Talk:BOSC 2009

• This page is being used for discussion of BOSC 2009 planning. Please see the BOSC 2009 Main Page for the official information.

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)
• Tuesday, December 16, 2008: SIG proposal has been accepted by ISMB — Kdahlquist 22:51, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
• Friday, January 16, 2009: SIG summary due to ISMB coordinators, Instance of OCS set up and tested (or Easy Chair), 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)
• Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28, 2009: BOSC
• June 29 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.

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
• Andrew Dalke (Dalke Scientific, Goteborg, Sweden)
• Jim Procter (University of Dundee, Scotland)
  • Interest in a BOF/hackathon on Visualization
• Anton Nekrutenko (Penn State University)
  • Overlap with Data Management & Analysis SIG
• Seán I. O' Donoghue
  • Interest in Visualization

Offers to Help

• Richard Holland

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-Genomic Era
• Regulatory Genomics/Computational Genomics (and hackathon)
• Multicore and GPGPU computing
• Visualization
• Computational Grids
• Data Management & Analysis: Overlapping session with DAM SIG
• Tutorials
• Lightning Talks
• Birds of a Feather

Tasks & Action Items

Logistics & Planning

• Next critical action item is to decide on whether to use OCS or EasyChair so we can get that set up before the call for abstracts goes out.
  • Kam has sent Jens info on OCS. They will decide on which system to use and then work on implementing it.
• Draft of Call for Abstracts has been posted on GoogleDocs BOSC 2009 Planning document.

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