Planning:

Event From To Where
Hackathon and partenerships presentation 01/24/2025 - 6 pm 01/24/2025 - 7 pm TBD
Hackathon - Submission are opened !
Permanaces with ML experts are held.		 01/24/2025 - 7 pm 01/26/2025 - 3 pm PC TDB
Watson plateform presentation 01/25/2025 - 9:30 am 01/25/2025 - 10:30 am TBD
First judging session - shortlist selection 01/26/2025 - 3 pm 01/26/2025 - 4:30 pm TBD
Shortlist 10-min presentations 01/26/2025 - 4:30 pm 01/26/2025 - 5:30 pm TBD
Final judging session 01/26/2025 - 5:30 pm 01/26/2025 - 6:00 pm TBD
Winners announced 01/26/2025 - 6:00 pm 01/26/2025 - 6:30 pm TBD

 

Eligibility:

Students selected by the 'Binet IA'

 

Project and Submission Requirements

Each submission must include:

  • Predictions for test data set 1 in csv format
  • Predictions for test data set 2 in csv format
  • Code from which submissions originate (jupyter / python / bash)
  • Description of the method used (any format)

 

Prizes

  • First place: 1000€ total gift cards (250€ / team member)
  • Second place: 400€ total gift cards (100€ / team member)
  • Third place: 200€ total gift cards (50€ / team member)

 

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

  • (60%) Prediction performances on tasks 1, 2 and 3 (20% each)
  • (20%) Quality and Novelty of the approach (statitical & chem-info point of view)
  • (20%) Code clarity and reproducibility

 

Participants are to use:

  • All or some of provided data in any way they see fit.
  • Any programming language.
  • Any publicly available non-commercial software packages
  • Any statistical modeling approach (ML/ not ML)

 

Participants are not to use:

  • Any hERG inhibition data outside of the dataset provided by the organizers as-is.

  • Any publicly available models explicitly pre-trained on hERG toxicity data in any manner.

  • Any descriptors or features explicitly pre-fit on the hERG data.