Informatics Educational Institutions & Programs
| Bioinformatics Open Source Conference | |
|---|---|
 BOSC Logo | |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | Madison, United States (2022) |
| Years active | 23 |
| Previous event | BOSC 2022 |
| Next event | BOSC 2023 |
| Attendance | ~100[1] |
| Organised by | Nomi L. Harris, Karsten Hokamp (2021 chairs)[2] |
| Member | Open Bioinformatics Foundation |
| Website | www |
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.
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 took place in Lyon, France between July 24-28 as part of the ISMB/ECCB conference.
Past conferences
As of January 2024, there have been 24 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 | Conference partner | Location | Keynote speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ISMB | Lyon, France | Joseph M. Yracheta, Sara El-Gebali |
| 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
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "BOSC 2021 – Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "Codefest - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". www.open-bio.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "BOSC 2014 Schedule - Open Bioinformatics Foundations". www.open-bio.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
- ^ "BOSC 2016 – Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Open Bio.
- ^ "About BOSC - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "GCCBOSC 2018 - Open Bioinformatics Foundation". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "Bioinformatics Community Conference". Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "OBF » About BOSC » About BOSC". Retrieved November 23, 2022.
