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The 7th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC'2006) will take place in Fortaleza, Brazil, as one of several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology.

Important Dates

Aug 4-5, 2006 BOSC 2006

BOSC Eventful Group : This site provides an ICAL feed which will include all deadlines associated with BOSC 2006

March 15, 2006 - Registration Opens
June 5, 2006 - BOSC Abstracts for Full Talks Due
June 19, 2006 - Notification of Abstracts Acceptance
June 26, 2006 - Early Registration Discount Cut-off date
August 3, 2006 - Conference Registration Opens Onsite
August 4-5, 2006 - BOSC Conference

Keynote Speakers

Amos Baroch of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Agenda

Call for Speakers and Abstracts

The BOSC organizing committee is currently seeking abstracts for talks at BOSC 2006. BOSC is a great opportunity for you to tell the community about your use, development, or philosophy of open source software development in bioinformatics. The committee will select several submitted abstracts for 25-minute talks. Accepted abstracts will be published on the BOSC web site.

If you are interested in speaking at BOSC 2006,

please send us before June 5th, 2006:

* an abstract (no more than a few paragraphs)
* a URL for the project page, if applicable
* information about the open source license used for your software or 
  your release plans.

Abstracts will be accepted for submission until June 5th, 2006. Abstracts chosen for presentation will be announced June 19th, 2006 (before the ISMB Early Registration Deadline).

Call for Lightning Talks and Demos

Call for Birds of a Feather Meeting Ideas

Call for Volunteers

Program committee

Chair, Darin London, Duke University