Diversity, inclusion and accessibility (also known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DEI) are a major part of BOSC’s mission and core values, and we pursue these goals in multiple ways. BOSC 2022, for example, included a panel on Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities, with panelists who not only were experts on the topic but also themselves belong to various groups that are typically underrepresented in our community.

The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2023, round 2, is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 August 2023 . Applications should be submitted via this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.

Sponsoring BOSC BOSC 2023 Platinum Sponsor BOSC 2023 Silver Sponsors If you’re interested in sponsoring BOSC 2023, please contact us at bosc@open-bio.org! Sponsorships from companies and organizations help to defray some of our costs and enable us to offer registration fee waivers for some conference participants.

BOSC 2023 Panel: Open and Ethical Data Sharing As a conference that promotes open source and open science, we are big proponents of open data. We love to hear about tools and frameworks (such as FAIR) that promote data sharing and reuse.

This is the schedule for BOSC 2023 Go to full lists of the 2023 talks and posters BOSC 2023 Keynotes: Sara El-Gebali: A New Odyssey: Pioneering the Future of Scientific Progress Through Open Collaboration Joseph Yracheta: The Dissonance between Scientific Altruism &

BOSC 2023 Keynotes Sara El-Gebali (SciLifeLab-DataCentre-Sweden) A New Odyssey: Pioneering the Future of Scientific Progress Through Open Collaboration _Join us in humanity’s quest for knowledge and understanding, on a transformative odyssey of scientific progress, fueled by the power of open collaboration.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.

We’re sharing some important news with you regarding our mailing lists. From early on, we’ve maintained a self-hosted Mailman server for any OBF project that needs a mailing list, including our member roster list.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.

On March 14, 2023, we held a webinar (hosted by ISCBacademy) about “Re-Thinking the Patient’s Role in a Learning Health System: Lessons from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative” presented by Hannah Wei, co-founder and technologist at the Patient-Led Research Collaborative. See the webinar announcement for a full description. BOSC organizing committee member Monica Munoz-Torres introduced Ms. Wei and fielded a lively Q&A session.

CollaborationFest 2023 In conjunction with our annual meeting, B O SC, 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 code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases.