The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is an

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programming and other open science practices in

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, organised by the

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. The conference has been held annually since 2000 and is run as a two-day meeting either within

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(ISMB) conference or as a joint conference with the

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community.

Program

The conference is held as a single track consisting of presentations,

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s and two keynote talks by people of influence in open-source bioinformatics. Since 2010, an informal two-day "CollaborationFest" (formerly Codefest) has been held directly preceding the conference.

History

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Associate Director for Data Science

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and C. Titus Brown gave keynote talks at BOSC 2014. BOSC 2016 was organized in

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from July 8–9 before the main ISMB conference. In 2018 and 2020, BOSC partnered with

to organize two joint conferences called ''GCCBOSC'' and ''Bioinformatics Community Conference'' (BCC) respectively. The event in 2018 was held in

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. The BCC in 2020 took place online with two time schedules for eastern/western time zones Since 2021, BOSC has been taking place within the ISMB conferences again. In 2023 BOSC will take place in

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, France between July 24-28 as part of the ISMB/ ECCB conference.

Past conferences

As of November 2022, there have been 23 BOSC held around the world, of those 20 were purely in-person conferences, 2 purely remote due to the

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and one that was organized as a hybrid meeting.

References

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