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== Organizing Committee ==
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'''Co-Chairs'''
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* Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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* Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute)
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'''Members'''
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* [http://bcbio.wordpress.com Brad Chapman] ([http://biopython.org Biopython developer]; Mass General Hospital)
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* Erwin Frise (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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* [http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Darin_London Darin London] (BioPerl Developer, Duke University)
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* Ron Taylor (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
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'''Ex Officio (Members of the O|B|F Board)'''
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* [http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Chris_Dagdigian Chris Dagdigian]
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* [http://myweb.lmu.edu/kdahlqui Kam D. Dahlquist] (Loyola Marymount University)
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* [http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Hilmar_Lapp Hilmar Lapp]
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* [http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Jason_Stajich Jason Stajich]

Revision as of 22:31, 22 November 2010

The Bosc Pear

The 12th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2011 will be held immediately before the 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2011) at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria. The dates of BOSC 2011 are July 15-16; the main ISMB Conference runs July 17-19,2 011. There will also be a Hackathon before BOSC (date and location TB).

BOSC 2010 was held in Boston, MA, from July 9-10. Selected, peer-reviewed papers from BOSC 2010 will published in BMC Bioinformatics.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 18, 2011.

Overview

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 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.

Many open source bioinformatics packages are widely used by the research community across many application areas and form a cornerstone in enabling research in the genomic and post-genomic era. Open source bioinformatics software has facilitated rapid innovation, dissemination, and wide adoption of new computational methods, reusable software components, and standards. One of the hallmarks of BOSC is the coming together of the open source developer community in one location to meet face-to-face. This creates synergy where participants can work together to create use cases, prototype working code, or run bootcamps for developers from other projects as short, informal, and hands-on tutorials in new software packages and emerging technologies. In short, BOSC is not just a conference for presentations of completed work, but is a dynamic meeting where collaborative work gets done and attendees can learn about new or on-going developments that they can directly apply to their own work.

Important Dates

  • February 28, 2011: Call for abstracts opens
  • April 18, 2011: Deadline for submitting abstracts
  • May 9, 2011: Notifications for accepted abstracts e-mailed to corresponding authors
  • May 16, 2011: Deadline for presenters to confirm acceptance of invitation to speak and for authors offered conditional acceptance to come into compliance with requested changes.
  • July 15-16, 2011: BOSC 2011

Abstract Submission Information

The deadline for abstract submissions is Monday, April 18, 2011.

Abstracts must be one page in length and submitted as a PDF file only. Please observe the following formatting guidelines:

  • Use 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins on the top, sides, and bottom of the page.
  • List the following elements in order from the top of the page:
    • Title
    • Authors, with the presenting author's name underlined.
    • Author affiliations, including the e-mail address of the presenting author.
    • URL for the overall project web site
    • URL for accessing the code
    • The particular Open Source License being used
  • The abstracts will be presented "as is" in the program booklet; please help your all-volunteer Organizing Committee by following the formatting guidelines above.
  • NOTE: upload your one-page, PDF-formatted abstract to the Open Conference System site as the File. The text box for the Abstract is optional; the PDF file is what will be reviewed.

Accepted talks will be 10-20 minutes, depending on the session. You will be notified of the length of your talk upon abstract acceptance.

Submissions for Lightning Talks (5 minutes) will be accepted up until the first day of the conference, though submission to the program following the above guidelines is strongly encouraged to facilitate better planning. The open-source license requirement (see below) applies equally to lightning talks.

Open Source License Requirement

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which is the sole sponsor of BOSC, is dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source Software Development within the biological research community. For this reason, if a submitted talk proposal concerns a specific software system for use by the research community, then that software must be licensed with a recognized Open Source License, and be available for download, including source code, by a tar/zip file accessed through ftp/http or through a widely used version control system like cvs/subversion/git/bazaar/Mercurial.

See the following websites for further information:

Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

  • Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  • Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute)

Members

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

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