BOSC 2022
BOSC 2022 was held July 13-14, 2022, as part of the hybrid ISMB 2022 (in person in Madison, Wisconsin, USA and online).
A joint BOSC/Bio-Ontologies session included keynote speaker Melissa Haendel. Jason Williams‘s talk was a joint BOSC/Education COSI keynote. The program closed with a panel about Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities.
BOSC 2022 summaries:
BOSC 2023 will be part of ISMB/ECCB 2023 (Lyon, France / online).
Key Dates
- April 21, 2022: Abstract submission deadline
- May 19: Late poster submission deadline
- June 10: Deadline for presenters to register for ISMB 2022
- July 13-14, 2022: BOSC 2022, part of ISMB 2022 (July 10-14)
- July 15-16: CollaborationFest (CoFest) 2022, hybrid
Topics
BOSC covers all aspects of open source bioinformatics software and open science, including (but not limited to) these topics:
- Open Science and Reproducible Research
- Open Biomedical Data
- Citizen/Participatory Science
- Standards and Interoperability
- Data Science
- Workflows
- Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics
- Developer Tools and Libraries
- Inclusion, Outreach and Training
- Open Ontologies and Tools (joint session with Bio-Ontologies)
Sponsors
Sponsorships from companies and organizations help to defray some of our costs and enable us to offer registration fee waivers for some presenters. Below are the sponsors from 2022. Thanks to their generous support, we were able to grant free registration to 19 participants at BOSC 2022, offer honoraria to keynote speakers, and cover other expenses.
If you’re interested in sponsoring BOSC, please see our sponsors page!
BOSC 2022 Platinum Sponsors
BOSC 2022 Gold Sponsors
BOSC 2022 Silver Sponsors
Previous year’s sponsors are listed on the BOSC 2021 Sponsors page.
Overview
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has been held annually since 2000. BOSC 2021, which was part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 online, took place July 29-30, 2021. The BOSC 2021 talks and posters are listed here, and videos of all the talks are on our YouTube channel.
BOSC is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community.
Since its inception in 2000, BOSC has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics. BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow open source communities while promoting diversity within them.
BOSC is usually preceded or followed by what we now call CollaborationFest (CoFest for short), a two-day community development session. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in open science, biology and programming to meet, talk and work collaboratively. All are welcome to attend CoFest, whether or not you attend BOSC!
Registration
To participate in BOSC 2022, you will need to register for ISMB 2022. If the registration fee is a barrier, those who submit abstracts can request a fee waiver on the submission form, and we will provide other ways for those who aren’t submitting abstracts to request fee assistance.
BOSC 2022 Organizing Committee
Chair: Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin)
- Jason Williams (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Nicole Vasilevsky (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)
- Hervé Ménager (Institut Pasteur)
- Monica Munoz-Torres (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)
- Deepak Unni (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
- Peter Cock (ex officio, representing the OBF)
BOSC 2022 Review Committee
Melissa Black*, Scott Cain*, Seth Carbon, J. Harry Caufield*, Tyrone Chen, Christopher Fields*, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras*, Karsten Hokamp, Aziz Khan*, Hilmar Lapp, Lara Mangravite, Hande McGinty, Hervé Ménager, Steffen Möller, Monica Munoz-Torres, Kieran O’Neill, Tazro Ohta, Konstantin Okonechnikov, Caralyn Reisle, Surya Saha*, Ian Simpson, Stian Soiland-Reyes, David Twesigomwe, Deepak Unni*, Jason Williams
* = also reviewed Late Poster abstracts
Previous BOSCs
BOSC has been held yearly since 2000. BOSC 2021, which was part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 online, took place July 29-30, 2021. The BOSC 2021 talks and posters are listed here, and the talk videos are on our YouTube channel.
BCC2020, the Bioinformatics Community Conference, brought together the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) and BOSC 2020 in a joint online meeting. Participants from 62 countries joined us for sessions scheduled twice a day to accommodate both hemispheres.
BOSC 2019 was part of ISMB/ECCB 2019 in Basel, Switzerland. See the full BOSC 2019 schedule.
Code of Conduct
As part of ISMB 2022, BOSC 2022 will be covered by the ISMB/ECCB Code of Conduct.