BOSC 2015 Schedule

You will be able to download the full program with abstracts; however, this wiki page is considered the definitive schedule and will be updated with any last minute changes.

Sponsors

We thank the open access journal GigaScience, Curoverse (the team behind the open source platform Arvados), and Google for their generous support for videorecording the talks at BOSC 2015.

Pre-BOSC: Codefest 2015

See Codefest 2015 for details.

BOSC Day 1 (Friday, 10 July, 2015)

Time	Title	Speaker / Chair
7:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Introduction and Welcome	Nomi Harris and Peter Cock (Co-Chairs, BOSC 2015)
9:15-10:15	Keynote: Bioinformatics: Still a scary world for biologists	Holly Bik
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:30	Session: Data Science	Chair:
10:45- 11:02	Apollo: Scalable & collaborative curation for improved comparative genomics	Mónica Muñoz-Torres
11:02-11:19	GOexpress: A R/Bioconductor package for the identification and visualisation of robust gene ontology signatures through supervised clustering of gene expression data	Kévin Rue-Albrecht
11:19-11:36	Arvados: A Free Software Platform for Big Data Science	Peter Amstutz
11:36-11:53	Bringing Hadoop into Bioinformatics with Cloudgene and CloudMan	Sebastian Schoenherr
11:53-12:10	Segway: semi-automated genome annotation	Michael Hoffman
12:10-12:15	QualiMap 2.0: quality control of high throughput sequencing data	Konstantin Okonechnikov
12:15-12:20	A Genomics Virtual Laboratory	Andrew Lonie
12:20-12:25	BioSolr: Building better search for bioinformatics	Tony Burdett
12:25-12:30	Prioritization of structural variants based on known biological information	Brad Chapman
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Poster Session and Birds of a Feather (overlapping with lunch)
14:00-15:30	Session: Standards and Interoperability	Chair:
14:00-14:17	Portable workflow and tool descriptions with the CWL	Michael R. Crusoe
14:17-14:34	From peer-reviewed to peer-reproduced: a role for research objects in scholarly publishing in the life sciences	Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran
14:34-14:51	Demystifying the Interoperability of Disparate Genomic Resources	Daniel Blankenberg
14:51-15:08	Increasing the utility of Galaxy workflows	John Chilton
15:10-15:15	Kipper: A software package for sequence database versioning for Galaxy bioinformatics servers	Damion Dooley
15:15-15:20	Evolution of the Galaxy tool ecosystem - happier developers, happier users	Martin Čech
15:20-15:25	Bionode - Modular and universal bioinformatics	Bruno Vieira
15:25-15:30	The EDAM Ontology	Hervé Ménager
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Panel: Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community	Moderator: Mónica Muñoz-Torres Panelists: Holly Bik, Michael Crusoe, Aleksandra Pawlik, Jason Williams
17:00-17:10	Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Update	Hilmar Lapp (President, OBF)
17:10-17:15	Announcements	Nomi Harris
17:15-18:30	BOF/Unconference: Building successful open-source bioinformatics developer communities (Part 1)	Aidan Budd, Dave Clements, Manuel Corpas, Natasha Wood
17:15-18:30	BOFs
19:00-	Pay-your-own-way BOSC dinner, Kennedy’s [link]	RSVP at BOSC 2015 dinner (limited space --you must RSVP to attend)

BOSC Day 2 (Saturday, 11 July, 2015)

