MorphoBank Connects

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MorphoBank is hosting its second annual virtual conference! You’re invited to MorphoBank Connects, a FREE virtual conference on September 17 and 18, 2026. This event will highlight innovative ways to leverage MorphoBank, an open‑access repository and collaborative workspace for morphological character matrices, to advance Open Science and FAIR data practices. Activities include a curation workshop, data mining hackathon, user community forum, project support office hours, and invited and submitted presentations.

Registration

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Theme & Scope
We invite presentations that demonstrate how MorphoBank can serve as a central database, collaborative workspace, and secure repository to drive forward Open Science and FAIR data principles. Submissions might include:

• Novel Research Applications: Case studies that leverage morphological character matrices in MorphoBank for evolutionary analyses, ecological modeling, or biodiversity assessments.

• Advanced Workflows & Tools: Descriptions of pipelines or scripts that integrate MorphoBank data with other platforms (e.g., R, Python, GIS) to automate curation, visualization, or statistical analyses.

• Non‑Traditional Uses: Innovative uses of MorphoBank beyond classical character scoring—such as geometric morphometrics, histological image annotations, 3D model integration, or outreach‑focused teaching modules.

• Community Engagement & FAIR Best Practices: Reports on collaborative MorphoBank projects, community‑driven hackathons, metadata standardization efforts, or strategies for enhancing data reusability and reproducibility.

Whether you’re developing new tools, presenting a novel dataset, or demonstrating creative uses of morphological data, your work will help showcase the breadth of possibilities that MorphoBank enables for researchers, educators, and the broader scientific community.

If you have any questions about the submission process, please reach out to conference@morphobank.org.