Snakemake Hackathon CERN 2025
From March 10 to 14, 2025, the Snakemake Hackathon took place at the prestigious European Particle Physics Laboratory CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). Our 3 ATLAS PhD students Matthias, Johannes and Luis from the Bioinformatic Departmenet at TRON did not miss this great opportunity.
Together with the other participants, they worked intensively on improvements and new features for Snakemake. Snakemake is an open-source workflow manager that is becoming increasingly popular in bioinformatics, physics and many other fields and is also being used more and more at TRON. It enables the efficient and reproducible linking of different programs - both locally, on powerful servers and in the cloud.
Some of the bug fixes and suggestions for improvement proposed by our students were integrated directly into the Snakemake code - a great success of which they can be justifiably proud.
A special highlight was the guided tour through the antimatter factory at CERN and the inspiring exchange with researchers from different disciplines.
A big thank you to Johannes Köster and the whole team for the fantastic organization!