BOSC 2016 Schedule

The full program including abstracts will be available soon.

Pre-BOSC: Codefest 2016

See Codefest 2016 for details.

BOSC Day 1 (Friday, July 8, 2016)

Time	Title	Speaker [Poster] / Chair
7:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Introduction and Welcome	Nomi Harris and Peter Cock (Co-Chairs, BOSC 2016)
9:15-10:15	Keynote: The open-source outbreak: can data prevent the next pandemic?	Jennifer Gardy
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:30	Session: Workflows	Chair: TBA
TIME	GenomeSpace: Open source interoperability platform with crowd-sourced analysis recipes	Ted Liefeld
TIME	This is Why We Can Have Nice Things: Getting to 1.0 of the Common Workflow Language	Michael R. Crusoe
TIME	CWL in Practice: Experiences, challenges, and results from adopting Common Workflow Language	Dan Leehr
TIME	Using the Common Workflow Language (CWL) to run portable workflows with Arvados and Toil	Peter Amstutz
TIME	Planemo – A Scientific Workflow SDK	John Chilton
TIME	Sample Size Does Matter: Scaling Up Analysis in Galaxy with Metagenomics	Daniel Blankenberg
TIME	NextflowWorkbench: Reproducible and Reusable Workflows for Beginners and Experts	Fabien Campagne
TIME	Promoting platform interoperability with portable bcbio workflows	Brad Chapman
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Poster Session and Birds of a Feather sessions (overlapping with lunch)
14:00-15:30	Session: Standards and Interoperability	Chair:
TIME	Enhancements to MISO: An open-source community-driven LIMS	Andre Masella
TIME	Biothings APIs: high-performance bioentity-centric web services	Chunlei Wu
TIME	The Noctua Modeling Tool	Seth Carbon
TIME	Processing phenotype data using Phenopackets-API and PXFTools	Chris Mungall
TIME	The EDAM Ontology	Jon Ison
TIME	Towards traceable, scriptable, and efficient data distribution for next-generation genomics	Hilmar Lapp
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Panel: Growing and sustaining open source communities	Moderator: Mónica Muñoz-Torres Panelists: John Chilton, Bastian Greshake, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Jamie Whitacre, Natasha Wood
17:00-17:10	Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Update (or do Sat. morning?)
17:10-17:15	Announcements	Nomi Harris
17:15-18:30	BOFs: Feel free to organize one!
19:00-	Pay-your-own-way BOSC dinner (TBA)

BOSC Day 2 (Saturday, July 9, 2016)

Time	Title	Speaker or Session Chair
9:00-9:05	Announcements	Peter Cock and Nomi Harris
9:05-9:15	Codefest 2016 Report	Brad Chapman (Codefest Organizer)
9:15-10:15	Keynote: Open source, open access, and open data: why science moves faster in an open world	Steven Salzberg
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:30	Session: Data Science
TIME	Mango: Data Exploration on Large Genomic Datasets	Alyssa Morrow
TIME	ADAM Enables Distributed Analyses Across Large Scale Genomic Datasets	Frank Nothaft
TIME	SUPERSMART - A Self-Updating platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages, and Relationships of Taxa	Hannes Hettling
TIME	Characterization of the small RNA transcriptome using the bcbio-nextgen python framework	Lorena Pantano Rubino
TIME	MetaR: simple, high-level languages for data analysis with the R ecosystem	Fabien Campagne
TIME	Development of NGSEP as an open-source comprehensive solution for analysis of high throughput sequencing data	Jorge Duitama
TIME	GRNmap and GRNsight: open source software for dynamical systems modeling and visualization of medium-scale gene regulatory networks	Kam D. Dahlquist
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Poster Session and BOFs (overlapping with lunch)
14:00-14:40	Session: Developer tools and libraries	Chair: Chris Fields
TIME	Biopython Project Update 2016	Christian Brueffer
TIME	Sequenceserver: a modern graphical user interface for custom BLAST databases	Anurag Priyam
TIME	Linuxbrew and Homebrew-Science to Navigate the Software Dependency Labyrinth	Shaun Jackman
TIME	SnoVault and encodeD: A novel object-based storage system and applications to ENCODE metadata	Benjamin Hitz
14:40-15:30	Session: Open Science and Reproducibility	Chair:
TIME	State of the openSNP.org Union: Dockerizing, Crowdfunding & Opening for Contributors	Bastian Greshake
TIME	The GenePattern Notebook Environment	Michael Reich
TIME	Reproducibility in computationally intensive workflows with continuous analysis	Brett K Beaulieu-Jones
TIME	ReportMD: Writing complex scientific reports in R	Peter Humburg
TIME	Reproducible Research in the Cloud with the Refinery Platform	Nils Gehlenborg
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Session: Late-Breaking Lightning Talks
16:00-16:05
16:06-16:11
16:12-16:17
16:18-16:23
16:24-16:29
16:30-16:35
16:35-16:40	Questions for lightning talk presenters
16:40-16:50	Concluding remarks	Nomi Harris and Peter Cock
17:00-18:30	BOFs: Feel free to organize one!
19:00	Pay-your-own-way dinner (TBA)

Posters

If a poster presenter also is giving a talk, the poster link will be above. The table below lists poster-only presentations.

Poster	Title	Presenter
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BOSC 2016 Organizing Committee

Nomi Harris and Peter Cock (Co-Chairs)

Brad Chapman, Chris Fields, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar Lapp, Mónica Muñoz-Torres, Heather Wiencko

BOSC 2016 Program Committee

Nomi Harris, Michael Heuer, Karen Cranston, Gianluca Della Vedova, George Githinji, Christopher Fields, Hilmar Lapp, Scott Markel, Frank Nothaft, Lorena Pantano, Michael Reich, Morgan Taschuk, Heather Wiencko, Kai Blin, Spencer Bliven, Brad Chapman, Michael Crusoe, Bastian Greshake, Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Herve Menager, Fiona Nielsen, Konstantin Okonechnikov, João Rodrigues, Eric Talevich, Jason Williams, Melissa Wilson Sayres, Peter Cock, Björn Grüning, Karsten Hokamp, Amye Kenall, John Chilton, Konrad Förstner, Jens Lichtenberg, Monica C Munoz-Torres

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 2017, please email bosc@open-bio.org