Welcome
Join us in person for the May 2025 nf-core hackathon in Boston!
This hackathon will be held as part of the Nextflow Summit 2025 in Boston, USA and is organised jointly.
- Summit website: https://summit.nextflow.io/2025/boston/
- Dates: 13th - 14th May 2025
- Registration: Visit the summit registration page
- Location: Aloft Boston

Projects
We’ll work in projects during the hackathon. Projects can be anything from:
- Adding new features to existing pipelines
- Adding and improving components (modules / subworkflows)
- Improving the website and nf-core tooling
- Creating entirely new pipelines
- Discussion and planning community initiatives
- Working on special interest group topics
- …anything else
You can bring your own favourite topic or choose from a list of open issues in the community. Each project has a lead person who can point you in the right direction.
You don’t need to commit to a single project and are free to move around groups and projects throughout the event.
Submit a new project
If you have an idea for a project that you think would be fun to do during the hackathon,
please add it to the website by submitting a pull-request to the nf-core/website
repository.
You need to add a new markdown file to the
sites/main-site/src/content/hackathon-projects/hackathon-boston-2025
directory.
See existing files for examples, if you’re unsure about anything please ask in Slack or in the pull-request. The front-matter YAML at the top of the file should be filled in as follows:
title
: Short and self-descriptive name for the projectcategory
: One ofpipelines
,components
,tooling
slack
: If your project already has an obvious Slack channel (eg. a pipeline) then right click it and Copy link and fill in here. Otherwise, create a hackathon-specific channel for your project with the pattern#hack-may-2025-<project-name>
.image
: A meme, silly picture or any other image to make your project more memorable. Add to thesites/main-site/src/assets/images/events/2025/hackathon-may
directory as part of your PR.image_alt
: Text description of your image.leaders
: One or more contact people for your project (array)- Each key under
leaders
: Your GitHub usernamename
: Your nameslack
: Link to your Slack user. Find this by right clicking your name in Slack and selecting Copy link
- Each key under
The body text can provide any context and background.
Projects should have at least one goal mentioned in the body text under a ## Goal
heading that you want to
try to achieve by the end of the hackathon.
Join a project
Joining a project is as simple as turning up and sitting down at the table of the project you’re interested in.
You can move freely between projects throughout the event.