creating a plugin to design CRISPR experiments.
• Your ideas go here! - Please send your suggestions for feature development, your questions, and any additional comments to the Apollo Developers email list (see Hackathon URL below).

Lunches, snacks, and prizes will be inlcuded.

For details regarding how to arrive and where to stay, please visit the Hackathon page at http://genomearchitect.org/apollo-hackathon-2016

Photographs on the event image: DNA from Shutterstock.com. Bee by Alexander Wild at www.AlexanderWild.com