Boston Computational Biology Hackathon with Anthropic, Modal, and Flagship Pioneering
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