[Open-bio-l] Fwd: [Bosc] BOSC 2017: Call for Abstracts

[Peter Cock]

Dear all,

BOSC is the annual conference organised by the OBF, and we hope many
of our members will consider submitting an abstract and/or attending.

Peter

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Dr. Peter Cock,
Bioinformatician at The James Hutton Institute;
Open Bioinformatics Foundation, board of directors, treasurer;
BOSC 2017 organising committee member.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nomi Harris <nlharris at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 6:50 PM
Subject: [Bosc] BOSC 2017: Call for Abstracts
To: bosc-announce at mailman.open-bio.org, bosc-reviewers at open-bio.org
Cc: Nomi Harris <nlharris at gmail.com>, BOSC 2017 Organizing Committee <
bosc at open-bio.org>


*Call for Abstracts for the 18th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source
Conference (BOSC 2017)*
An ISMB/ECCB Community of Special Interest (COSI)

Dates: July 22-23, 2017
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Web site: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017
Email: bosc at open-bio.org
BOSC announcements mailing list: http://lists.open-bio.or
g/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce
Twitter: @OBF_BOSC

*Important Dates*

   - Call for one-page abstracts
   <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission> opens: March 6,
   2017
   - Abstract submission
   <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission> deadline: April
   13, 2017
   - Travel fellowship
   <https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Travel_fellowships.md>
application
   deadline: April 15, 2017
   - Authors notified: May 10, 2017
   - Codefest 2017 <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2017>: July
   21-22, Prague
   - BOSC 2017 <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017>: July 22-23,
   Prague  (days 1 and 2 of ISMB/ECCB)
   - ISMB/ECCB 2017 <https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2017>: July 21-25, Prague

*About BOSC*
Since 2000, the yearly Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has
provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research
results and ideas in open source bioinformatics. 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.

In the past, BOSC has taken place the two days before ISMB as a Special
Interest Group (SIG). This year, ISMB is trying a new structure: the SIGs
(now called COSIs) are integrated into the main ISMB meeting. BOSC will
take place the first two full days of ISMB (July 22-23). Attendees will
have the option to register for the full ISMB/ECCB meeting (July 21-25) or
for just two days (there is no single-day registration option this year). A
limited number of partial travel fellowships will be granted to some
accepted speakers who would not otherwise be able to attend BOSC--please
see https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Travel_fellowships.md for
more information.

We encourage you to submit one-page abstracts on any topic of relevance to
open source bioinformatics and open science. After review, some abstracts
will be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, and/or posters.
Abstract submission instructions and a link to the EasyChair portal can be
found on https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission

*Session topics include:*

   - Open Science and Reproducible Research
   - Open Biomedical Data
   - Citizen/Participatory Science
   - Standards and Interoperability
   - Data Science
   - Workflows
   - Visualization
   - Medical and Translational Bioinformatics
   - Developer Tools and Libraries
   - Bioinformatics Open Source Project Progress Reports

*Sponsorship*
We gratefully accept sponsorships from relevant private companies. These
sponsorships enable us to offer free registration to some BOSC speakers to
help increase diversity at our meeting. Sponsors in 2016 included
Curoverse, the company behind the open source platform Arvados. Please
contact us if you are interested in being a sponsor of BOSC 2017!

Thank you,
      BOSC 2017 Organizing Committee:   Nomi Harris (chair), Brad Chapman,
Peter Cock, Christopher Fields, Bastian Greshake, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar
Lapp, Mónica Muñoz-Torres, Heather Wiencko

P.S. Don't forget to submit your BOSC abstract by April 13 at
https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission!

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