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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

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Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
BOSC Logo
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)Madison, United States (2022)
Years active24
Previous eventBOSC 2022
Next eventBOSC 2023
Attendance~100[1]
Organised byNomi L. Harris, Karsten Hokamp (2021 chairs)[2]
MemberOpen Bioinformatics Foundation
Websitewww.open-bio.org

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is an academic conference on open-source programming and other open science practices in bioinformatics, organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The conference has been held annually since 2000 and is run as a two-day meeting either within Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference or as a joint conference with the Galaxy community.

Program

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The conference is held as a single track consisting of presentations, poster sessions and two keynote talks by people of influence in open-source bioinformatics.[1]

Since 2010, an informal two-day "CollaborationFest" (formerly Codefest) has been held directly preceding the conference.[3][4]

History

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National Institutes of Health Associate Director for Data Science Philip Bourne and C. Titus Brown gave keynote talks at BOSC 2014.[5]

BOSC 2016 was organized in Orlando, Florida from July 8–9 before the main ISMB conference.[6]

In 2018 and 2020, BOSC partnered with Galaxy to organize two joint conferences called GCCBOSC and Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC) respectively.[7] The event in 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon.[8] The BCC in 2020 took place online with two time schedules for eastern/western time zones[9]

Since 2021, BOSC has been taking place within the ISMB conferences again. In 2023 BOSC took place in Lyon, France between July 24-28 as part of the ISMB/ECCB conference.

References

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  1. ^ a b Harris, N. L.; Cock, P.; Chapman, B.; Goecks, J.; Hotz, H.-R.; Lapp, H. (July 14, 2014). "The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2013". Bioinformatics. 31 (2): 299–300. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu413. PMC 4287938. PMID 25024288.
  2. ^ "BOSC 2021 – Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  3. ^ "Codefest - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". www.open-bio.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  4. ^ Möller, Steffen; Afgan, Enis; Banck, Michael; Cock, Peter J. A.; Kalas, Matus; Kajan, Laszlo; Prins, Pjotr; Quinn, Jacqueline; Sallou, Olivier; Strozzi, Francesco; Seemann, Torsten; Tille, Andreas; Valls Guimera, Roman; Katayama, Toshiaki; Chapman, Brad (October 14, 2013). "Sprints, Hackathons and Codefests as community gluons in computational biology". EMBnet.journal. 19 (B): 40. doi:10.14806/ej.19.B.726.
  5. ^ "BOSC 2014 Schedule - Open Bioinformatics Foundations". www.open-bio.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  6. ^ "BOSC 2016 – Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Open Bio.
  7. ^ "About BOSC - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  8. ^ "GCCBOSC 2018 - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  9. ^ "Bioinformatics Community Conference". Retrieved November 22, 2022.