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Due to the availability of multiple and large-scale datasets, diverse and complex data analysis tools and pipelines, reproducing computational experiments is becoming more and more challenging [Alsheikh-Ali et al. 2011, Nekrutenko & Taylor, 2012].

ReProVirtuFlow is a research group from GDR MaDICS aiming at providing a state-of-the-art on reproducibility-oriented approaches considering as promising directions (i) scientific workflows (ii) provenance, and (iii) virtualized computing environments (virtual machines and containers). Technical coordinators of data analysis and management facilities (CNRS INSB and IN2P3) as well as experts in computer science form part of the ReProVirtuFlow consortium.

ReproHackathons

As part of our activities, we are organizing reproducibility-oriented hackathons aimed at testing workflow management systems in realistic conditions to reproduce scientific experiments.

Each ReproHackathon will provide to participants :

• access to the IFB Cloud infrastructure,
• use cases based on academic papers: for each use case, an input dataset as well as a data analysis pipeline will be provided . The challenge will consist in reproducing the published results.

Participants are encouraged to form teams and select

• one of the proposed use cases ;
• a workflow management system to implement the data analysis pipeline and try to obtain the expected results.

ReproHackathons Series

• First edition, 1-2 June 2017, IFB-core, Campus CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette
• Second edition, 9-10 July 2018, LBBE-PRABI, Campus LyonTech-la Doua, Lyon
• Third edition, 25-26 November 2019, Montpellier

Steering Committee

• Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Université Paris-Sud, Paris-Saclay, Orsay
• Khalid Belhajjame, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris
• Christophe Blanchet, Institut Français de Bioinformatique, Lyon
• Alban Gaignard, CHU, Nantes
• Konrad Hinsen, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, Orléans
• Frédéric Lemoine, Institut Pasteur, Paris
• Yvan Le Bras, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Concarneau
• Fabien Mareuil, Institut Pasteur, Paris
• Hervé Ménager, Institut Pasteur, Paris
• Christophe Pradal, Cirad, Inria, Montpellier
• Philippe Véber, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Lyon

ReproHackathons are supported by GDR MaDICS, Psay CompBio of Université Paris-Saclay and the French Institute of Bioinformatics.