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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submit your abstract to BOSC 2023 by April 20!
</span><span style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:black">🍐</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img width="625" height="129" style="width:6.5104in;height:1.3437in" id="Picture_x0020_18" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D96EDA.BC663100"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Highlights</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start: 48px" type="disc">
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/submit/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Submit</span></a> your 1-2 page abstract by April 20 (by the end of the day anywhere in the world). (Sorry, no extensions.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;padding-inline-start: 48px" type="circle">
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l4 level2 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can request registration fee assistance right on the submission form!<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have two exciting <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/bosc-2023-keynotes/">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Keynote Speakers</span></a> lined up!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are planning a Panel Discussion about Open and Ethical Data Sharing!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BOSC and <a href="https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/ismb-annual-meeting/2023-meeting">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Bio-Ontologies</span></a> will join forces for a joint session on July 24 or 25.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We welcome our first <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/sponsors/">
<span style="color:#1155CC">sponsors</span></a> (more coming soon): <a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience">
<span style="color:#1155CC">GigaScience</span></a>, <a href="https://geneviatechnologies.com/">
<span style="color:#1155CC">GeneVia</span></a>, and <a href="https://www.software.ac.uk/">
<span style="color:#1155CC">Software Sustainability Institute</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Keynote speakers</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="160" height="160" style="width:1.6666in;height:1.6666in" id="Picture_x0020_17" src="cid:image002.png@01D96EDA.BC663100" alt="Sara El-Gebali"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="163" height="161" style="width:1.6979in;height:1.677in" id="Picture_x0020_16" src="cid:image003.png@01D96EDA.BC663100"></span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/bosc-2023-keynotes/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Sara El-Gebali</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (SciLifeLab-DataCentre-Sweden):
“A New Odyssey: Pioneering the Future of Scientific Progress Through Open Collaboration.”</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/bosc-2023-keynotes/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Joseph M. Yracheta</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (Native
BioData Consortium): “The Dissonance between Scientific Altruism & Capitalist Extraction: The Zero Trust and Federated Data Sovereignty Solution</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract submission</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We encourage you to </span>
<span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/submit/"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">submit abstracts</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (due April
20 – sorry, no extensions)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> on any topic relevant to open source bioinformatics or open science (see topic list below). After review, some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks, longer
talks, or posters. A second “late poster” round of submissions will end May 18.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abstract submission is via ISMB’s EasyChair (linked from our
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/submit/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">submission page</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">). Note that ISMB
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. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About BOSC</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Since 2000, the </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/about/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Bioinformatics Open Source Conference</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.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As usual,
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">BOSC 2023</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! Like last year, BOSC and
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/ismb-annual-meeting/2023-meeting"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Bio-Ontologies</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
will join forces for a joint session.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC topics include</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (but are not limited to):</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Science and Reproducible Research<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Biomedical Data<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Citizen/Participatory Science<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workflows<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="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 style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Developer Tools and Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Inclusion, Outreach and Training<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open and interoperable ontologies (joint session with Bio-Ontologies)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We realize that the cost of ISMB may be prohibitive for some. If you are submitting an abstract to BOSC and would have difficulty covering the cost of registration, you can request to be considered for
a registration fee waiver right on the abstract submission form (your request will not be seen by reviewers). Fee waivers are made possible by our
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/sponsors/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">sponsors</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome the first Silver
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April 20, 2023: Deadline for </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/submit/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">submitting talk/poster abstracts</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo9;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 11: Talk/poster acceptance notifications<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo9;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 18: Late poster submission deadline</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo9;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 25: Late poster acceptance notifications</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo9;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">July 24-25: <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/">
<span style="color:#1155CC">BOSC 2023</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(part of ISMB/ECCB 2023 in Lyon, France, and online)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo9;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/obf-bosc-collaborationfest-2023/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CC">CollaborationFest</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
(CoFest) – July 22-23 (Lyon, France, and online)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BOSC announcements mailing list</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:<a href="http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce"><span style="color:black">
</span></a><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo10;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Slack:</span></b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew</span></a><u> </u><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo10;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Twitter</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:<a href="https://twitter.com/OBF_BOSC"><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">@OBF_BOSC</span></a>, #BOSC2023<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo10;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mastodon: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://genomic.social/@BOSC"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://genomic.social/@BOSC</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo10;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Website:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2019"><b><span style="color:black">
</span></b></a><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BOSC 2023 Organizing Committee (Nomi Harris, Karsten Hokamp, Hervé Ménager, Monica Munoz-Torres, Deepak Unni, Jason Williams, Chris Fields, Jessica Maia, Radhika Khetani)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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