Tag: conferences
Microbiome (k)nights
December 29, 2022 :
Luise Rauer, a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich’s Institute of Environmental Medicine, was awarded an OBF Event Fellowship to participate virtually in the 9th International Human Microbiome Consortium (IHMC) conference in November 2022.
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. […]
Join us at BOSC 2021!
March 24, 2021 :
BOSC 2021 will take place July 29-30, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online. Key Dates May 6, 2021 (11:59pm EDT): […]
BCC2020 pre-conference open house
July 8, 2020 :
After much discussion, the BCC2020 organizing committee has decided to hold the meeting on Remo.co, which is similar to Zoom […]
Help us make BCC2020 a rewarding online experience!
May 22, 2020 :
We’re old hands at organizing in-person BOSCs (some of us were involved in planning the very first BOSC, in 2000), […]
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.
The color of bioinformatics: what is it and how can it be modified?
August 29, 2018 :
This is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend […]
City of roses they call it – Portland Oregon (USA)
August 18, 2018 :
How should I start describing the fruitful experience in this amazing city… First time ever in Portland, second time attending […]
GCCBOSC 2018 post-meeting report
July 27, 2018 :
This year, the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) and the Bioinformatics Community Conference (BOSC) met together to form the first Bioinformatics […]
Following up from BOSC’s OBF Birds of a Feather meeting
July 9, 2018 :
It was really great to meet so many of you at GCCBOSC this year! We will soon have a couple […]
Travel award recipients for April 2018
May 25, 2018 :
We had another great round of applications for the OBF Travel Fellowship this spring. After reviewing the applications, the OBF Board selected […]
Saving science from itself: A review of the 2018 eLife Innovation Sprint
May 22, 2018 :
This is a guest blog post from Anisha Keshavan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
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 […]
BOSC 2017 report
October 28, 2017 :
BOSC 2017 (https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017) was held in Prague in July 2017 as part of the annual ISMB conference. Nearly 250 people, […]
Travel award recipients for April 2017
June 5, 2017 :
We had a huge response to this round of the OBF travel award. After reviewing the applications, the OBF board […]
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 […]