ClawBio Hackathon: Agentic Genomics @ King's
Build AI agents for genomics in one afternoon.
ClawBio comes to King's. Join us at the SGDP Centre (King's College London) for a hands-on hackathon where AI engineers, genomicists, and clinicians team up to build executable bioinformatics skills on the ClawBio platform. No prior genomics or agent experience required, just bring a laptop.
This is the fourth ClawBio hackathon, after Imperial College London (99+ registrants), University of Westminster and Madrid. Last time, participants shipped 12 pull requests to ClawBio in a single afternoon.
What you'll get out of it:
AI engineers ship real, executable bioinformatics tooling and contribute to an open-source platform. Genomicists and clinicians turn domain expertise into reusable agentic skills, with no coding background needed. Everyone walks away with hands-on mentorship, a portfolio-ready project, and new connections across the AI and genomics communities.
Three competitive tracks:
Build a new ClawBio skill: create a single executable bioinformatics capability from scratch. Agentic workflows: chain multiple skills together into an end-to-end pipeline. Equity and access (HEIM): build skills that make genomics analysis fairer and more accessible across diverse populations, using the HEIM (Health Equity in Genomics) framework.
Agenda (12:00 to 17:30 PM):
Schedule
12:00 Welcome Address - Prof Alfredo Iacoangeli
12.15 State of the Art in Agentic AI for Bio Research - Dr Manuel Corpas
12.45 Agentic AI from the Trenches of Dementia Research - Dr Mathieu Bourdenx
13.15 Pizza and refreshments
13.45 Working with AI Agents (Induction) - Cameron Lloyd
14:15 Team Formation in Areas of Research Interest
14.45 Hack Along with your Teammates!
16.30 Show and Tell
17.30 Close
We'll provide mentors, ClawBio platform access, food and refreshments. Just bring a laptop and your curiosity.