CollaborationFest 2025 will be a two-day collaborative work event at which participants work together to contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases. Bring your own project ideas or come ready to collaborate with others on their projects! BOSC has held CollaborationFests (aka CoFests) every year before or after ISMB since 2010. This year, we decided to hold the CollaborationFest as part of ISMB/ECCB and open it to all registered ISMB/ECCB participants. [Read More]

We invited our community to nominate potential keynote speakers for BOSC, and we were delighted with the many excellent suggestions received. In the next stage of this process, we’re providing you with an opportunity to express any concerns regarding the suitability of any nominated individuals as BOSC Keynote Speakers. Our invited speaker selection process and criteria include examples of potential reasons for exclusion. If you have concerns about any of the individuals on our list, please share them (with as much detail as you feel comfortable providing) through this anonymous form by Friday, January 24, 2025. [Read More]

We invite you to join us for BOSC 2025, a vibrant gathering at the forefront of open-source bioinformatics and open science! Location: Liverpool, UK, and virtual Dates: July 21-22, 2025 Website: /events/bosc/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14344023/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bosc.bsky.social Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew Key Dates January 16, 2025: Deadline for community nominations of keynote speakers April 17: Deadline for submitting talk/poster abstracts May 13: Talk/poster acceptance notifications May 15: Late poster submission deadline July 20-24: ISMB/ECCB 2025 July 21-22: BOSC 2025 (the first two full days of ISMB/ECCB 2025) July 23-24: ISMB CollaborationFest About BOSC [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Jacqueline Wahura Waweru, a PhD researcher at the University of Cape Town and International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the annual Royal Entomological Society Conference (Ento24). I was privileged to virtually attend the annual Royal Entomological Society conference Ento24 ( Ento24: In-person - Royal Entomological Society), which took place on 10th to 12th September at the University of Liverpool, UK. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Erin (Rin) Krichilsky, a PhD researcher at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the 27th International Congress of Entomology (ICE2024 Kyoto). This year, I had the privilege to co-host the symposium “Bee diversity in East and Southeast Asia: Systematics and Status of the Fauna” at the International Congress of Entomology (ICE) in Kyoto, Japan. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Masturina Binti Md Mansor, a PhD student at the Universiti Putra Malaysia, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Congress 2024. I flew in to Okinawa, Japan, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21st October 2024 for the first ever Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference 2024 (APBJC). [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Tanakamol Mahawan, a PhD student at the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology , University of Liverpool, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Congress 2024. This year’s Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC 2024) in Okinawa was a special milestone for me; it was the first conference I attended since moving back to Thailand from the UK. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Li Chuin Chong, a PhD student at the TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research GmbH & Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend 23rd European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2024). I sincerely offer my gratitude to Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) for the partial support, which allowed me to participate in the 23rd European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2024) in Turku, Finland. [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Jacob González Isa, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge (started October 2024) and formerly an MSc student at the Technical University of Madrid, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the first Congress of the Spanish Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (SEBiBC). [Read More]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Keerthana Padmanabhan, a PhD researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, INDIA, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to attend the Transatlantic Behavioral Neuroscience Summer School 2024 (TBNSS 2024). In September 2024, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Transatlantic Behavioral Neuroscience Summer School 2024 (TBNSS 2024) conducted in Mikolajki, Poland, from September 9th to 20th 2024 by the Nencki Open Lab, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS, Poland. [Read More]