Tag: conferences
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 […]
First three OBF travel fellowships awarded
May 23, 2016 :
The first round of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program has granted funds to three open source bioinformatics software […]