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Boston Computational Biology Hackathon Hosted by Anthropic, Modal, and Flagship Pioneering Spend a day building computational biology tools and workflows with the Anthropic, Modal, and Flagship Pioneering teams. The challenge: Build a tool for running computational biology workflows in the cloud with Modal x Claude Science: autoresearch, molecular design, data scraping and processing, or any computationally heavy workload you want to automate with agents. Inspiration: Build beyond the bench: start from a user in the life sciences you can name – a scientist, a clinic, a biotech – and use Claude Science to create the tool they're missing. Protein function: Run large protein language models, structure prediction, and large-scale homology/domain searches to characterize unknown proteins.Input: Protein sequence (FASTA). Output: Predicted function, domains, homologs, structural insights, and confidence scores. Drug discovery: Integrate large multimodal datasets and run large-scale target scoring, virtual screening, or model inference across many genes and compounds.Input: Disease, phenotype, or gene set. Output: Ranked targets or drug candidates with scores and supporting evidence. Imaging & phenotyping: Process high-content microscopy datasets with segmentation, image embeddings, phenotype discovery, and large-scale inference across millions of cells or images.Input: Microscopy images. Output: Detected phenotypes, cell/image embeddings, segmentation results, and QC metrics. Biology knowledge graph: Build and analyze large biological graphs using entity embeddings, multi-hop graph search, graph algorithms, link prediction, and LLM-based reasoning over large numbers of relationships.Input: Gene, protein, disease, drug, or biological question. Output: Predicted relationships, ranked hypotheses, relevant graph paths, and supporting evidence. What you'll get: Modal and Claude credits to fuel your build Direct access to the teams behind Modal, Claude Science, and Flagship Pi

We are excited to have our next networking event at Naco Taco in Cambridge! 🌮🍹 This evening is all about bringing together biotech innovators in a fun and relaxed setting. Expect engaging conversations that spark new ideas, opportunities to build lasting connections, and plenty of chances to share insights on the latest biotech trends. It is also a great space to brainstorm collaborations and explore opportunities that can help take your career to the next level. Whether you are hoping to meet a future collaborator or cofounder, discover new career opportunities, or simply expand your professional network, this event is the place to do it. You can look forward to inspiring conversations, exciting new connections, and great vibes with food, drinks, and community. 🧬✨ Join us for a lively biotech networking night at Naco Taco. We cannot wait to see you there! 🌟

One day. Real genomic questions. Build agents that do useful scientific work, then show the room what they found. AI agents can plan multi-step work, call tools, run analyses and recover from failure. Biology is where that gets hard: results must be reproducible, evidence must be traceable, and an agent must know when it cannot support a claim. ClawBio is open-source infrastructure for that work. Its versioned skills make an agent's methods inspectable, reproducible and open to challenge. Boston is modelled on the latest ClawBio hackathon in Berlin, with the format improved using what we learned there: setup before arrival, one clear help route, faster team formation and more protected build time. Everything runs through Slack The ClawBio Slack community is where we work before, during and after the event. Register for the event to receive access for setup, introductions, team formation, help, demos and follow-up. The join link is not posted publicly. #boston-general: introductions, announcements, timetable and resources #boston-help: the single route for setup, access, data, tool and testing problems #boston-teams: ideas, team formation, challenge selection and working links #boston-demos: demos, evidence, limitations and what happens next Registered participants will receive a short technical preflight through Slack. Complete it before arrival so that the day can be spent building. What you will build Choose a published challenge brief or bring a biological question that we can scope with you. Challenge directions include: End the diagnostic odyssey Build a cancer target you would defend Ask whose genome a method fails on Bring your own question Your team will build an agent that can do useful scientific work, expose its evidence and state what it cannot claim. A GitHub contribution is welcome when it fits the project, but the day is about useful work and learning, not chasing a pull request count. What you get A full day focused on one real scientific problem A t

Code + Counsel’s Legal AI Community Hackathon: Building Common Ground is a free, three-hour public-interest design sprint exploring how AI and legal knowledge can help address everyday challenges facing underserved communities. Participants from legal, technology, product, design, public service, and community backgrounds will work in teams of four to five to develop practical concepts, workflows, or prototypes focused on issues such as housing, employment, consumer protection, public benefits, and access to essential services. No coding experience is required, and individuals may register without a team. The event includes brunch networking, team formation, guided build time, project presentations, and recognition for standout ideas. Ages 18+ to participate but children are welcome & encouraged to attend if a parent is participating; advance registration required.

Some of the most interesting ideas in healthcare are emerging at the intersection of AI, clinical expertise, research, and technology. We’re bringing together the people who want to turn those ideas into the next generation of healthcare companies. Whether you’re already building a company, exploring an idea or research that could become one, or considering the leap into healthcare entrepreneurship, this evening is for you. Redesign Health is excited to host healthcare founders, researchers, clinicians, engineers, and operators from across the Boston area for an evening in Harvard Square. Who You’ll Meet Founders building AI-native healthcare companies Researchers and clinicians working on problems that could shape the future of care Engineers, product leaders, and operators interested in building in healthcare Aspiring founders exploring ideas and potential paths into entrepreneurship Members of the Redesign Health team Expect candid conversations, new connections, and plenty of coffee and Belgian waffles. Space is limited, and attendance will be confirmed based on availability, so please RSVP early to request a spot. About Redesign Health Redesign Health is a global venture and applied technology firm focused on building next-generation healthcare companies. We manage venture capital and venture buyout strategies, each powered by an AI operating system and team of leading technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors. Our venture capital strategy backs exceptional founders at the earliest stage—often before an idea is fully formed—and provides first institutional capital and an unmatched degree of strategic leverage and domain expertise through exit. Our venture buyout strategy partners with proven management teams through control investments and delivers outsized value by rewiring core products and workflows with AI. Since inception in 2018, Redesign and our portfolio companies have touched the lives of more than 15 million patients, raised over $1.5 billion from