Educators:
Timo Sachsenberg, Kyowon Jeong, Sam Wein (CIBI)

Date:
24-26 March 2026

Location:
Online

Contents:
The OpenMS developer conference brings bioinformaticians working in computational mass spectrometry together to shape the future development of OpenMS. It is targeted to core developers, new developers, and potential future contributors. Short talks, developer tutorials, and code sprints will be intertwined. Participants will have the opportunity to design custom tools and workflows together with instructors. External users are welcome to bring their own ideas and will receive detailed feedback as well as help getting started in OpenMS development.

Prerequisites:
Target audience: This developer conference is targeted to core, new, and potential future developers of the OpenMS library and its tools.

Learning goals:

Developing algorithms and tools with the OpenMS library and pyOpenMS
Working with OpenMS, its build system, and its data structures
Deeper insights into new and established algorithms of the library
Learning the GitHub workflow of OpenMS
Keywords:
LC-MS-based proteomics and metabolomics, OpenMS, C++, algorithms for mass spectrometry, software engineering/design

Tools:
OpenMS, git, cmake, C++ gcc/clang toolchain

Audience:
This developer conference is targeted to core, new, and potential future developers of the OpenMS library and its tools.