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Challenge Post

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has been used to organize hackathons, online challenges and other software collaborative activities. In person hackathons are free while the online challenges cost $1500/month (plus other optional charges).  

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Synapse

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is both an open source platform and a hosted solution for challenges and collaborative activities created by Sage bionetworks. It has been used for a number of challenges including the DREAM challenge. Synapse allows the sharing of code as well as data. However, the code typically is in R, Python and similar languages. Synapse also has a nice programmatic interface and methods to upload/download data, submit results, create annotations and provenance through R, Python, command line and Java. These options can be configured for the different challenges. Content in Synapse is referenced by unique Synapse IDs. The three basic types of Synapse objects include projects, folders and files. These can be accessed through the web interface or through programmatic APIs. Experience and support for running image analysis code within Synapse is limited.

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