BOSC 2024, the 25th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, took place place July 15-16, 2024, as part of ISMB 2024, in Montréal, Canada and online. BOSC covers open source bioinformatics and open science. The theme for 2024 was Open Approaches to AI/ML; it was reflected in a panel discussion and a talk session.
Videos of the talks from BOSC 2024 are available on our YouTube channel. Our report about BOSC 2024 is published in F1000Research.
BOSC 2025 will take place July 21-22, 2025, in Liverpool, UK (as part of ISMB/ECCB 2025).
BOSC 2024 Keynotes:
2024 Key Dates (2025 dates coming soon)
- March 21, 2024: Early Poster Acceptance submission deadline
- April 19, 2024: Regular abstract submission deadline (talks and posters)
- May 20, 2024: Late poster submission deadline
- July 12-16, 2024: ISMB 2024 (Montréal, Canada and online)
- July 15-16, 2024: BOSC 2024 (part of ISMB)
- July 17-18, 2024: Post-BOSC CollaborationFest
Topics
- Open Science and Reproducible Research
- Open Biomedical Data
- Citizen/Participatory Science
- Standards and Interoperability
- Data Science
- Workflows
- Data Access and Visualization
- Translational Bioinformatics
- Developer Tools and Libraries
- Inclusion, Outreach and Training
- AI/ML: open approaches
Registration and Financial Assistance
To participate in BOSC 2024, you will need to register for ISMB 2024. Those who submit abstracts to BOSC can request a fee waiver on the submission form. You can also apply for an Open Bioinformatics Foundation Event Award (deadlines in April, August, and November).
Sponsorships
Sponsorships from companies and non-profit organizations help to defray some of our costs and support our diversity/inclusion efforts. Thanks to our sponsors, we were able to grant free registration to 15 participants at BOSC 2023, offer honoraria to keynote speakers, and cover other expenses.
If you’re interested in sponsoring BOSC 2024, please see our sponsors page!
Platinum Sponsors:
Seqera makes complex data analysis accessible at any scale
Gold Sponsor:
Silver Sponsor:
`` BOSC 2024 Organizing Committee
Chair: Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin)
- Jason Williams (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Jessica Maia (BD)
- Chris Fields (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)
- Deepak Unni (SIB, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
- Swapnil Sawant (Phoenix Bioinformatics)
- Monica Munoz-Torres (Univ. of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)
- Hervé Ménager (Institut Pasteur)
2024 Review Committee
Emmanuel Adamolekun, Jenea Adams, Suruchi Ahuja, C.Titus Brown, Seth Carbon, J. Harry Caufield, Tyrone Chen, Christopher Fields, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Karsten Hokamp, Arpita Joshi, Aziz Khan, Kartik Khosa, Hilmar Lapp, Hervé Ménager, Nehemiah Mosioma, Monica Munoz-Torres, Tazro Ohta, Konstantin Okonechnikov, Bhavesh Patel, Surya Saha, Swapnil Sawant, Ian Simpson, Rachel Torchet, Deepak Unni
About BOSC
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has been held annually since 2000. BOSC is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community.
Since its inception, BOSC has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics. BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow open source communities while promoting diversity within them.
BOSC is usually preceded or followed by what we now call CollaborationFest ( CoFest for short), a two-day community development session. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in open science, biology and programming to meet, talk and work collaboratively. All are welcome to attend CoFest, whether or not you attend BOSC!
Code of Conduct
As part of ISMB 2024, BOSC 2024 is covered by the ISCB Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.