Following the success of our global sprint last July we wanted to take look at how we could bring the idea of code sprinting on open research projects to a more localized setting. So … last weekend, March 07-08 2015, Mozilla Science Lab hosted the first Toronto Open Science Code Sprint at the Mozilla offices in Toronto. It was an opportunity for like-minded members of the local open data and research community to come together with developers, designers and other open science enthusiasts to collaborate on tools to help further science on the web. Four open research projects from our Collaborate initiative were featured at the event – Cytoscape.js, Matplotdash, Pathogens & Disease Immunity, WormBase.

It was an amazing two days …

Here are highlights from the incredible weekend of collaboration.

• A prototype for generating a Bokeh.js plot of supercomputer data using a static dataset. The first step in developing the foundation for Matplotdash – Chris Ing (Matplotdash) and Adrian She.

• A visualization of bacteria-phage interactions captured in the CRISPR locus – Madeleine Bonsma (Pathogens & Disease Immunity) and Natchar Ratanasirigulchai

• An extension for Firefox that allows you to visualize your browser history in graph form using active tabs from your current browsing session – Max Franz (Cytoscape.js) and Andrei Papaz.

• Exploration of data visualization tools for WormBase-Mobile using Cytoscape.js through collaboration between Sibyl G (Wormbase), Max Franz and Andrei Papaz.

Many thanks to all our project leads and participants.

If you’d like to get involved in an open science project check out our Collaborate page here to see if there’s a project you’re interested in or if you’d like to organize your own local code sprint event please get in touch at sciencelab@mozillafoundation.org – we’d be happy to talk to you.