Research Article
PHINDaccess Hackathons for COVID-19 and Host-Pathogen Interaction: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Table 2
Overview of the obstacles faced and problem-solving methods used during the hackathon.
| Hackathon challenges | Communication challenges | Difficulty of setting up meetings between team members on a regular basis because of the COVID-19 pandemic and confinement. |
| Hackathon challenges | Technical challenges | Poor quality of the internet connection due to both limited bandwidth and an unstable connection | Difficulty to download OMICS raw data from a public biorepository. | Lack of intensive computation resources available at the time of the hackathon. |
| Troubleshooting | Organizing regular online meetings through communication platforms. | To overcome the downloading issue, some teams ultimately opted to retrieve dummy data. |
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