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covers all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science.
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[Abstract submission is open!](/events/bosc-2025/submit/)
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The second day of BOSC 2025 will be a **[joint session](/2025/03/17/BOSC-BOKR-2025) with the newly-renamed
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[Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)](https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/2025-meeting)**,
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and will feature a joint keynote and talks on some of our favorite topics, including open data and reusable and reproducible science.
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The program will conclude with a panel discussion on Data Sustainability.
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and will feature a [joint keynote by Chris Mungall](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-keynotes/) and talks on some of our favorite topics, including open data and reusable and reproducible science.
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The program will conclude with a [panel discussion on Data Sustainability](/events/bosc-2025/panel/).
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The full lineup of talks is available on our [Schedule page](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-schedule/).
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Last year's conference, [BOSC 2024](/events/bosc-2024), took place July 15-16, 2024 as part of [ISMB 2024](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2024/), in Montréal, Canada and online.
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Videos of the talks from BOSC 2024 are available on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@OBFBOSC/). Our report about BOSC 2024 was [published in F1000Research](https://f1000research.com/articles/13-1100).
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#### BOSC 2025 Review Committee
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Aziz Khan*, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras*, Bhavesh Patel, Christopher Fields*, Damien Goutte-Gattat*, Daniel Korn, Deepak Unni, Fortune Ogo-Ndah Awala, Gayathri Jonnalagadda, J. Harry Caufield*, Karsten Hokamp, Kartik Khosa, Konstantin Okonechnikov,
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Luis Pedro Coelho, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Naouel Karam, Nomi Harris, Olawumi Olasunkanmi, Peter Cock, Rafael Gonçalves, Sayali Talware, Sepideh Mazrouee*, Tanya Berardini, Tazro Ohta*, Tyrone Chen, Van Truong, Yuvanesh Vedaraju
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Awardees are required to write a [post on the OBF blog](/category/travel-fellowship/) about their experience attending the event. This should be completed within three weeks after the event ends, and is a prerequisite before the awardee can receive payment.
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Awardees are required to write a [post on the OBF blog](/category/event-fellowship/) about their experience attending the event. This should be completed within three weeks after the event ends, and is a prerequisite before the awardee can receive payment.
#### _Open Knowledge Bases in the Age of Generative AI_
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#### (Keynote talk for [joint BOSC/BOKR session](/2025/03/17/BOSC-BOKR-2025/))
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Dr. Chris Mungall is a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Lab, where he heads the [Biosystems Data Science department](https://biosciences.lbl.gov/egsb/biosystems-data-science/) in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division. Chris’s research interests center around the capture, computational integration, and dissemination of biological research data, and the development of methods for using this data to elucidate biological mechanisms underpinning the health of humans and of the planet. He and his team have led the creation of key biological ontologies for the integration of resources covering gene function, anatomy, phenotypes and the environment, including the the Uberon anatomy ontology, the Cell Ontology (CL), and the Mondo disease ontology. He is also one of the cofounders of the [OBO Foundry](https://obofoundry.org/). For decades, he has been a strong advocate for open-source bioinformatics software, open standards, and open science.
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ABSTRACT: The scientific and clinical community relies on the active development of a wide range of interlinked knowledge bases in order to plan experiments, interpret omics data, and to help with the diagnosis and treatment of disease. These knowledge bases make use of expert curation and the use of community ontologies in order to provide accurate and structured information that can be used algorithmically.
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The advent of generative AI and agentic methods presents fantastic opportunities for accelerating curation, increasing the breadth and depth of coverage. Open knowledge bases also present opportunities to generative AI, in the form of a trusted backbone of knowledge that can mitigate the hallucinations that plague large language models. However, the pace of development of AI, combined with misunderstandings about both strengths and weaknesses, poses significant dangers.
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In this talk, I will present our recent work on the use of agentic AI to assist with manual knowledge base tasks, particularly those involving complex ontology development and maintenance tasks. I will present a realistic picture of challenges we face, but also strategies to mitigate them, and a path towards a future where agents, curators, and others can work together to leverage and integrate open source tools and data along with the combined knowledge of the scientific community.
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<i>Dr. Chris Mungall is a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Lab, where he heads the [Biosystems Data Science department](https://biosciences.lbl.gov/egsb/biosystems-data-science/) in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division. Chris’s research interests center around the capture, computational integration, and dissemination of biological research data, and the development of methods for using this data to elucidate biological mechanisms underpinning the health of humans and of the planet. He and his team have led the creation of key biological ontologies for the integration of resources covering gene function, anatomy, phenotypes and the environment, including the the Uberon anatomy ontology, the Cell Ontology (CL), and the Mondo disease ontology. He is also one of the cofounders of the [OBO Foundry](https://obofoundry.org/). For decades, he has been a strong advocate for open-source bioinformatics software, open standards, and open science.
