NIAID-BRCs AI Codeathon 2.0 · September 16–18, 2026 · Argonne National Laboratory
Turning a researcher’s free-form analysis request into a validated, runnable Galaxy workflow — by reusing, adapting, or building one.
Project page: https://niaid-brc-codeathons.github.io/projects/interview-driven-workflows/
This is a draft pitch, not a plan.
What follows is a one-slide proposal from the organizing team. It exists to seed a team, not to constrain one. Scope, methods, target organism, and success criteria are all still open — expect them to change substantially. Turning this into a real plan is the team's first job, and it lands in the project charter due August 28, 2026.
Convert a researcher’s free-form analysis request into a validated, runnable Galaxy workflow — either by reusing, adapting, or building one.
Build an MCP-native interview agent that first searches the IWC registry to decide use / adapt / build, grounds analysis choices in BRC Analytics data and tools, and resolves missing information through follow-up questions. Use Galaxy Foundry to translate intent into validated workflow steps.
Demonstrate both creation of a new workflow and conversational adaptation of an existing published workflow.
Workflow validation and Planemo test success; correctness of tool/version/parameter selection; regression testing for adapted workflows; and expert scoring of analysis choice, provenance, and clarification quality.
A longer write-up is available at https://gist.github.com/dannon/ceb8685f9c958f5a20ad6e4b0eb630ca.
- Dave Rogers
- Marius van den Beek
Team assignments are still being finalized. Participants can review their project, and request a reassignment, in the participant spreadsheet circulated by the organizing team.
This repository is the team's working space for the codeathon — code, notebooks, data pointers, and notes. Replace this README with the real thing once the charter is written. Team members get access through the NIAID-BRC-Codeathons organization; accept the invitation if you have not already.