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To encourage more student presentations at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC), this year we’re waiving the registration fee for accepted student presenters. When you submit your abstract ( BOSC abstract call open until 4th April), you must tick the student box: Student submissions must have a full-time student as the first named and presenting author, and be mostly written by students. Please note that because BOSC registration is via the ISCB as one of the ISCM SIG meetings, eligible students must contact us before filling in their ISCB registration to ensure the BOSC SIG fee is waived. [Read More]

Call for Abstracts for the 15th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2014. Dates: July 11-12, 2014 Location: Boston, MA, USA Web site: /wiki/BOSC_2014 Email: bosc@open-bio.org BOSC announcements mailing list Twitter: @OBF_BOSC and @OBF_News Important Dates: March 24, 2014: Registration opens for ISMB and BOSC April 4, 2014: Deadline for submitting BOSC abstracts May 1, 204: Notification of accepted talk abstracts emailed to authors July 9-10, 2014: BOSC Codefest 2014, Boston July 11-12, 2014: BOSC 2014, Boston July 11-15, 2014: ISMB 2014, Boston The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 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. [Read More]

Thanks to those who participated in the BOSC 2014 Keynote Competition! Our winner is Manuel Corpas, who correctly surmised Philip Bourne: https://twitter.com/manuelcorpas/status/412520369044463616 (In fact, we had already confirmed Philip Bourne as our second keynote speaker before his new job at NIH was announced.) Congratulations, Manuel, on winning free admission to BOSC 2014! Dr. Bourne’s keynote talk will be entitled “Biomedical Research as an Open Digital Enterprise”: The biomedical research lifecycle is fast becoming completely digital and increasingly open to the point that publishing could simply become changing the access control on given research objects comprising ideas, hypotheses, data, software, results, conclusions, reviews, grants and so on. [Read More]

We’re pleased to officially confirm that one of the two keynote speakers for the 15th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference ( BOSC 2014) will be C. Titus Brown, as he announced on Twitter recently: Titus Brown (@ctitusbrown): Excited to be a keynote speaker at BOSC 2014! My title: “A History of Bioinformatics (in the year 2039)” - plenty of room for mischief ;) https://twitter.com/ctitusbrown/status/410934403565490176 In recognition of the growing use of Twitter and social media within science as a way of connecting across geographical divides, we’re announcing a Twitter competition to guess who is scheduled to give the second keynote at BOSC 2014 in Boston. [Read More]

Hello from Berlin, where the pre-BOSC informal CodeFest 2013 meeting is already underway. We’re looking forward to seeing even more of you on Friday and Saturday for BOSC 2013. BOSC 2013 will be the 14th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, and is organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF). It is held as a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting in conjunction with the ISMB conference, which itself is held jointly with the ECCB meeting every second year. [Read More]

**Abstract submissions for the 11th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2010) are now open.**At-a-glance BOSC is an ISMB 2010 Special Interest Group (SIG) Date: July 9-10, 2010 Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA BOSC 2010 web site: /wiki/BOSC_2010 Abstract submission via Open Conference System site: http://events.open-bio.org/BOSC2010/openconf.php E-mail: bosc@open-bio.org Bosc-announce list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce Important Dates April 15: Abstract deadline May 5: Notification of accepted abstracts May 28: Early Registration Discount Cut-off date July 8-9: Codefest 2010 July 9-10: BOSC 2010 August 15: Manuscript deadline for BOSC 2010 Proceedings published in BMC Bioinformatics [Read More]

The BOSC 2010 organizing committee is hard at work getting prepared for this July’s meeting in Boston: /wiki/BOSC_2010 One of the items we’ve traditionally had at the conference is a project update from each of the OpenBio affiliated groups. This year, we’re thinking about organizing these talks around a central theme: the OpenBio solution challenge. We start with a biological question of general interest, and each of the project talks would focus around how you would solve that problem using your toolkit and programming language. [Read More]

BOSC 2010 is currently in the planning stages. It will be held for 2 days in conjunction with the 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The dates of BOSC 2010 are July 9-10; the main ISMB Conference runs July 11-13, 2010. The BOSC 2010 web site can be accessed here: /wiki/BOSC_2010. The BOSC organizing committee is soliciting input on the planning of BOSC 2010 so that we can make it a successful and productive conference for the O|B|F community. [Read More]

Alan Ruttenberg of Science Commons and Robert Hanmer of the Hillside Group have been confirmed as Keynote Speakers for BOSC 2009. For more information, see the BOSC 2009 web site at /wiki/BOSC_2009. Abstract acceptances went out today–stay tuned for the schedule, which will be posted once the speakers have confirmed their invitations. The early registration deadline for BOSC is Friday, May 15; don’t forget to take advantage of the discounted fee for early registrants at http://www. [Read More]