Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is an academic conference on open-source programming and other open science practices in bioinformatics, organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The conference has been held annually since 2000 and is run as a two-day meeting either within Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference or as a joint conference with the Galaxy community.

Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
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FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)Madison, United States (2022)
Years active23
Previous eventBOSC 2022
Next eventBOSC 2023
Attendance~100[1]
Organised byNomi L. Harris, Karsten Hokamp (2021 chairs)[2]
MemberOpen Bioinformatics Foundation
Websitewww.open-bio.org

Program

The conference is held as a single track consisting of presentations, poster sessions and two keynote talks by people of influence in open-source bioinformatics.[1]

Since 2010, an informal two-day "CollaborationFest" (formerly Codefest) has been held directly preceding the conference.[3][4]

History

National Institutes of Health Associate Director for Data Science Philip Bourne and C. Titus Brown gave keynote talks at BOSC 2014.[5]

BOSC 2016 was organized in Orlando, Florida from July 8–9 before the main ISMB conference.[6]

In 2018 and 2020, BOSC partnered with Galaxy to organize two joint conferences called GCCBOSC and Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC) respectively.[7] The event in 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon.[8] The BCC in 2020 took place online with two time schedules for eastern/western time zones[9]

Since 2021, BOSC has been taking place within the ISMB conferences again. In 2023 BOSC will take place in Lyon, France between July 24-28 as part of the ISMB/ECCB conference.

Past conferences

As of November 2022, there have been 23 BOSC held around the world, of those 20 were purely in-person conferences, 2 purely remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic and one that was organized as a hybrid meeting.[10]

Year Location Conference partner Keynote speakers
2022 ISMB Hybrid: Madison, WI and online Jason Williams, Melissa Haendel
2021 ISMB Online (would have been Lyon) Christie Bahlai, Lara Mangravite, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
2020 GCC Online (would have been Toronto) Lincoln Stein, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
2019 ISMB Basel, Switzerland Nicola Mulder
2018 GCC Portland, OR Fernando Pérez, Tracy Teal
2017 ISMB Prague, Czech Republic Mad Price Ball, Nick Loman
2016 ISMB Orlando, FL Jennifer Gardy, Steven Salzberg
2015 ISMB Dublin, Ireland Ewan Birney, Holly Bik
2014 ISMB Boston, MA Philip Bourne, Titus Brown
2013 ISMB Berlin, Germany Sean Eddy, Cameron Neylon
2012 ISMB Long Beach, CA Jonathan Eisen, Carole Goble
2011 ISMB Vienna, Austria Lawrence Hunter, Matt Wood
2010 ISMB Boston, MA Guy Coates, Ross Gardler
2009 ISMB Stockholm, Sweden Robert Hanmer, Alan Ruttenberg
2008 ISMB Toronto, Canada Julian Lombardi
2007 ISMB Vienna, Austria Carole Goble
2006 ISMB Fortaleza, Brasil Amos Bairoch, Alberto M.R. Davila
2005 ISMB Detroit, MI Hilmar Lapp
2004 ISMB Glasgow, Scotland Wolfgang Huber
2003 ISMB Brisbane, Australia -
2002 ISMB Edmonton, Canada Ewan Birney, Michael Eisen, Winston Hide
2001 ISMB Copenhagen, Denmark Steven Brenner
2000 ISMB San Diego, CA Tim O'Reilly, Lincoln Stein

References
  1. Harris, N. L.; Cock, P.; Chapman, B.; Goecks, J.; Hotz, H.-R.; Lapp, H. (July 14, 2014). "The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2013". Bioinformatics. 31 (2): 299–300. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu413. PMC 4287938. PMID 25024288.
  2. "BOSC 2021 – Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  3. "Codefest - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". www.open-bio.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  4. Möller, Steffen; Afgan, Enis; Banck, Michael; Cock, Peter J. A.; Kalas, Matus; Kajan, Laszlo; Prins, Pjotr; Quinn, Jacqueline; Sallou, Olivier; Strozzi, Francesco; Seemann, Torsten; Tille, Andreas; Valls Guimera, Roman; Katayama, Toshiaki; Chapman, Brad (October 14, 2013). "Sprints, Hackathons and Codefests as community gluons in computational biology". EMBnet.journal. 19 (B): 40. doi:10.14806/ej.19.B.726.
  5. "BOSC 2014 Schedule - Open Bioinformatics Foundations". www.open-bio.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  6. "BOSC 2016 – Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Open Bio.
  7. "About BOSC - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  8. "GCCBOSC 2018 - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  9. "Bioinformatics Community Conference". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  10. "OBF » About BOSC » About BOSC". Retrieved November 23, 2022.


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