Tomorrow, SWAT4HCLS 2026 will start, again in Amsterdam. The first SWAT4LS I attended was also in Amsterdam, and the second meeting in Amsterdam I was also there. And I was in Cambridge (see this post), Antwerp (no post), and at least to one of the two Leiden meetings (also no posts, it seems).

I am looking forward to meet old friends, new friends (some whom I never met in person), and recent collaborators (that I never met in person). For those who will not be in Amsterdam, you can follow the meeting on social media with the hashtag #swat4hcls. And there is also this BioHackrXiv Fediwall, for those in the fediverse.

Scholia demo

I will give a demo to update people on the work in the Scholia project with Daniel Mietchen, Peter Patel-Schneider, Konrad Linden, Johannes Kalmbach, Lars Willighagen, Wolfgang Fahl, and Hannah Bast (also keynote in Amsterdam) to update the SPARQL queries we use to visualize data in Wikidata to SPARQL 1.1 so that it can run on Qlever. The abstract can be found in Wikimedia Commons.

This was the outcome of many years figuring how to ensure Scholia could remain working. The Wikidata RDF graph split has given us many headaches, so many that just before christmas it became it could be possible to survive the split, I was so happy, I realize I want to share this news. So, we teamed up and wrote this demonstration contribution abstract. Thanks to everyone who made this happen! Just to be clear, we are not done yet. The system is not running outside the Wikimedia Foundation platforms.

One of the reviewer comments requested a Scholia page for the meeting. It has not been updated for the accepted speakers, but you can look at pages for past meetings to get an idea what you will find.

SWAT4HCLS Biohackathon 2026

There will also be a biohackathon again, of course, with the option for BioHackRxiv reports. There are already several pitches, including one that I submitted about Scholia.