The Scientific Programme Committee of the Conference on Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA) have collaborated on the first ever multi-city study on forensic metagenomics. CAMDA focuses on one of the grand challenges of our time, which is the harnessing of Big Data in the biological sciences.
Researchers worldwide are invited annually to compare their best work on these data, taking on the CAMDA Challenge, with prizes awarded to the winning contributions by vote of all delegates in an open-ended contest.