Tag: BOSC
Early Poster Acceptance Round 2024
February 18, 2024 :
Abstract submission for BOSC 2024 is now open! Since some people can’t get conference travel approval from their institution until […]
Community comment period open for potential BOSC 2024 keynotes
January 19, 2024 :
We asked our community to nominate potential BOSC keynote speakers, and we were pleased with the great suggestions! In the […]
Nominate a keynote speaker for BOSC!
January 10, 2024 :
We are seeking a diverse list of potential BOSC keynote speakers. We invite you, our community, to nominate people you […]
BOSC CollaborationFest 2023 Report
September 29, 2023 :
BOSC CoFest 2023 was organized in Lyon, as a satellite event of BOSC. CoFest is a free hackathon-style event, where participants gather in small groups to exchange ideas and work together on bioinformatics projects including but not limited to hacking.
Spotlight on diversity: Jenea Adams
July 10, 2023 :
Diversity, inclusion and accessibility (also known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DEI) are a major part of BOSC’s mission and […]
ISCBacademy webinar on Patient-Led Research
March 7, 2023 :
Hannah Wei, co-founder and technologist at the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, will speak at a webinar on March 14 at 15:00 UTC on “Re-Thinking the Patient’s Role in a Learning Health System.”
Comment period on potential BOSC 2023 keynote speakers is now open
February 10, 2023 :
We asked the community to nominate potential BOSC keynote speakers, and we were pleased with all the great suggestions! Now […]
Crowdsourced highlights from BOSC 2022
August 16, 2022 :
Going home after attending BOSC was a little bittersweet. It’s my favorite conference because it brings together such a welcoming […]
BOSC and Bio-Ontologies: Even better together!
March 2, 2022 :
We are excited to announce that BOSC and Bio-Ontologies will join forces for part of a day at ISMB 2022. […]
BOSC 2021 will be part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 (online)
February 12, 2021 :
BOSC is returning to ISMB in 2021, after a successful partnership with Galaxy for the first Bioinformatics Community Conference last […]
Getting introduced to Bioinformatics and Open Science through BCC 2020
August 19, 2020 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
BCC2020 pre-conference open house
July 8, 2020 :
After much discussion, the BCC2020 organizing committee has decided to hold the meeting on Remo.co, which is similar to Zoom […]
Help us make BCC2020 a rewarding online experience!
May 22, 2020 :
We’re old hands at organizing in-person BOSCs (some of us were involved in planning the very first BOSC, in 2000), […]
BCC2020 (inc. BOSC 2020) abstracts due this week
May 3, 2020 :
We look forward to receiving lots of abstracts by the end of this week from people interested in presenting at […]
BOSC 2020 will be online
March 24, 2020 :
The 2020 Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020), which brings together the BOSC and Galaxy communities, will take place online–more info here. […]
Computational biology without borders
October 15, 2019 :
In this post, OBF Travel Fellowship awardee Aziz Khan discusses the importance of open source software and tools for scientific discovery in the current data-intensive century. He also shares his experiences at ISMB/ECCB and BOSC 2019 in Basel.
BOSC late-round abstract submission closes May 15!
May 9, 2019 :
If you’d like the opportunity to present your work at BOSC 2019 (which will take place in Basel, Switzerland, on […]
The color of bioinformatics: what is it and how can it be modified?
August 29, 2018 :
This is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend […]