[This article was first published on tidyomicsBlog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Join us in TurkuThe Tidyomics community is organising a hackathon during the pre-conference programme of EuroBioC2026 in Turku, Finland. The hackathon will take place on June 1-2, 2026, ahead of the main EuroBioC2026 conference on June 3-5, 2026.This is a community event for people who build, use, teach, document, or are curious about tidy interfaces for omics data analysis in R. Whether you are a regular contributor or new to Tidyomics, the hackathon is a chance to meet collaborators, turn ideas into concrete issues, and make progress on packages, tutorials, and documentation together.Grab your Tidyomics stickers during the conference! Thanks to Bea Campillo Minano for printing them.Tidyomics stickers for hackathon participantsWhat we will work onThe hackathon will focus on practical, community-led work across the Tidyomics ecosystem. Possible projects include:fixing bugs and closing issues across Tidyomics packagesimplementing new features and workflow improvementsimproving documentation, tutorials, and vignettesdeveloping examples that make tidy omics workflows easier to learn and reuseThe Tidyomics open challenges board will be the main source of ideas for the hackathon. Before the event, please browse the board and identify problems or projects you would like to work on.How to participatePlease start from the Tidyomics Hackathon Turku 2026 GitHub repository. The repository includes event details, preparation steps, and space for participants to open or discuss hackathon issues.Before the event:Browse the Tidyomics open challenges.Select a problem you are interested in.Open an issue in the hackathon repository, or comment/react if an issue already exists.Join the community discussion in the EuroBioC2026 Turku hackathon Zulip channel.Groups and projects will be finalised during the first day, based on open issues, participant interest, and available expertise.CommunicationThe official discussion space for the hackathon is the EuroBioC2026 Turku hackathon channel on the Bioconductor Zulip server. The virtual meeting room link will also be shared through that channel and by email.If you are attending EuroBioC2026 online, note that the conference provides free live streaming for remote participants.EuroBioC2026 Turku conference stickerPeopleThe hackathon was proposed by Nicholas Cooley.The organising committee is:Juan HenaoStevie PedersonMichael LoveNicholas CooleySee you thereEuroBioC2026 is an opportunity to bring the Bioconductor and Tidyomics communities together around shared tools, shared challenges, and shared documentation. We hope to see you in Turku, on Zulip, and in the hackathon repository.© 2025 tidyomics. Content is published under Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 License for the text and BSD 3-Clause License for any code. | R-Bloggers To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: tidyomicsBlog.R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.Continue reading: EuroBioC2026 Tidyomics Hackathon