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BOSC 2014

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The Bosc Pear
The 15th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014) will be held in Boston on July 11-12, right before ISMB 2014.


Important Dates

  • March 1, 2014: Call for abstracts open
  • April 4, 2014: Deadline for submitting abstracts
  • July 11-12, 2014: BOSC 2014, Boston, MA
  • July 12-16, 2014: ISMB 2014, Boston, MA

Overview

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two-day Special Interest Group of ISMB. It is sponsored by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development within the biological research community.

Open Source software has flourished in the bioinformatics community for well over a decade. When the first BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) was held in 2000, there were already a number of popular open source bioinformatics packages, and the number and range of these projects has increased dramatically since then. BOSC covers the wide range of open source bioinformatics software packages that have been successfully developed and adopted by the community, and encompasses the growing movement of Open Science, with its focus on transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance. We welcome submissions relating to all aspects of open source bioinformatics software and open science, including new computational methods, reusable software components, visualization, interoperability, and other approaches that help to advance research in the biological sciences. Two full days of talks, posters, panel discussions, and informal discussion groups will enable BOSC attendees to interact with other developers and share ideas and code, as well as learning about some of the latest developments in the field of open source bioinformatics.

Please spread the word about BOSC--all are welcome. On Twitter, follow @OBF_BOSC and use hash tag #bosc2014.

Session Topics

  • Software Interoperability
  • Genome-scale Data and Beyond
  • Visualization
  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Bioinformatics Open Source Libraries and Projects
  • Reproducibility: Rewards and Challenges (Panel discussion)

Keynote Speakers

This year's keynote speakers will be C. Titus Brown (Michigan State University) and Philip Bourne (NIH).

More information about BOSC 2014 Keynote Speakers

Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

Members

Ex Officio (Members of the O|B|F Board)

Previous BOSCs

Contact Us

  • Follow BOSC on Twitter: @OBF_BOSC, #bosc2014
  • If you'd like to join the mailing list for BOSC-related announcements, including the call for abstracts and deadline reminders, please subscribe to the Bosc-announce list. This list has low traffic, and your address will be kept private.
  • If you have questions about the conference, or would like to volunteer to help out, please contact the organizers at bosc@open-bio.org.