Datathon 2022: Argentina and Uruguay
On October 11-13, 2022, a pilot Datathon was held in Argentina and Uruguay, involving 30 scientists who collectively archived 913 new 16S RNA samples in NCBI's Sequence Read Archives (SRA), creating the largest soil microbiome collection in the region to date. The first Datathon was funded by iDiv’s Flexpool Support fund and ANII’s fund for visiting international professors, and a consortium formed during this event created the sIBTEDs project (2024-2025), supporting the 2023 Latin America-wide Datathon and providing statistical courses for participants working with the collected data.
Event summary: The 2022 Datathon is detailed in our Trends in Microbiology article, and metadata consolidated through this initiative can be downloaded here.
Samples archived and compiled during the 2022 Datathon
Lectures:
- Dr. Roel van Klink: Compiling and analyzing data to study insect biodiversity change
- Dr. Emma Ladouceur: Data collection and reanalysis in ecology—a restoration perspective
- Dr. Shane Blowes: Meta analyses to further ecological theory
- Dr. Carlos Guerra: Cooperación internacional como base de la conservación global de la biodiversidad del suelo
- Dr. Anahita Kazem: biodiversity data and open science
- Dr. Stephanie Jurburg: MiCoDa, una base de datos de microbiotas abierta y reutilizable
