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The 15th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014) will be held in Boston on July 11-12, right before ISMB 2014.

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New this year: students who are the first authors of abstracts that are accepted for talks receive FREE admission to BOSC!

Important Dates

• April 4, 2014: Deadline for submitting abstracts
• July 9-10, 2014: Codefest 2014, Boston, MA
• July 11-12, 2014: BOSC 2014, Boston, MA
• July 12-16, 2014: ISMB 2014, Boston, MA

Overview

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two-day Special Interest Group of ISMB. It is sponsored by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development within the biological research community.

Open Source software has flourished in the bioinformatics community for well over a decade. When the first BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) was held in 2000, there were already a number of popular open source bioinformatics packages, and the number and range of these projects has increased dramatically since then. covers the wide range of open source bioinformatics software being developed, and encompasses the growing movement of Open Science, with its focus on transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance. We welcome submissions relating to all aspects of bioinformatics and open science software, including new computational methods, reusable software components, visualization, interoperability, and other approaches that help to advance research in the biomolecular sciences. Two full days of talks, posters, panel discussions, and informal discussion groups will enable BOSC attendees to interact with other developers and share ideas and code, as well as learning about some of the latest developments in the field of open source bioinformatics.

Please spread the word about BOSC--all are welcome. On Twitter, follow @OBF_BOSC and use hash tag #bosc2014.

Sponsors

BOSC is sponsored 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.

We thank Eagle Genomics for sponsoring the BOSC Student Travel Awards again this year, and welcome the open access journal GigaScience as a new sponsor for BOSC 2014.

Session Topics

• Open Science and Reproducible Research -- covers the theory and practice of open science, including open notebook science, open data, transparent and reproducible workflows, and shared standards for reviewing and publishing research papers.
• Software Interoperability -- includes Open Source approaches to integrating the latest bioinformatics tools, exploring how we can increase tool connectivity and help communities work better together.
• Genome-scale Data and Beyond -- encompasses software and other tools designed for managing, exploring, and analyzing large-scale data to address research questions, such as genome assembly, variant prediction, eQTL analysis, phylogenomics, and epigenetics.
• Visualization -- focuses on approaches for interactive as well as static visual representations of biomedical data, ranging from exploration to explanation.
• Translational Bioinformatics -- explores applications of biological and medical informatics to the development of personalized healthcare, therapies, and a better understanding of human health and disease. Topics include the analysis of large scale population and family sequencing data, bioinformatics methodologies for clinical research, and tools for discovering clinically useful associations in human databases.
• Bioinformatics Open Source Project Updates -- features short talks from ongoing projects describing their recent progress. Abstracts will be solicited from open source projects affiliated with the O|B|F (see http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Projects), including the Bio* projects, DAS, BioMOBY, EMBOSS, and GMOD, but any other open-source project will be equally eligible to submit abstracts for this session.
• Panel: Reproducibility: Rewards and Challenges

Keynote Speakers

This year's keynote speakers will be C. Titus Brown (Michigan State University) and Philip Bourne (NIH).

More information about BOSC 2014 Keynote Speakers

Submitting Abstracts

The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday, April 4, 2014. Click here for information on submitting your abstract for a talk or poster

Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

• Peter Cock (Biopython developer; James Hutton Institute)
• Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Members

• Raoul Jean Pierre Bonnal (Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare (National Institute of Molecular Genetics), Italy)
• Brad Chapman (Biopython developer; Harvard School of Public Health)
• Robert Davey (The Genome Analysis Centre)
• Christopher Fields (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
• Hans-Rudolf Hotz (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
• Hilmar Lapp (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)

Ex Officio (Members of the O|B|F Board)

• Chris Dagdigian
• Jason Stajich

Previous BOSCs

• BOSC has been held yearly since 2000.
• BOSC 2013 took place in Berlin, Germany, in July 2013. See Harris et al. (2013) The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2013. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e83v1
• Information about the first 14 BOSC conferences

Contact Us

• Follow BOSC on Twitter: @OBF_BOSC, #bosc2014
• If you'd like to join the mailing list for BOSC-related announcements, including the call for abstracts and deadline reminders, please subscribe to the Bosc-announce list. 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.