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BOSC 2017 will be held July 24-25, 2017 in Prague as part of the new combined ISMB/EECB/COSI meeting to be held July 21-25, 2017.

Overview

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community. Since its inception in 2000, BOSC has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics. BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow open source communities while promoting diversity within them.

We also organize a Codefest, a two-day community development session, usually just before or after BOSC. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in open science, biology and programming to meet, discuss and work collaboratively. Everyone is welcome to attend Codefest 2017 (whether or not you attend BOSC).

Please spread the word about BOSC--all are welcome. On Twitter, follow @OBF_BOSC and use hash tag #bosc2017.

Important Dates

• March 1, 2017: Abstract submission portal opens
• April 13, 2017: Deadline for submitting abstracts for full talks (there will be a later deadline for late-breaking lightning talks and posters)
• July 21-25: Combined ISMB/EECB/COSI meeting
• July 24-25, 2017: BOSC 2017, Prague
• July 26-27, 2017: Codefest 2017, Prague (dates and venue TBC)

Session Topics

We welcome submissions relating to all aspects of bioinformatics and open science software, including (but not limited to):

• Open Science and Reproducible Research
• Open Biomedical Data
• Open Publishing
• Growing and Diversifying Open Source Communities
• Standards and Interoperability
• Data Science
• Workflows
• Visualization
• Translational Bioinformatics
• Developer Tools and Libraries
• Bioinformatics Open Source Project Progress Reports

Sponsors

BOSC is organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, a non-profit, volunteer-run group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the biological research community. sors.

We gratefully accept sponsorships from relevant private companies. These sponsorships enable us to offer free registration to some BOSC speakers to help increase diversity at our meeting.

If you would like to be a sponsor of BOSC, please contact us at bosc@open-bio.org.

Organizing Committee

Chair

• Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Members

• Brad Chapman (Biopython developer; Harvard School of Public Health)
• Peter Cock (Biopython developer; James Hutton Institute)
• Christopher Fields (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
• Bastian Greshake (OpenSNP)
• Karsten Hokamp (Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• Hilmar Lapp (Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), Duke University)
• Mónica Muñoz-Torres (Berkeley Bioinformatics Open Source Projects)
• Heather Wiencko (PlusVital)

Previous BOSCs

• BOSC has been held yearly since 2000.
• BOSC 2016 took place July 8-9, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, right before ISMB 2016.
  • Check out the complete schedule with links to slides, posters and videos - mostly on our F1000 Research BOSC Channel, with the videos on the BOSC YouTube.
  • Read the BOSC 2015 Summary Report in PLOS Computational Biology.
• Information about the first 15 BOSC conferences

Contact Us

• Follow BOSC on Twitter: @OBF_BOSC, #bosc2017
• If you'd like to join the mailing list for BOSC-related announcements, including the call for abstracts and deadline reminders, please subscribe to bosc-announce. This list has low traffic, and your address will be kept private.
• If you have questions about the conference, or would like to volunteer to help out, please contact the organizers at bosc@open-bio.org.

ISMB Code of Conduct

In March 2015, ISMB published a Code of Conduct that applies to SIGs (including BOSC) as well as the main ISMB/ECCB meeting.