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The 14th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2013) will take place July 19-20, 2013, in Berlin, Germany, right before ISMB/ECCB 2013.
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Overview
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a satellite of ISMB. It 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.
Open Source software has flourished in the bioinformatics community for well over a decade. When the first BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) was held in 2000, there were already a number of popular open source bioinformatics packages, and the number and range of these projects has increased dramatically since then. Many open source bioinformatics packages are widely used by the research community across a wide variety of applications. Open source bioinformatics software has facilitated rapid innovation, dissemination, and wide adoption of new computational methods, reusable software components, and standards.
BOSC brings together bioinformatics open source developers from all over the world so they can forge connections each other (both within and across projects), increase the visibility of their work, and collaborate to build shared resources. Participants can work together to create use cases, prototype working code, or run hands-on tutorials in new software packages and emerging technologies. For those who are bioinformatics software users rather than developers, BOSC introduces or updates them on a wide array of projects that they might find useful.
Please spread the word about BOSC--all are welcome. On Twitter, follow @BOSC2013 and use hash tag #bosc2013.
Session Topics
- Cloud and Parallel Computing
- Genome-scale Data Management
- Software Interoperability
- Open Science and Reproducible Research
- Visualization
- Bioinformatics Open Source Project Updates
- Panel (TBD)
Keynote Speakers
Cameron Neylon
Cameron Neylon is Advocacy Director for the Public Library of Science, a research biophysicist and well known agitator for opening up the process of research. He speaks regularly on issues of Open Science including Open Access publication, Open Data, and Open Source as well as the wider technical and social issues of applying the opportunities the internet brings to the practice of science. He was named as a SPARC Innovator in July 2010 for work on the Panton Principles and is a recipient of the Blue Obelisk for contributions to open data. He writes regularly at his blog, Science in the Open.
BOSC Open Source License Requirement
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which sponsors 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:
BOSC Organizing Committee
Chair
- Nomi L. Harris (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Members
- Jan Aerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
- Brad Chapman (Biopython developer; Harvard School of Public Health)
- Peter Cock (Biopython developer; James Hutton Institute)
- Christopher Fields (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
- Jeremy Goecks (Emory University)
- Hans-Rudolf Hotz (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)
- Hilmar Lapp (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)
Ex Officio (Members of the O|B|F Board)
Previous BOSCs
- The first BOSC was held in 2000.
- BOSC 2012 took place in Long Beach, California, in July 2012.
- Information about the first 12 conferences
Contact Us
- Follow BOSC on Twitter: @BOSC2013, #bosc2013
- If you'd like to join the mailing list for BOSC-related announcements, including the call for abstracts and deadline reminders, please subscribe to the Bosc-announce list. This list has low traffic, and your address will be kept private.
- If you have questions about the conference, or would like to volunteer to help out, please contact the organizers at bosc@open-bio.org.