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Chris, who has a PhD in bioinformatics from the University of Edinburgh, is a PI on the [Gene Ontology](http://geneontology.org/) (GO), the [Monarch Initiative](https://monarchinitiative.org/), the [Alliance of Genome Resources](https://www.alliancegenome.org/), [Phenomics First](https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2020/10/08/phenomics-first-project-receives-10m-to-unite-genetic-disease-data/), and the [NCATS Biomedical Data Translator](https://ncats.nih.gov/translator), as well as metadata lead for the [National Microbiome Data Collaborative](https://microbiomedata.org/) (NMDC).
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In 2017, Chris was the first person to be awarded the [Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration Award](https://www.biocuration.org/2017-biocuration-awards/) by the International Society for Biocuration. In 2020, he received a Berkeley Lab Early Scientific Career Director’s Award.
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In 2017, Chris was the first person to be awarded the [Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration Award](https://www.biocuration.org/2017-biocuration-awards/) by the International Society for Biocuration. In 2020, he received a Berkeley Lab Early Scientific Career Director’s Award.</i>
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#### _Working together to develop, promote and protect our data resources: Lessons learnt developing CATH and TED_
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Dr. Christine Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL).
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ABSTRACT: The CATH protein domain structure classification was the vision of the pioneering computational scientist Janet Thornton. Algorithms developed by Orengo and Taylor in the lab of Willie Taylor enabled the analyses that laid the foundations for CATH. Since then, the Orengo team have taken CATH forward in many ways. Working closely with the protein sequence, structural and evolutionary biology communities provided the focus and feedback to shape the resource.
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Maintaining the value and integrity of CATH has necessitated continuously embracing new types of data as it became relevant and developing the appropriate tools for this. For example, CATH was recently expanded >400-fold with predicted structures from AlphaFold Database (AFDB) using novel AI-based tools.
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CATH is also a partner resource in InterPro and was used by the Structural Genomics Consortia in the US for more than 15 years to probe novel fold and function space. All CATH data and tools are publicly available. The talk will present landmark developments and describe how the resource has benefitted from extensive collaborations with the wider community to handle the data expansions and to provide accurate data needed by the community. It will also draw on CATH experience to reflect on strategies for supporting open data and open source.
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<i>Dr. Christine Orengo is a Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL).
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Her research focuses on the development of algorithms to capture relationships between protein structures, sequences and functions.
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She has built one of the most comprehensive protein classifications, [CATH](https://www.cathdb.info/). CATH structural and functional data for hundreds of millions of proteins has enabled studies that revealed essential universal proteins and their biological roles, and extended characterisation of biological systems implicated in disease e.g. in cell division, cancer and aging.
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[The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED)](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/resources?id=zenodo_10788941) is a joint effort by CATH (Orengo group) and the Jones group at University College London to identify and classify protein domains in AlphaFold2 models from AlphaFold Database version 4, covering over 188 million unique sequences and 365 million domain assignments.
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She is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), an Elected Member of EMBO since 2014, and a Fellow of ISCB since 2016. Dr. Orengo is a strong supporter of FAIR and open data and data sharing practices.</i>
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At the University of Oxford, Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone holds three roles: Academic Lead for Research Practice, Professor of Data Readiness in the Department of Engineering Science, and Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, where she leads the Data Readiness Group to develop open-source software, community standards, and educational resources, enhancing collection, representation, sharing, publication, and reuse of multi-dimensional data.
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BOSC 2025, the 26th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, will take place July 21-22, 2025 in Liverpool, UK (as part of [ISMB/ECCB 2025](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home)).
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**Abstract submission is now open!** We welcome submission of your 1-2 page abstract for consideration as a talk (if submitted before April 17) or poster.
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Missed the April 17 talk submission deadline? You can still submit your short abstract in the Late Poster round, which closes May 15.
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The second day of BOSC 2025 will be a joint session with the newly renamed Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation COSI (BOKR). Abstracts submitted to either BOSC and BOKR that fall into the overlapping topic area will be considered for this joint session.
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SUBMISSION IS NOW CLOSED. The full lineup of talks for 2025 is available on our [Schedule page](/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-schedule/).
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- Abstract template for formatting your PDF (optional): [bosc-abstract-template](/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bosc2022-abstract-template.docx) (MS Word)
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The [Open Bioinformatics Foundation](/), which coordinates BOSC, is dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source Software Development and Open Science within the biological research community.
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