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BOSC 2022 was amazing; BOSC 2023 will be part of ISMB/ECCB in Lyon, France + online. Our next event fellowship application deadline is Oct 1. The Nextflow community is having a get-together, and Terra.bio invites educators to use the cloud to teach genomics.
In longer form:
BOSC 2022 took place in July as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) of ISMB 2022, which was held as a hybrid event, in-person in Madison, WI (USA) and online. Over the two days of the BOSC COSI, approximately 200 people participated in BOSC sessions, which included 28 talks chosen from submitted abstracts, 46 posters, and a panel discussion, “Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities”. BOSC 2022 included joint keynotes with two other COSIs. Jason Williams gave a BOSC / Education COSI keynote entitled "Riding the bicycle: Including all scientists on a path to excellence". A joint session with Bio-Ontologies featured a keynote by Melissa Haendel, “The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies.”
A report about BOSC 2022 has been published as part of the BOSC collection on F1000. All BOSC presenters are encouraged to submit their presentation slides and/or posters to the collection by September 30, 2022.
You can find personal accounts of BOSC 2022 on the OBF blog:
- Festus Nyasimi, a co-founder and lead of the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya Initiative (BHKi), shares the story of his journey to the ISMB/BOSC 2022 conference on an OBF Event Fellowship (see next section for info about Event Fellowships).
- Geraldine Van der Auwera collected impressions and takeaways from multiple BOSC participants in a blog that will make you wish you were at BOSC 2022 last month and plan to be at BOSC 2023 next year.
BOSC 2023 will take place in July as a COSI of ISMB/ECCB 2023 as a hybrid event; in-person in Lyon (France), and online.
Last round: April 1, 2022
Next round: October 1, 2022
Our call for applications is open again, with a deadline on October 1st. We invite applications for financial support to attend or host events taking place between November 1, 2022 and November 1, 2023.
As described on the website, the fellowship can be used to cover registration fees for relevant events related to open source bioinformatics or open science (in-person or virtual), and potentially additional expenses such as childcare for the duration of the event, small hardware (e.g. a headset or webcam), or high-speed internet.
Read more about applying for an OBF Event Fellowship, and the experiences of past awardees.
The OBF acts as an umbrella host organization for open source organizations who wish to work with a student for the four months of Google Summer of Code. This year, we're pleased to have six students on board, working on a range of projects. Learn more about the students, their projects and their OBF mentors on the Google Summer of Code site.
- Oct 3-5: There will be 3x free online training events in parallel across all time zones.
- Oct 10-12: The nf-core hackathon will be held in Barcelona + online.
- Oct 12-14: The Nextflow Summit 2022 will also be held in Barcelona + online! Join to learn about the latest developments and innovations from the Nextflow world. Registration and poster abstracts still open; travel bursaries are available.
Do you teach genomics or a related discipline in a classroom setting, and want to run hands-on exercises without sweating the IT stuff? The Terra blog recently featured an ASHG webinar on using cloud resources for teaching genomics, which provided an overview of useful resources and a live demonstration. The recording is available on-demand from ASHG (free registration required).
Tell us about the things that catch your attention in the open source bioinformatics world! If you have an exciting project update, request for feedback, or interesting link, feel free to share it with us on GitHub, or contact Geraldine Van der Auwera (Twitter: @VdaGeraldine, Email: geraldine@broadinstitute.org) if you're not sure whether or not your content is suitable for our newsletter. We're looking for content that's primarily open source / science related.