Fig 1.
The organization comprises administrative and 5 committees, which include Customer Service, Question Bank, Financial, Legal, and Social Media. Additional information can be located in Box 1.
Fig 2.
An overview of each phase’s execution and the evaluation criteria for cutoff and selection. The figure also includes the platforms used to develop the competition and the time allowed for each phase. Additional information is shown in S1 Text and Box 2.
Fig 3.
Demographics and knowledge information of participants of the LBB 2nd Edition.
(A) Distribution of participants in the Brazilian states. The graph shows the count of participants from each Brazilian state who reported residing during the LBB 2nd Edition. (B) Self-reporter gender. We observed a higher percentage of men registered in the LBB 2nd Edition. (C) Self-reported education levels. The x-axis represents the highest level of education achieved or ongoing studies for each participant. (D) Fields of study during undergraduate studies. Each participant was asked to provide their area of study during their bachelor’s degree. (E) Bioinformatics level of knowledge. (F) Programming level. For (E) and (F), we have the distribution of self-reported knowledge for all participants in the context of bioinformatics and programming level, respectively. (G) Prior knowledge in Bioinformatics. We gathered information about participants’ prior knowledge in various bioinformatics areas, revealing genomics as the most commonly selected omics field. (H) Programming language used by the participants. Besides collecting information about programming level, we also identified the most used languages by the LBB 2nd Edition participants, observing a majority of Python users. All data used to prepare this figure are in Tables A-H in S1 Data.