Recent and upcoming events
- April, 2026: CAMI III Hackathon at ZB MED in Cologne, Germany
- October 28-31, 2025: CAMI III Hackathon at ZB MED in Cologne, Germany
- July 23-24, 2025: CAMI Portal presentation by Fernando Meyer and CAMI community exchange by Alice McHardy in the MICROBIOME track of ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool, UK
- March 27, 2025: Alice McHardy talked about CAMI: community-driven benchmarking challenges for microbiome research at Ascona 2025 in Ascona, Switzerland
- July 13, 2024: Alice McHardy talked about CAMI: Updates and Future Benchmarking Challenges in the MICROBIOME track of ISMB 2024 in Montreal, Canada
Schedule for the 3rd round of CAMI Challenges
TBA
Schedule for the 2nd round of CAMI Challenges
CAMI II Challenge key dates
| Summer 2018 | New toy datasets released (high replicate numbers, multiple sequencing technologies): Human Microbiome Project and Mouse Gut Toy Datasets |
| January 16th, 2019 | Opening date for the 2nd CAMI Challenge |
| May 17th, 2019 | CAMI II assembly challenge closes |
| May 18th, 2019 | CAMI II gold standard assemblies provided |
| June 3rd, 2019 | CAMI II clinical pathogen detection challenge starts |
| October 25th, 2019 | CAMI II challenge closes |
CAMI II Challenge part b
| February 14th, 2020 | Rhizosphere challenge dataset provided |
| September 29th, 2020 | Rhizosphere assembly challenge closes |
| September 30th, 2020 | Assemblies provided |
| January 31st, 2021 | CAMI II Challenge part b closes (taxonomic profiling, taxonomic and genome binning) |
Further past events
- July 15, 2020: CAMI Session within the MICROBIOME track at ISMB 2020 Virtual Conference
- May 19th, 2020: MicrobiomeSupport/CAMI online workshop session: Developing joint protocols for the bioinformatics analysis of microbiome data
- March 12-13, 2020: Evaluation workshop for the 2nd round of CAMI challenges, Braunschweig, Germany
- July 21-25, 2019: CAMI Session within the MICROBIOME track at ISMB/ECCB 2019 in Basel, Switzerland
- July 6-10, 2018: CAMI Session within the MICROBIOME track of ISMB 2018 in Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
- Special Session on CAMI at ISMB 2017 in Prague, Czech Republik
- May 7th-8th, 2017: CAMI + M3 workshop at the University of Maryland, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
- May 3th-5th , 2017: 2nd CAMI hackathon at the University of Maryland, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
- May 10th-13th, 2016: CAMI evaluation workshop at the Isaak Newton Institute in Cambridge, U.K.
- March 27th, 2015: 1st CAMI "Challenge Part I" opens - Read data sets posted for assembly and read based profiling/binning
- May 20th, 2015 6:00 am CEST: Deadline for 1st CAMI "Challenge Part I", Assemblies
- May 20th, 2015: 1st CAMI "Challenge Part II" opens - Gold standard assemblies posted for contig-based binning
- May 27th-28th, 2015: 1st Evaluation Meeting, Berlin, Germany
- July 18th, 2015 6:00 am UTC: Deadline for 1st CAMI "Challenge Part II", profiling and read-/contig-based binning
- Autumn 2015: Result presentation
- December 2014: Example test data sets with gold standards made available to familiarize with the up- and download site. Go take a look!
- November 18th-21st, 2014: Second implementation hackathon in DĂĽsseldorf, Germany
- September 15th-22nd, 2014: First implementation hackathon at the Isaak Newton Institute in Cambridge, U.K.
- Public discussion: Roundtable at ISME15 conference, August 25th, 2014, Seoul, South Korea
- Initial preparation: May-August 2014
- First CAMI meeting at http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/MTG