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The **B** ioinformatics **O** pen **S** ource **C** onference promotes and facilitates the [open source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/open_source) development of [bioinformatics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bioinformatics) tools and open science.
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BOSC has been part of ISMB every year except for 2018 and 2020. In 2020, BOSC partnered with GCC to form the Bioinformatics Community Conference, BCC2020. In 2018, BOSC was held jointly with GCC as a combined [GCCBOSC2018](https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/).
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Since it launched in 2000, BOSC has been part of ISMB every year except for 2018 and 2020. In 2020, BOSC partnered with GCC to form the Bioinformatics Community Conference, BCC2020. In 2018, BOSC was held jointly with GCC as a combined [GCCBOSC2018](https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/).
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< [BOSC 2024](/events/bosc-2024) (the 25th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) took place July 15-16, 2024, as part of [ISMB 2024](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023), in Montréal, Canada and online.
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**[BOSC 2025](/events/bosc-2025) will be part of [ISMB/ECCB 2025](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home) in Liverpool, UK, July 21-22, 2025.**
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BOSC 2025 will be part of [ISMB/ECCB 2025](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home) in Liverpool, UK, between July 20-24, 2025.
- Inform the research community of important developments in open source bioinformatics
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- Provide a focused environment for developers and users to interact and share ideas about open source approaches in bioinformatics
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- Make connections between participants that could enhance the open source ecosystem and lead to collaborations
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- Promote open science, with its focus on sharing data and tools, transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance
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#### BOSC aims to:
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- Provide developers with a forum for displaying their work to the wider research community;
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- Provide a focused environment for developers and users to interact and share ideas about software development, open science, and practical techniques in bioinformatics;
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- Promote Open Science, with its focus on sharing data and tools, transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance;
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- Inform the research community of important developments in Open Source Bioinformatics.
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# All the BOSCs
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### Previous BOSCs
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-[BOSC 2024](/events/bosc-2024/) The 25th annual BOSC was held July 15-16, 2024, as part of [ISMB 2024](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2024), in person in Montréal, Canada, and online.
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-[BOSC 2023](/events/bosc-2023/) took place July 26-27, 2023 as part of [ISMB/ECCB 2023](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023), in person in Lyon, France, and online.
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-[BOSC 2022](/events/bosc-2022/) took place July 13-14, 2022, as part of [ISMB 2022](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022), in person in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and also online.
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-[BOSC 2021](/events/bosc-2021/), part of [ISMB/ECCB 2021 online](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021), took place July 29-30, 2021.
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-[BOSC 2020](/events/bosc/) online (as part of Bioinformatics Community Conference, [BCC2020](https://bcc2020.github.io/))
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-[BOSC 2019](/events/bosc-2019/) Basel, Switzerland (as part of ISMB/ECCB 2019)
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-[BOSC 2018](/wiki/BOSC_2018) Portland, Oregon (colocated with the Galaxy Community Conference as part of [GCCBOSC 2018](/2018/07/27/gccbosc-2018-post-meeting-report/))
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-[BOSC 2018](/wiki/BOSC_2018) Portland, Oregon (with the Galaxy Community Conference as [GCCBOSC 2018](/2018/07/27/gccbosc-2018-post-meeting-report/))
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-[BOSC 2001](/wiki/BOSC_2001) Copenhagen, Denmark
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-[BOSC 2000](/wiki/BOSC_2000) San Diego, CA USA
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In recent years the BOSC meetings have been preceded or followed by a two day [CollaborationFest](<a href=), an informal community collaboration event. Initially called CodeFest, the event was renamed CollaborationFest in 2018 to reflect the fact that it's not just about coding.
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# Get Involved
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#### CollaborationFest
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In recent years, the BOSC meetings have been preceded or followed by a two day [CollaborationFest](/events/bosc-2024/obf-bosc-collaborationfest-2024/), an informal collaborative work event. Initially called CodeFest, the event was renamed CollaborationFest in 2018 to reflect the fact that it's not just about coding.
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## Get involved
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There are many ways to get involved with the conference:
There's no conference without attendees! Your presence is crucial to the success of the event, and we're always happy to see new faces. We encourage everyone to attend the main meeting and/or CoFest, interact with other attendees, and tweet about their experience.
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There's no conference without attendees! Your presence is crucial to the success of the event, and we're always happy to see new faces. We encourage everyone to attend the main meeting and/or CollaborationFest, interact with other attendees, and post about their experience. And tell your colleagues and friends who aren't there that they should attend next year!
Our focus is on open source work and communities. Code presented at BOSC must be open and properly licensed. If your work is more about training materials than code, we'd like your materials to be open and licensed so others can benefit from it!
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In the early days of BOSC, an abstract that was basically "I wrote some bioinformatics code, and it's open source" was good enough to merit at least a short talk, but we've grown since then. Even if a project is new and therefore doesn't yet have a community, there should be some sort of plan for building a community of users and/or developers.
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Even with the hard requirement of openness, we do try to provide a platform to everyone who wants to present. We have "long" talks (17 minutes + 3 minutes for questions), short/"lightning" talks (5 minutes), posters and Birds of a Feather sessions.
