BOSC 2019 Schedule (2020 schedule is coming soon!) Schedule at a glance Download the program without the abstracts [PDF, 15 pages] Download the complete program including abstracts [PDF, 147 pages] Note to speakers Please copy your slides to the podium computer during the break before your session. Also, we encourage presenters to upload their slides to the BOSC F1000 collection.

Sponsoring BOSC Page with current BOSC Sponsors: open-bio.org/events/sponsors/ BOSC 2022 Platinum Sponsors BOSC 2022 Gold Sponsors BOSC 2022 Silver Sponsors Sponsorships from companies and organizations help to defray some of our costs and enable us to offer registration fee waivers for some conference participants.

We have recently applied to Google for the OBF to be part of the Google Summer of Code 2019 programme, again with Kai Blin and Michael Crusoe as joint administrators. Last year, OBF GSoC 2018, was another good year with five students successfully completing their projects: Synchon Mandal (mentor Moritz Beber) “Adding methods to cobrapy for improved constraint-based metabolic modelling.” ( first blog bost;

History 2000 First Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC). 2001 OBF grows out of volunteer projects BioPerl, BioJava and BioPython and is formally incorporated. 2005 Bylaws enacted for the first time and formal membership created. 2012 OBF becomes an associate project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., a fiscal sponsorship organization.

We had a great round of OBF travel fellowship candidates in our last round of applications, and after review we extended offers to three deserving applicants: Malvika Sharan, Lindsay Rutter, and Sarker Kamruzzaman. They’ve all accepted the award, and we’re looking forward to hearing about their experiences! Congratulations to our December 2018 recipients: Malvika Sharan will be attending BOSC at ISMB 2019 in Basel this July.

CollaborationFest 2021 In conjunction with our annual meeting, BOSC, the OBF runs a collaborative event (formerly called CodeFest, short for coding festival, and now called CollaborationFest, or CoFest for short). At these events, participants work together to contribute contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases.

Birds of a Feather (BoFs) Birds of a Feather (BoFs) are informal, self-organized meetups focused on specific topics. They are a great way to meet other like-minded community members and have an in-depth discussion on a topic of interest. The BCC2020 BoF schedule is here. BoFs are held just before and after each day of the main conference. BCC2020 attendees are also welcome to organize informal BoFs as table chats.

For the past several years, BOSC has included a panel discussion that offers attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the panelists and each other.

BCC2020 Keynote Speakers The 2020 Bioinformatics Community Conference is pleased to announce our exceptional keynote speakers for BCC2020: Lincoln Stein Head, Adaptive Oncology at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research How Open Source has Changed the World Lincoln Stein focuses on supporting biomedical research both in Ontario and around the world by making large and complex biological datasets findable, accessible and usable.

BOSC 2017 Schedule This page has links to all the publicly available talk slides, videos and posters. Most of the slides and posters are on our BOSC F1000 Research Collection(others are on SlideShare and FigShare), while the videos are on the BOSC 2017 YouTube playlist.

What is BOSC? The B ioinformatics O pen S ource C onference promotes and facilitates the open source development of bioinformatics tools and open science. Since it launched in 2000, BOSC has been part of ISMB every year except for 2018 and 2020. In 2020, BOSC partnered with GCC to form the Bioinformatics Community Conference, BCC2020.