One thing I was still missing in BioHackrXiv was a place with an overview of: 1. all biohackathons, 2. all preprints linked to a biohackathon, 3. an RSS feed for new papers of a biohackathon. Of course, there is the BioHackrXiv discover service, but the biohackathon is not a metadata field and I cannot filter based on it. And, of course, there is Scholia, but not all preprints are notable (so far, a good number had CiTO annotation that at least made them somewhat notable). Thus, they are not all listed in this venue page and neither on this overview of collections of preprints linked to BioHackathon Europe meetings.

Additionally, it also does not have an RSS feed, and we should indeed be using RSS more. So, I hacked something up and impressions were positive. Based on Jekyll and the experiences I had with this blog, I modelled individual articles as blog posts and biohackathons as tags. That automatically gave me the RSS feeds:

It’s still very much in progress, but it’s now live at index.biohackrxiv.org:

Extras

Some extra goodies already there include:

The overview of biohackathons looks like this (the tag size follows the number of preprints for that biohackathon):