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Revision as of 18:51, 22 November 2010
The 12th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2011 will be held immediately before the 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2011) at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria. The dates of BOSC 2011 are July 15-16; the main ISMB Conference runs July 17-19, 2011. There will also be a CodeFest before BOSC (date and location TBA).
The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 18, 2011.
Contents
Overview
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 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.
Many open source bioinformatics packages are widely used by the research community across many application areas and form a cornerstone in enabling research in the genomic and post-genomic era. Open source bioinformatics software has facilitated rapid innovation, dissemination, and wide adoption of new computational methods, reusable software components, and standards. One of the hallmarks of BOSC is the coming together of the open source developer community in one location to meet face-to-face. This creates synergy where participants can work together to create use cases, prototype working code, or run bootcamps for developers from other projects as short, informal, and hands-on tutorials in new software packages and emerging technologies. In short, BOSC is not just a conference for presentations of completed work, but is a dynamic meeting where collaborative work gets done and attendees can learn about new or on-going developments that they can directly apply to their own work.
BOSC 2010 was held in Boston, MA, from July 9-10. Selected, peer-reviewed papers from BOSC 2010 will be published in BMC Bioinformatics.
Important Dates
- February 28, 2011: Call for abstracts opens
- April 18, 2011: Deadline for submitting abstracts
- May 9, 2011: Notifications for accepted abstracts e-mailed to corresponding authors
- May 16, 2011: Deadline for presenters to confirm acceptance of invitation to speak and for authors offered conditional acceptance to come into compliance with requested changes.
- July 15-16, 2011: BOSC 2011
Abstract Submission Information
The deadline for abstract submissions is Monday, April 18, 2011.
Abstracts must be one page in length and submitted as a PDF file only. Please observe the following formatting guidelines:
- Use 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins on the top, sides, and bottom of the page.
- List the following elements in order from the top of the page:
- Title
- Authors, with the presenting author's name underlined.
- Author affiliations, including the e-mail address of the presenting author.
- URL for the overall project web site
- URL for accessing the code
- The particular Open Source License being used
- The abstracts will be presented "as is" in the program booklet; please help your all-volunteer Organizing Committee by following the formatting guidelines above.
- NOTE: upload your one-page, PDF-formatted abstract to the Open Conference System site as the File. The text box for the Abstract is optional; the PDF file is what will be reviewed.
Accepted talks will be 10-20 minutes, depending on the session. You will be notified of the length of your talk upon abstract acceptance.
Submissions for Lightning Talks (5 minutes) will be accepted up until the first day of the conference, though submission to the program following the above guidelines is strongly encouraged to facilitate better planning. The open-source license requirement (see below) applies equally to lightning talks.
Open Source License Requirement
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which is the sole sponsor of BOSC, is dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source Software Development within the biological research community. For this reason, if a submitted talk proposal concerns a specific software system for use by the research community, then that software must be licensed with a recognized Open Source License, and be available for download, including source code, by a tar/zip file accessed through ftp/http or through a widely used version control system like cvs/subversion/git/bazaar/Mercurial.
See the following websites for further information:
Organizing Committee
Co-Chairs
- Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute)
Members
- Brad Chapman (Biopython developer; Mass General Hospital)
- Peter Cock (Scottish Crop Research Institute)
- Erwin Frise (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Darin London (BioPerl Developer, Duke University)
- Ron Taylor (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Ex Officio (Members of the O|B|F Board)
Previous BOSCs
The first BOSC was held in 2000. Please see past BOSC conferences for information about the first 11 conferences.
Contact Us
- 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. This list has low traffic, and your address will be kept private.
- If you have questions about the conference, please contact the organizers at bosc@open-bio.org.
