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Revision as of 02:28, 20 November 2008
- This page will be used for discussion of BOSC 2009 planning.
- Call for SIG proposals at ISMB
Contents
Important Dates
NOTE: Dates in BOLD are determined by ISMB. Dates in italics are "penciled" in for planning purposes.
- Monday, November 10: Chair posts SIG proposal to Google Site for comment by organizing committee.
- Monday, November 17: SIG proposal comment period closes so proposal can be finalized.
- Wednesday, November 19, 2008: SIG proposals due to ISMB; Proposal uploaded to ISMB as of 3:06PM PST — Kdahlquist 23:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
- Friday, December 12, 2008: Instance of OCS set up and tested (or Easy Chair)
- Wednesday, December 17, 2008: Notification of provisional acceptance of SIG proposal from ISMB
- Thursday, December 18, 2008: Call for BOSC abstracts begins
- February 16, 2009: Registration Opens
- Wednesday, March 4, 2009: Preliminary program due to ISMB
- Thursday, April 2, 2009: Preliminary program posted online at ISMB web site
- Monday, April 13: Abstract deadline
- April 13-27, 2009: Review period
- April 28-30, 2009: Resolution of disagreements, decisions made
- May 1, 2009: Notification of accepted abstracts
- Thursday, May 7, 2009: Final program due to ISMB
- May 15, 2009: Early Registration Discount Cut-off date
- Monday, June 1, 2009: Handout materials (CD and/or printed) due to ISMB
- Deadline for revised papers (for proceedings if we have one)
- Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26, 2009: BOSC
- June 27 to July 2, 2009: ISMB main meeting
NOTE: If we decide to publish a proceedings, we will need to add deadlines for the revision of papers and delivery to the journal either pre- or post-conference.
Organizing Committee
- We seek volunteers to help with the organization of BOSC 2009. If you wish to join the BOSC 2009 Organizing Committee, please send an e-mail to bosc@open-bio.org.
- If you wish to be on the mailing list for BOSC-related announcements, including the call for abstracts and deadline reminders, please subscribe to the Bosc-announce list.
Chair
- Kam D. Dahlquist (Loyola Marymount University)
- Oversight of entire conference
Co-Chair
- Lonnie R. Welch (Ohio University)
- Special interest in organizing the sessions on design patterns, regulatory genomics, and grand challenges in the Post-Genomics Era; coordinator of overlapping session with the Post-Genomics SIG.
Members and Roles
- Hilmar Lapp (BioPerl, BioSQL, and NESCent)
- Jens Lichtenberg (Ohio University)
- Publications: will be responsible for collecting, organizing, and formatting abstracts, making program (PDF for hard copy), and posting to the BOSC 2009 web site
- Frank Drews (Ohio University)
- Interest in mulitcore and gpgpu computing
- Laura Elnitski (NIH)
- Observer from Post-ENCODE/Post-Genomics SIG, overlapping session
Offers to help
- Jim Procter has offered to help organize a BOF/hackathon on Visualization pending what happens with the BioViz SIG. Kam has replied that she and he will touch bases in the next couple of weeks on this.
- Andrew Dalke has offered to help with the organizing committee. Kam will touch bases with him as well.
- These two people have not yet been added to the BOSC organizing committee e-mail list or GoogleDocs.
Program
Keynote speakers
- Aim for between 2 and 4, at least one each morning
Session Topics
- Bio* Updates
- Open Source Software
- Design Patterns in Bioinformatics
- Grand Challenges in the Post-ENCODE Era (overlapping session with Post-ENCODE/Post-Genomics SIG)
- Regulatory Genomics/Computational Genomics (and hackathon)
- Multicore and GPGPU computing
- Tutorials
- Lightning Talks
- Birds of a Feather
Tasks & Action Items
Logistics & Planning
- Next critical action item is to decide on whether to use OCS or EasyChair so we can get that set up before the call for abstracts goes out.
- Kam has an action item to work with Jens on comparing EasyChair and OCS. She will get to this in the next couple of weeks.
Publicity Ideas
- Update/create E-mail lists
- Participant lists from previous BOSC conferences
- O|B|F projects
- O|B|F members
- bioinformatics programs
- Advertising exchange with PLoS
- Poster