[Biojava-dev] Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2011)--Call for Abstracts

[Andreas Prlic]

Anybody who wants to submit the BioJava abstract for the BOSC meeting this year?

- I will be in Vienna and can help, however I will be attending the
3D-SIG meeting which is at the same time...

Andreas

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:
> We invite you to submit an abstract to BOSC 2011! Please forward this
> message as appropriate, and forgive multiple postings.
>
> Call for Abstracts for the 12th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2011)
> An ISMB 2011 Special Interest Group (SIG)
>
> Dates: July 15-16, 2011
> Location: Vienna, Austria
> Web site: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2011
> Email: bosc at open-bio.org
> BOSC announcements mailing list:  http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce
>
> Important Dates:
> April 18, 2011: Deadline for submitting abstracts to BOSC 2011
> May 9, 2011: Notifications of accepted abstracts emailed to corresponding authors
> July 13-14, 2011: Codefest 2011 programming session (see http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2011 for details)
> July 15-16, 2011: BOSC 2011
> July 17-19, 2011: ISMB 2011
>
> 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. To be considered
> for acceptance, software systems representing the central topic in a
> presentation submitted to BOSC must be licensed with a recognized Open
> Source License, and be freely available for download in source code
> form.
>
> We invite you to submit abstracts for talks and posters.  Sessions include:
> - Approaches to parallel processing
> - Cloud-based approaches to improving software and data accessibility
> - The Semantic Web in open source bioinformatics
> - Data visualization
> - Tools for next-generation sequencing
> - Other Open Source software
>
> In addition to the above sessions, there will be a panel discussion
> about "Meeting the challenges of inter-institutional collaboration". We
> are also working to arrange a joint session with one of the other ISMB
> SIGs.
>
> Thanks to generous sponsorship from Eagle Genomics and an anonymous
> donor, we are pleased to announce a competition for three Student Travel
> Awards for BOSC 2011. Each winner will be awarded $250 to defray the
> costs of travel to BOSC 2011.
>
> For instructions on submitting your abstract, please visit
> http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2011#Abstract_Submission_Information
>
> BOSC 2011 Organizing Committee:
> Nomi Harris and Peter Rice (co-chairs); Brad Chapman, Peter Cock, Erwin Frise, Darin London, Ron Taylor
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