Announcing BOSC 2025; seeking keynote speaker nominations
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: https://www.open-bio.org/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
Since 2000, BOSC has provided a forum for sharing ideas and results in open-source bioinformatics and open science. Our annual two-day program includes keynote talks, talks chosen from submitted abstracts, posters, a panel discussion, and more!
Exciting news for 2025:
BOSC 2025 will include a joint session with the newly renamed Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation COSI!
Plus, our popular collaborative work event (CollaborationFest, or CoFest) will be held as part of ISMB, with participation open to all. Don’t miss this great opportunity to connect with fellow researchers, contribute to groundbreaking projects, and shape the future of bioinformatics!
Nominate a keynote speaker!
We would like to assemble a diverse list of potential BOSC 2025 keynote speakers (see our open selection process and rubric). We invite the community to nominate keynote speakers using this form by January 16. After that, we will share our list and solicit comments from the community prior to finalizing the speakers.
Submit an abstract! (But not yet!)
Abstract submission will open around the end of January. We encourage you to submit abstracts (due April 17 – no extensions) on any topic relevant to open-source bioinformatics or open science. Some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, or posters.
BOSC topics include (but are not limited to):
- Open Science and Reproducible Research
- Open Biomedical Data
- Citizen/Participatory Science
- Standards and Interoperability
- Data Science
- Workflows
- Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics
- Open Science
- Developer Tools and Libraries
- Inclusion, Outreach, and Training
- AI/ML: open approaches
Registration fee assistance is available (more info on that soon).
We hope to see you (in person or virtually) at BOSC 2025!