Bosc

Hello from Berlin, where the pre-BOSC informal CodeFest 2013 meeting is already underway. We’re looking forward to seeing even more of you on Friday and Saturday for BOSC 2013. BOSC 2013 will be the 14th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, and is organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF). It is held as a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting in conjunction with the ISMB conference, which itself is held jointly with the ECCB meeting every second year. [Read More]

Call for Abstracts for the 13th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2012), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2012. Dates: July 13-14, 2012 Location: Long Beach, California Web site: /wiki/BOSC_2012 Email: bosc@open-bio.org BOSC announcements mailing list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce Important Dates: April 13, 2012: Deadline for submitting abstracts May 7, 2012: Notification of accepted talk abstracts emailed to authors July 11-12, 2012: Codefest 2012 programming session July 13-14, 2012: BOSC 2012 July 15-17, 2012: ISMB 2012 The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is sponsored by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development within the biological research community. [Read More]

Call for Abstracts for the 12th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference ( BOSC 2011), an ISMB 2011 Special Interest Group (SIG). Dates: July 15-16, 2011 Location: Vienna, Austria Web site: /wiki/BOSC_2011 Email: bosc@open-bio.org BOSC announcements mailing list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce Important Dates: April 18, 2011: Deadline for submitting abstracts to BOSC 2011 May 9, 2011: Notifications of accepted abstracts emailed to corresponding authors July 13-14, 2011: Codefest 2011 programming session July 15-16, 2011: BOSC 2011 July 17-19, 2011: ISMB 2011 The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is sponsored by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development within the biological research community. [Read More]

Just a friendly reminder that abstracts for BOSC 2010 are due next Thursday, April 15. See the BOSC web site at /wiki/BOSC_2010 for details. Submissions will only be accepted electronically at http://events.open-bio.org/BOSC2010/openconf.php. Graduate students, don’t forget we are offering $250 student travel awards this year. Be sure to check the box indicating that you are a graduate student to be considered for the award. We are also pleased to announce that Guy Coates, Group leader of the Informatics Systems Group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and Ross Gardler, Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, will be giving keynote presentations at BOSC. [Read More]

**Abstract submissions for the 11th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2010) are now open.**At-a-glance BOSC is an ISMB 2010 Special Interest Group (SIG) Date: July 9-10, 2010 Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA BOSC 2010 web site: /wiki/BOSC_2010 Abstract submission via Open Conference System site: http://events.open-bio.org/BOSC2010/openconf.php E-mail: bosc@open-bio.org Bosc-announce list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce Important Dates April 15: Abstract deadline May 5: Notification of accepted abstracts May 28: Early Registration Discount Cut-off date July 8-9: Codefest 2010 July 9-10: BOSC 2010 August 15: Manuscript deadline for BOSC 2010 Proceedings published in BMC Bioinformatics [Read More]

The BOSC 2010 organizing committee is hard at work getting prepared for this July’s meeting in Boston: /wiki/BOSC_2010 One of the items we’ve traditionally had at the conference is a project update from each of the OpenBio affiliated groups. This year, we’re thinking about organizing these talks around a central theme: the OpenBio solution challenge. We start with a biological question of general interest, and each of the project talks would focus around how you would solve that problem using your toolkit and programming language. [Read More]

BOSC 2010 is currently in the planning stages. It will be held for 2 days in conjunction with the 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The dates of BOSC 2010 are July 9-10; the main ISMB Conference runs July 11-13, 2010. The BOSC 2010 web site can be accessed here: /wiki/BOSC_2010. The BOSC organizing committee is soliciting input on the planning of BOSC 2010 so that we can make it a successful and productive conference for the O|B|F community. [Read More]