TEAM FORMATION

We encourage the formation of teams ahead of the event, and will begin to kick off the pre-registration around 6 weeks prior to the event. People can also work individually At past events, many teams are also formed on the opening night. Please use the slack channels to help find a team to join, in addition to meeting people in person.

DATA ACCESS

After being invited to participate, all participants will need to create a Synapse account to access the data. Sage will set up a Synapse project to track teams, who is registered, who is not registered, grant data access to any restricted datasets.

  1. Create a Synapse.org account.

  2. Navigate to: Synapse.org/nf2019

COMPUTATIONAL POWER

Google has provided $150,000 in cloud credits for our Research Series. Thanks GOOG. To access the data for this case, you must have a Google Cloud account associated with the email address you signed up with. Create a Google Cloud Account.

CODE REPOSITORY

We’ll get everyone setup on SVAI’s Github repo for Neurofibromatosis at the start of the event.

EVENT COMMUNICATIONS

Once you are confirmed for this event, we will add you to the following Slack Channels:

  1. #data-access

  2. #knowledge-support

  3. #genomics-tools

  4. #ml-tools