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We try to provide a platform to everyone who wants to present appropriate work. We have "long" talks (typically 17 minutes + 3 minutes for questions), short/"lightning" talks (5 minutes), and posters.
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<ahref="/events/bosc-2025/submit/"class="btn btn-lg btn-primary">Submit an abstract</a>
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## Organize a BoF
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"Birds of a Feather" groups are self-organized meetings during BOSC where anyone who wants to have a conversation with the community can gather and share. Usually BoFs are submitted through the conference website, and the list of topics will be available to all attendees. These tend to happen over lunch or dinner, or in the evenings, and can be a great way to meet people in smaller, more accessible groups. Past BoFs have included project introductions, sponsor demos, discussions on diversity and inclusion, and conversations about specific technologies or standards.
Conference abstracts are reviewed by volunteers who express their interest. We encourage reviewers to be constructive in their comments, and some choose to sign their reviews. Most reviewers are assigned about 6 abstracts to review. We acknowledge our reviewers on the conference website and in the program.
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## Review Abstracts
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<ahref="https://github.com/OBF/bosc_materials/blob/master/BOSC_review_process.md"target="_new"class="btn btn-lg btn-primary">More about the review process</a>
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Conference abstracts are reviewed by volunteers who express their interest. We encourage reviewers to be constructive in their comments, and many sign their reviews. Most reviewers are assigned 3-5 abstracts per call, and there are two calls per conference (the main one, and a "late breaking lightning talk" round). We acknowledge our reviewers on the conference website and in the program. If you'd like to be a reviewer, contact the organizing committee at bosc@open-bio.org.
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## Join the Organizing Committee
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###Join the Organizing Committee
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The organizing committee does most of the work to make BOSC a successful meeting. Committee members help write communications to reviewers, participants, and attendees; decide on the program; design conference materials; find dinner locations; chair sessions during the conference; and more! The workload gets heavy in two waves: first when abstracts are being reviewed and the program is being put together, and again as the conference gets closer. Most organizing committee members start out by becoming abstract reviewers.
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We acknowledge organizing committee members on the conference website and in the program, and they are entitled to complimentary conference registration if their institution/employer can't cover it.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation welcomes donations to help support the BOSC and [CoFest](/events/bosc/collaborationfest/) events. Please see the [Sponsors](/events/bosc/sponsors/) page for more information.
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The Open Bioinformatics Foundation welcomes donations to help support the BOSC and [CollaborationFest](/events/bosc/collaborationfest/) events. Please see the [Sponsors](/events/bosc/sponsors/) page for more information.
### Mélanie Courtot (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research)
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######_The Data Shows We Need Better Data_
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#### _The Data Shows We Need Better Data_
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Big data, AI, LLMs… do they live up to the hype? In a bright and hopeful future, AI accelerates progress, revolutionizes healthcare, alerts us to health risks, and creates fresh career paths. Yet, in a bleaker outlook, it obliterates jobs, fosters rampant misinformation and increases inequity.
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_Dr Courtot obtained her PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia in 2014, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Public Health. Dr Courtot co-leads the Clinical and Phenotypic workstream and Data Use and Cohort representation groups for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) as well as cohort harmonization efforts for the International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium. She is an advisory board member for the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology coalition, European Open Science Cloud for Cancer project and the eLwazi open data science platform._
######_Open Data, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models_
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#### _Open Data, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models_
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Bioinformatics is the science of collecting, storing, analyzing, and disseminating biological data and information. As in most domains of data science, bioinformaticians have long focused on structured data – information that is represented using ontologies and controlled vocabularies in well-defined data formats and often stored in databases with predefined schemas. This focus on structured data over the last 30 years has been the most efficient way to convert information into testable hypotheses and new scientific insights.
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_The [Su lab](https://sulab.org/) focuses on building and applying bioinformatics infrastructure for biomedical discovery. Dr. Su has had a long-standing interest in leveraging crowdsourcing to organize and integrate knowledge though projects like the Gene Wiki and Wikidata. In partnership with Chunlei Wu’s lab, he has also worked extensively on creating biomedical APIs and enabling API interoperability through the BioThings project. Most recently, his lab has a particular emphasis on constructing and mining knowledge graphs for drug repurposing. In all this work, the Su lab has embraced the principles of open science, open data, and open source software._
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### BOSC keynote speaker selection process
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BOSC usually includes two or three keynote talks given by prominent individuals or emerging leaders who are accomplished in areas relevant to the bioinformatics open source community and who represent a range of backgrounds and ideas. Please see our [invited speaker rubric](https://github.com/OBF/bosc_materials/blob/master/invited-speaker-process.md) for more information about our keynote speaker selection process and criteria.
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BOSC usually includes two or three keynote talks given by prominent individuals or emerging leaders who are accomplished in areas relevant to the bioinformatics open source community and who represent a diversity of backgrounds and ideas. Please see our [invited speaker rubric](https://github.com/OBF/bosc_materials/blob/master/invited-speaker-process.md) for more information about our keynote speaker selection process and criteria.
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