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BOSC 2019
From Open Bioinformatics Foundation
BOSC 2019 will take place July 24-25 as part of ISMB/ECCB in Basel.
If you are interested in giving a talk at BOSC 2019, submit your abstract by April 11!
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Important Dates
- March, 2019: Registration for ISMB opens. You can register for just the two days of BOSC (July 24-25) or the whole conference.
- April 11, 2019: Deadline for submitting talk/poster abstracts
- April 15, 2019: Deadline for applying for an OBF Travel Fellowship
- May 9, 2019: Authors notified
- May 15, 2019: Late poster/late-breaking lightning talk submission deadline
- May 23, 2019: Late round authors notified
- July 21-25, 2019: ISMB/ECCB 2019, Basel, Switzerland
- July 24-25, 2019: BOSC 2019, Basel, Switzerland
- July 26-27, 2019: CollaborationFest 2019, location TBD
Session Topics
BOSC covers all aspects of bioinformatics and open science software, including (but not limited to):
- Open Science and Reproducible Research
- Open Biomedical Data
- Citizen/Participatory Science
- Standards and Interoperability
- Data Science
- Workflows
- Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics
- Developer Tools and Libraries
- Inclusion, Outreach and Training
- Bioinformatics Open Source Project Reports (about new or existing projects)
BOSC Organizing Committee
- Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)--Chair
- Peter Cock (Biopython developer; James Hutton Institute)
- Christopher Fields (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
- Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (Open Humans)
- Michael Heuer (UC Berkeley)
- Karsten Hokamp (Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
- Monica Munoz-Torres (Oregon State University)
- Bastian Rieck (ETH Zurich)
- Yo Yehudi (University of Cambridge)
- Heather Wiencko (Hosted Graphite, Dublin Ireland)--Co-Chair
Previous BOSCs
- BOSC has been held yearly since 2000.
- In 2018, BOSC was held jointly with GCC as a combined GCCBOSC conference. We hope to partner with GCC again in 2020 or 2021. Read more here about why we decided to hold BOSC with GCC in 2018 and ISMB in 2019.
- Information about the first 19 BOSC conferences
Code of Conduct
As part of ISMB/ECCB 2019, BOSC 2019 will be covered by ISMB's Code of Conduct..
Contact Us
- Follow BOSC on Twitter: @OBF_BOSC, #bosc2019
- If you'd like to join the mailing list for BOSC-related announcements, including the call for abstracts and deadline reminders, please subscribe to bosc-announce. 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 obf-bosc@googlegroups.com.
- Join our public Gitter channel, https://gitter.im/OBF/BOSC_community