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The '''B'''ioinformatics '''O'''pen '''S'''ource '''C'''onference is held annually (as a satellite of the [http://www.iscb.org/ ISCB's annual ISMB conference]) to promote and facilitate [[wp:open source|open source]] development of [[wp:bioinformatics|bioinformatics]] tools.  The aims of the conferences are to: 
# Provide developers with a forum for displaying the results of their development efforts to the wider research community; 
# Provide a focused environment for developers and users to interact and share ideas about software development, and practical techniques in bioinformatics; 
# Inform the Research Community of important developments occurring within the Open Source Bioinformatics Developer community.

BOSC meetings to date:

* [[BOSC 2014]] Boston, MA USA -- the upcoming [[Upcoming BOSC conference]].
* [[BOSC 2013]] Berlin, Germany
* [[BOSC 2012]] Long Beach, CA, USA
* [[BOSC 2011]] Vienna, Austria
* [[BOSC 2010]] Boston, MA USA
* [[BOSC 2009]] Stockholm, Sweden
* [[BOSC 2008]] Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* [[BOSC 2007]] Vienna, Austria
* [[BOSC 2006]] Fortaleza, Brasil
* [[BOSC 2005]] Detroit, MI USA
* [[BOSC 2004]] Glasgow, UK
* [[BOSC 2003]] Brisbane, Australia
* [[BOSC 2002]] Edmonton, Canada
* [[BOSC 2001]] Copenhagen, Denmark
* [[BOSC 2000]] San Diego, CA USA

In recent years the BOSC meetings have been preceded by a two day [[Codefest]], an informal developer meeting.

Other conferences
* A [[bp:BioPerl|BioPerl]] [[BioPerl Heidelberg 1999|workshop]] was held in conjunction with ISMB'99 in Heidelberg, Germany.

[[Category:BOSC Conferences]]