Tag: BOSC/ISMB
BOSC CollaborationFest 2023 Report
September 29, 2023 :
BOSC CoFest 2023 was organized in Lyon, as a satellite event of BOSC. CoFest is a free hackathon-style event, where participants gather in small groups to exchange ideas and work together on bioinformatics projects including but not limited to hacking.
Call for the second round of OBF Event Fellowship 2023 and the first 2023 round overview.
July 5, 2023 :
The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2023, round 2, is now open. The deadline for this round […]
Comment period on potential BOSC 2023 keynote speakers is now open
February 10, 2023 :
We asked the community to nominate potential BOSC keynote speakers, and we were pleased with all the great suggestions! Now […]
Crowdsourced highlights from BOSC 2022
August 16, 2022 :
Going home after attending BOSC was a little bittersweet. It’s my favorite conference because it brings together such a welcoming […]
BOSC and Bio-Ontologies: Even better together!
March 2, 2022 :
We are excited to announce that BOSC and Bio-Ontologies will join forces for part of a day at ISMB 2022. […]
BOSC 2021 will be part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 (online)
February 12, 2021 :
BOSC is returning to ISMB in 2021, after a successful partnership with Galaxy for the first Bioinformatics Community Conference last […]
Computational biology without borders
October 15, 2019 :
In this post, OBF Travel Fellowship awardee Aziz Khan discusses the importance of open source software and tools for scientific discovery in the current data-intensive century. He also shares his experiences at ISMB/ECCB and BOSC 2019 in Basel.
BOSC late-round abstract submission closes May 15!
May 9, 2019 :
If you’d like the opportunity to present your work at BOSC 2019 (which will take place in Basel, Switzerland, on […]
Taking Turns
August 2, 2018 :
BOSC 2019 will be part of ISMB 2019 Every year until 2018, BOSC was part of the annual ISMB conference […]
GCCBOSC 2018: A Bioinformatics Community Conference – Call for Abstracts
February 21, 2018 :
We are pleased to announce that abstract submission and early registration for GCCBOSC2018 are now open. This event brings our annual Bioinformatics Open […]
BOSC 2017 in Prague, the land of stories (and beer)
November 21, 2017 :
This is a guest blog post from Farah Zaib Khan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
OBF Travel Fellowship – BOSC session of the ECCB/ISMB 2017
August 28, 2017 :
This blog post is syndicated from a post on Jonathan Sobel’s blog, originally published July 27, 2017. Jonathan was supported […]
BOSC 2017 keynote speakers
April 13, 2017 :
We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2017, and our first sponsors. But […]
New BioJava Logo Design Competition
June 14, 2016 :
BioJava is organizing a design competition to come up with a new logo. Anybody can participate: The logo should look […]
BOSC CodeFest 2016
March 28, 2016 :
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two day meeting focused on open source bioinformatics. We aim to encourage […]
BOSC 2016 Keynote Speakers
March 22, 2016 :
We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2016: Jennifer Gardy Dr. Jennifer Gardy […]
BOSC 2016 Call for Abstracts
March 1, 2016 :
Call for Abstracts for the 17th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2016), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2016. […]
BOSC 2015 Panel – increasing diversity
June 5, 2015 :
Every year, BOSC includes a panel discussion that offers all attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the panelists and each other. The theme of the BOSC 2015 panel would be “Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community”. Our complete list of panellists is as follows…