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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUK3TQiKU$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUK3TQiKU$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="625" height="113" style="width:6.5104in;height:1.177in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D72D65.8FC5A300" alt="YqPBM_zh36k9ModxQHuuwuK9x253wf0w3ZHhjG-aBsZGOTYNMYHyttnnnESl8tgLEuzMfMK8rYtyx65onrwikLrnjgr6Er2XMmgwT82I2u7V7yI9a1TUfVKTzvfYmDqg9AQX9-xo"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC 2021 will take place July 29-30, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online. Join us!</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Key Dates</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 6, 2021: Deadline for</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/submit/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBULPRvKR8$"><b><span style="color:black">
</span>submitting one-page talk/poster abstracts</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 27: Talk/poster acceptance notifications<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">June 3: Late poster (and Late-Breaking Lightning Talk) submission deadline</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">June 10: Late poster / LBLT acceptance notifications</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">July 29-30: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUK3TQiKU$">
BOSC 2021</a> Online (part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">July 31-Aug 1: </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/collaborationfest/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUgY4Hecc$"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CollaborationFest
(CoFest)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About BOSC</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Since 2000, the yearly </span>
<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUSLtRUQU$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bioinformatics
Open Source Conference (BOSC)</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC’s broad
spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow open source communities
while promoting diversity within them.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><br>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC is returning to ISMB in 2021, after a successful partnership with Galaxy for the first Bioinformatics Community Conference last year (BCC2020 online). Originally slated to take
place in Lyon, France, </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUatUQxWs$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ISMB/ECCB
2021</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> will be held online, and features over a dozen tracks, including BOSC. As usual,
</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUK3TQiKU$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
will include keynote talks, longer and shorter (lightning) talks from submitted abstracts, posters, Birds of a Feather, and more!</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><br>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Timing</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC 2021 will be the last two days of ISMB/ECCB: July 29-30.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Our usual free collaborative work event,
</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/collaborationfest/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUgY4Hecc$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CoFest,</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
will be held July 31 - August 1.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The complete ISMB/ECCB schedule is available
</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/ismbeccb2021/schedule/schedule.php__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUnXJzZhI$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
The core hours for talks will be <b>11:00-15:30 UTC</b>, with poster sessions and ISMB keynotes from 15:30-17:30 UTC. The core hours correspond to:</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">13:00-17:30 CEST (Europe)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">12:00-16:30 BST (UK/Ireland)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">7:00-11:30am EDT (East coast of North America)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">4:00-8:30am PDT (West coast of North America)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">9:00pm-1:30am AEST (East coast of Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract submission</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We encourage you to</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/submit/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBULPRvKR8$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">submit abstracts</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">on any topic relevant to open source bioinformatics or open science. After review, some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, or posters. All accepted talks will need
to be video-recorded and submitted several weeks before the conference. <b>Please note: the deadline for Abstract Submission is May 6th!</b></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract submission is via ISMB’s EasyChair.
<b>Note that ISMB/ECCB requires a short (200-word) text-only abstract for all submissions (talk or poster), plus a “long abstract” (PDF, 2 pages max) if you want to be considered for a talk.
</b>Abstracts that are not chosen for talks will automatically be considered for posters.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A second, later round of submissions will end on June 3. Abstracts submitted in the late round will be considered for posters and a limited number of “late-breaking lightning talk”
slots; these late round abstracts are not eligible for longer talks.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><br>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC session topics include</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (but are not limited to):</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Science and Reproducible Research<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Biomedical Data<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Citizen/Participatory Science<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Standards and Interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data Science<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workflows<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Science for Global Health</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Developer Tools and Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Inclusion, Outreach and Training<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bioinformatics Open Source Project Reports (about new or existing projects)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Requesting registration fee assistance</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We realize that the cost of ISMB/ECCB may be prohibitive for some. If you are
</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/submit/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUGUylE-Y$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">submitting
an abstract to BOSC</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> and would have difficulty covering the cost of registration, you can request registration fee assistance. To make it easy, this request can be made right on the
abstract submission form. (Only the conference chairs will see these fee assistance requests — the abstract reviewers will not.) We regret that we will not be able to offer registration fee assistance for those who are not submitting abstracts. (But you should
consider submitting an abstract! Even if your work is preliminary, it may qualify for a poster.)</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stay in touch!</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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@OBF_BOSC</a> and use #BOSC2021 for this year’s conference.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We hope to see you online at
</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/__;!!DZ3fjg!p-UfGw04vhSxPzYtQIhRrr0DY6XqBEd5Nhm6JDyCvJ4GWdWgCuZFmNx30nBUK3TQiKU$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC
2021</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">!</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> BOSC 2021 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris (chair), Karsten Hokamp (co-chair), Peter Cock, Chris Fields, Jessica Maia, Monica Munoz-Torres, Malvika Sharan, Jason Williams</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">P.S. Please share
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with people or groups who might be interested. We are particularly interested in reaching out to diverse communities who may not yet be aware of BOSC!</span></p>
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