ClawBio + Nebius Hackathon Berlin: Agentic AI for Genomics
One day. Real genomic data. You build agents that do actual scientific work, and demo what they found at five.
AI agents can now plan multi-step work, call tools, run analyses and recover from failure. Biology is where that gets hard, because it demands reproducibility, provenance, and knowing when to abstain.
ClawBio is the open infrastructure for that. Agents work through explicit, versioned, auditable skills, so what an agent did can be inspected, reproduced and challenged.
You will put an open-weight model in charge of 94 genomics skills and point it at real public data.
💬 Join the hackathon Slack
Everything runs through Slack: environment setup, your Nebius credits, team formation, and help on the day. Join now rather than at 11:30 on Tuesday.
#berlin-teams post what you want to build and find people to build it with. #berlin-help anything you are stuck on, before or during. #berlin-general joining details and setup. #berlin-demos your repo on the day.
Setup materials go out there 24 hours before the event.
🧬 Three challenges. Pick one.
1. End the diagnostic odyssey
Five openly consented family genomes, hundreds of candidate variants. Produce a ranked shortlist with the evidence visible, then be honest about the variants you were not entitled to rank.
2. A cancer target you would defend
Pick a tumour type in TCGA and shortlist targets. Make the case against each one as visible as the case for it. Show us a target your agent killed.
3. Whose genome does this fail?
Take a published polygenic risk score, apply it across ancestries, and find where it stops meaning anything. Then build the agent that declines to report it.
Or bring your own question and we will scope it with you on the day.
A model that confidently invents an answer is worse than one that says it does not know. You are building for the second behaviour.
⚡ What you get
🔑 Nebius Token Factory credits, with 29 open-weight models behind one API
🖥️ A pre-configured environment, so nobody loses the morning to setup
🛠️ Nebius engineers in the room when something breaks
📊 Every skill ships with demo data, so you are running real analyses within minutes
🥪 Lunch
🏆 Prizes
Nebius credits to keep building after the day.
🥇 1st $1,500 AI Cloud + $500 Token Factory
🥈 2nd $1,000 AI Cloud + $250 Token Factory
🥉 3rd $500 AI Cloud + $100 Token Factory
Winners are chosen by the room. Everyone votes for their three favourite demos.
👥 Who should come
Bioinformaticians, computational biologists, genomics researchers, software engineers and ML practitioners who want to build agents that do real scientific work.
No prior ClawBio experience needed, and no prior experience with AI coding agents: about a third of the room will have none. You should be comfortable reading and running code.
Teams of four to five, formed on the day. You do not need to arrive with one.
🕒 The day
11:30 Doors open. Get set up on Nebius
12:00 Welcome, then genomics in an agentic world
12:20 Introduction to Nebius products
12:35 Building ClawBio skills on Nebius, a primer
13:05 Challenges announced, teams form
13:20 Build
17:00 Demos, and everyone votes
18:00 Close
Come at 11:30 if you can. We start at 12:00 sharp, and the earlier you are set up the more you build.
📍 Practical
📅 Tuesday 18 August 2026, doors 11:30, programme 12:00 to 18:00
📍 Impact Hub Berlin, Rollbergstrasse 28a, 12053 Berlin. The Loop
💻 Free to attend. Bring a laptop
💬 Slack: join here
🔗 Open source: ClawBio/ClawBio
📚 Challenge briefs and setup: docs.clawbio.ai/hackathon/berlin