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.