BOSC Update: Ruttenberg, Hanmer confirmed as Keynotes, Early Registration Deadline Friday

 Posted on May 14, 2009  |  kdahlquist

Alan Ruttenberg of Science Commons and Robert Hanmer of the Hillside Group have been confirmed as Keynote Speakers for BOSC 2009. For more information, see the BOSC 2009 web site at /wiki/BOSC_2009. Abstract acceptances went out today–stay tuned for the schedule, which will be posted once the speakers have confirmed their invitations. The early registration deadline for BOSC is Friday, May 15; don’t forget to take advantage of the discounted fee for early registrants at http://www. [Read More]

BOSC 2009 Call for Abstracts

 Posted on February 24, 2009  |  kdahlquist

Please forward as appropriate and forgive multiple postings. Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2009 An ISMB 2009 Special Interest Group (SIG) Date: June 27-28, 2009 Location: Stockholm, Sweden URL: /wiki/BOSC_2009 Abstract submission via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=bosc2009 Important Dates Monday, April 13: Abstract deadline May 1, 2009: Notification of accepted abstracts May 15, 2009: Early Registration Discount Cut-off date June 27-28, 2009: BOSC 2009 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]

BOSC 2009 accepted by ISMB

 Posted on January 7, 2009  |  hilmar

Belated, and probably most of you knew already, but just in case you didn’t, the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) was accepted on Dec 16 as a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting by the respective ISMB 2009 review committee. Special thanks and congratulations to Kam Dahlquist, who agreed again this year to chair the conference, and who pulled the proposal together. You can follow the organization and the conference taking shape at the BOSC 2009 wiki page. [Read More]

Julian Lombardi will present keynote at BOSC 2008

 Posted on May 18, 2008  |  hilmar

The BOSC 2008 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Julian Lombardi will be giving the keynote address this year. Dr. Lombardi is one of the original architects of the open-source, peer-to-peer OpenCroquet platform for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and virtual worlds.

For further information about Dr. Lombardi, see the Wikipedia entry about him, his blog, and the OpenCroquet website.

BOSC 2008 is on

 Posted on February 18, 2008  |  hilmar

Our application to hold BOSC as a two-day SIG (Special Interest Group) meeting in conjunction with ISMB has been accepted for this year. BOSC will take place July 18 and 19 in Toronto, Canada. [Read More]

BOSC 2005

 Posted on January 29, 2005  |  stajich

BOSC 2005 website /bosc/ The 6th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC'2005) is organized by the not-for-profit Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The meeting will take place June 23-24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and is one of several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. see http://www.iscb.org/ismb2005 for more information. Because of the power of many Open Source bioinformatics packages in use by the Research Community today, it is not too presumptuous to say that the work of the Open Source Bioinformatics Community represents the cutting edge of Bioinformatics in general. [Read More]

BOSC'2003 Pictures are online

 Posted on July 2, 2003  |  dag

Our “Bioinformatics Open Source Conference” was held in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with the larger ISMB'2003 meeting. It was quite successful — 96 attendees, wireless internet, BOF rooms and 30+ presentations over 2 days.

Pictures are online here: http://gallery.open-bio.org/