BOSC

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference is held annually (as a satellite of ISMB) to promote and facilitate open source development of bioinformatics tools. The aims of the conferences are to:

1. Provide developers with a forum for displaying the results of their development efforts to the wider research community;
2. Provide a focused environment for developers and users to interact and share ideas about software development, and practical techniques in bioinformatics;
3. Inform the Research Community of important developments occurring within the Open Source Bioinformatics Developer community.

BOSC meetings to date:

• BOSC 2013 Berlin, Germany -- the upcoming Upcoming BOSC conference.
• BOSC 2012 Long Beach, CA, USA
• BOSC 2011 Vienna, Austria
• BOSC 2010 Boston, MA USA
• BOSC 2009 Stockholm, Sweden
• BOSC 2008 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• BOSC 2007 Vienna, Austria
• BOSC 2006 Fortaleza, Brasil
• BOSC 2005 Detroit, MI USA
• BOSC 2004 Glasgow, UK
• BOSC 2003 Brisbane, Australia
• BOSC 2002 Edmonton, Canada
• BOSC 2001 Copenhagen, Denmark
• BOSC 2000 San Diego, CA USA

In recent years the BOSC meetings have been preceded by a two day Codefest, an informal developer meeting.

Other conferences

• A BioPerl workshop was held in conjunction with ISMB'99 in Heidelberg, Germany.