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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 is [published in F1000Research](https://f1000research.com/articles/13-1100).
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## BOSC 2025 Key Dates
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**Registration and Financial Assistance**
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The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has been [held annually since 2000](/events/bosc/about/). BOSC is organized by the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)](/wiki/Main_Page), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community.
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# BOSC 2025 Abstract Submission
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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)). BOSC covers all aspects of open source bioinformatics and open science.
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Abstract submission is now open! We welcome submission of your 1-2 page abstract for consideration as a talk or poster.
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The second day of BOSC 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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**In-person presentation**: "For a variety of reasons, ISCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems."
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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 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.) Last year, thanks to help from our [sponsors](/events/bosc-2024-sponsors/), we were able to grant free registration to 15 participants.
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