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BOSC 2023 will be hybrid, online + in person in Lyon (France), July 24-25, as a COSI of ISMB. It's application season again for OBF Event Fellowships. The OBF Board met in October and decided some things. People in the community are doing cool things. Read on for full details.
Note these upcoming dates & deadlines:
- March 30: Early poster acceptance submission deadline for BOSC 2023
- April 1: Application deadline for OBF Event Fellowships
- April 20: Regular abstract submission deadline for BOSC 2023
In longer form:
Previous round: October 1, 2022
Next round: April 1, 2023
Our call for applications is open again, with a deadline on April 1st. We invite applications for financial support to attend or host events taking place between May 2023 and April 2024.
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.
Our annual get-together, the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2023, will take place July 24-25 as a COSI of ISMB/ECCB 2023. It will once again be a hybrid event; in-person in Lyon (France), and online. We hope that the online component will offer the opportunity for many of you to participate that otherwise could not.
Note that the regular abstract submission deadline is April 20 and you can request assistance for registration fees when submitting an abstract.
New this year, BOSC is offering an "Early Poster Acceptance" option; so submit your abstract by March 31 to hear by April 6 whether it's been accepted for (at least) a poster!
For more detailed information, see the BOSC 2023 webpage.
We'd like to highlight that this year we are following a formal process for selecting a keynote speaker. After having put out a public call for nominations, we held an open commenting period on the shorlist of nominated speakers. The BOSC organizing committee has drawn on this list to extend invitations to potential keynote speakers. We'd love to hear your feedback about this process at any time.
Interested in becoming a sponsor of BOSC 2023? Visit our sponsors page to see our 2022 sponsors and information about benefits of becoming a sponsor.
The Board met publicly on October 21, 2022, with the following outcomes:
- Iddo Friedberg was elected as a new At-large Member.
- Nomi Harris was elected as Secretary, replacing Chris Fields in that role.
- Proposed updates to the bylaws were deferred to the next public Board meeting (date TBD).
The full meeting minutes are available in this pull request (to be merged at the next public Board meeting).
On March 14, we held a webinar about "Re-Thinking the Patient’s Role in a Learning Health System: Lessons from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative" presented by Hannah Wei, co-founder and technologist at the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, hosted by ISCBacademy. See the webinar announcement for a full description. The webinar recording is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/M2vAotWKd_Q.
If you're not familiar with ISCBacademy, it's a series of free webinars offered by the ISCB, which runs the annual ISMB conference, through the ISCB Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), which include BOSC/OBF.
Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development.
The OBF is not participating as a host organization this year, but our friends at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) are, so we encourage you to check out their call for applications.
As part of the Tools for Polyploids project, the Reads2Map package integrates diverse computational tools for diploid and polyploid species genetic data analysis. It uses the reproducible and scalable structure of WDL to run SNP and dosage calling software and compare their performance using linkage maps as benchmarks. The main workflows' results can be easily evaluated in a Shiny app. The group already released a preprint with results for diploid analysis. The repository is being expanded and it has room for improvements and implementations of other software. The group is open for feedback or contributions through the GitHub issues page or the email chtaniguti@tamu.edu.
For more up to the minute news and announcements about the OBF and BOSC, join the genomic.social community on Mastodon and follow us at @OpenBio and @BOSC. Mastodon is the leading community-friendly alternative to Twitter. We hope to see you there!
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