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• This page will be used for discussion of BOSC 2009 planning.
• Call for SIG proposals at ISMB

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

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

• Currently working on proposal to ISMB, due Wednesday, November 17. See timeline above.
• Get the BOSC organizing committee e-mail set up.

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