Time	Title	Speaker / Chair
9:00-9:05	Announcements	Peter Cock and Nomi Harris
9:05-9:15	Codefest 2015 Report	Brad Chapman (Codefest 2015 Organizer)
9:15-10:15	Keynote: Big Data in Biology	Ewan Birney
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:30	Session: Open Science and Reproducibility	Chair:
10:45-11:02	A curriculum for teaching Reproducible Computational Science bootcamps	Hilmar Lapp
11:02-11:19	Research shared: www.researchobject.org	Norman Morrison
11:19-11:36	Nextflow: a tool for deploying reproducible computational pipelines	Paolo Di Tommaso
11:36-11:53	Free beer today: how iPlant + Agave + Docker are changing our assumptions about reproducible science	John Fonner
11:55	The 500 builds of 300 applications in the HeLmod repository will at least get you started on a full suite of scientific applications	Aaron Kitzmiller
12:00	Bioboxes: Standardised bioinformatics tools using Docker containers.	Peter Belmann
12:05	The perfect fit for reproducible interactive research: Galaxy, Docker, IPython	Björn Grüning
12:10	COPO: Bridging the Gap from Data to Publication in Plant Science	Robert Davey
12:15	ELIXIR UK building on Data and Software Carpentry to address the challenges in computational training for life scientists	Aleksandra Pawlik
12:20	Parallel recipes: towards a common coordination language for scientific workflow management systems	Yves Vandriessche
12:25	openSNP - personal genomics and the public domain	Bastian Greshake
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Poster Session and BOFs (overlapping with lunch)
14:00-14:40	Session: Translational Bioinformatics	Chair: Brad Chapman
14:00-14:17	CIViC: Crowdsourcing the Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer	Malachi Griffith
14:17-14:34	From Fastq To Drug Recommendation - Automated Cancer Report Generation using OncoRep & Omics Pipe	Tobias Meissner
14:35-14:40	Cancer Informatics Collaboration and Computation: Two Initiatives of the U.S. National Cancer Institute	Ishwar Chandramouliswaran
14:40-15:30	Session: Bioinformatics Open Source Project Updates	Chair:
14:40-14:57	Biopython Project Update 2015	João Rodrigues
14:57-15:14	The biogems community: Challenges in distributed software development in bioinformatics	George Githinji
15:14-15:31	Apache Taverna: Sustaining research software at the Apache Software Foundation	Stian Soiland-Reyes
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:30	Session: Visualization	Chair:
16:00-16:17	Simple, Shareable, Online RNA Secondary Structure Diagrams	Stefan Hammer
16:17-16:22	BioJS 2.0: an open source standard for biological visualization	Guy Yachdav
16:22-16:27	Visualising Open PHACTS linked data with widgets	Ian Dunlop
16:30-17:00	Session: Late-Breaking Lightning Talks
16:30	Biospectra-by-sequencing genetic analysis platform	Aurelie Laugraud
16:35
16:40
16:45
16:50
16:55
17:00-17:10	Concluding Remarks	Nomi Harris and Peter Cock
17:15-18:30	BOF/Unconference: Building successful open-source bioinformatics developer communities (Part 2)	Aidan Budd, Dave Clements, Manuel Corpas, Natasha Wood
17:10-18:10	BOFs

Posters

TBA

BOSC 2015 Organizing Committee

Nomi Harris and Peter Cock (Co-Chairs)

Brad Chapman, Rob Davey, Chris Fields, Sarah Hird, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar Lapp, Mónica Muñoz-Torres

BOSC 2015 Program Committee

Nomi Harris, Brad Chapman, Peter Cock, Karsten Hokamp, Raoul Bonnal, Chris Fields, Karen Cranston, Jens Lichtenberg, Eric Talevich, Frank Nothaft, Michael Heuer, Mónica Muñoz-Torres, Francesco Strozzi, Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Timothy Booth, Tiago Antão, George Githinji, Manuel Corpas, Thomas Down, Sarah Hird, Scott Markel, Rob Davey, Spencer Bliven, Michael Reich, Lorena Pantano, Björn Grüning, Hilmar Lapp, Daniel Blankenberg, Amye Kenall, Hervé Menager

BOSC is a community effort—we thank all those who made it possible, including the organizing committee, the program committee, the session chairs, our sponsors, and the ISMB SIG chair, Steven Leard.

If you are interested in helping to organize BOSC 2016, please email email bosc@open-bio.org