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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">BOSC 2022 dates: July 13-14, as part of ISMB 2022</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Location: Madison, WI, USA, and virtual</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Website:</strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2019" target="_blank"><strong> </strong></a><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/</strong></a><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">BOSC announcements mailing list:</strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce" target="_blank"><strong> </strong></a><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce" target="_blank"><strong>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce</strong></a><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Slack channel: </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew" target="_blank"><strong>https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> </strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Twitter:</strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://twitter.com/OBF_BOSC" target="_blank"><strong> </strong></a><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://twitter.com/OBF_BOSC" target="_blank"><strong>@OBF_BOSC</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">,
#BOSC2022</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">Key Dates</strong></div>
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<li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">April 21, 2022: Deadline for </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/submit/" target="_blank"><strong>submitting
talk/poster abstracts</strong></a></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">May 12: Talk/poster acceptance notifications</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">May 19: Late poster (and Late-Breaking Lightning Talk) submission deadline</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">May 26: Late poster / LBLT acceptance notifications</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">July 13-14: </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/" target="_blank"><strong>BOSC
2022</strong></a></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">July 15-16: CollaborationFest (CoFest)</strong></li></ul>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">About BOSC</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference promotes and facilitates the open source development of bioinformatics tools and open science. Since 2000, BOSC has
provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics and open science. BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development
practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow open source communities while promoting diversity within them.</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">As usual, BOSC will include keynote talks, longer and shorter (lightning) talks from submitted abstracts, posters, Birds of a Feather, and more!</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">New this year: </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/2022/03/03/bosc-and-bio-ontologies-joint-session/" target="_blank"><strong>Joint
session with Bio-Ontologies</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">!</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">We are excited to announce that BOSC and </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/ismb-annual-meeting" target="_blank"><strong>Bio-Ontologies</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> will
join forces for part of a day at ISMB 2022. The joint session will feature keynote speaker Melissa Haendel as well as talks chosen from abstracts submitted to BOSC or Bio-Ontologies.</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt" href="https://open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-keynotes" target="_blank"><strong>Keynote Speakers</strong></a><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt"> </strong><img width="150" height="150" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/sGizDBKFcjciFhST2gtzn90EO-bkeNIz8eqfATj1UQz7Z3W5HkihhND8iKyxhOG6z9kw45J7v9-Cj66ETSuqsF5YwP_DBye18TxwX6Z6FAislU7fyGu8AfilDaLC65MPXGjBZfU"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/cro9y_yK4SaRBjxnV3T9S8AGZCALoxm_q4hSvCkCwZCfmZcRTq54ywJ7gVuGe3eelWwUsoPFbbNx3XcNqeWRm7vFlhTkXgaIsrfgGHqX21rKrclmxnwcfic3ssDykbqyivJOi1E"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Melissa Haendel is the Chief Research Informatics Officer at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Director of the Center for Data to Health (CD2H).
With expertise in molecular genetics and developmental biology as well as translational informatics, Dr. Haendel focuses on open science and data integration to improve rare-disease diagnosis and mechanism discovery. She is a leader in ontologies and standards
for data sharing.</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Lior Pachter is the Bren professor of computational biology at Caltech. He is a </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows" target="_blank"><strong>Fellow
of the International Society of Computational Biology</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> and has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.
His research interests span the mathematical and biological sciences, including algorithms, combinatorics, comparative genomics, algebraic statistics, molecular biology, and evolution. Dr. Pachter is known as a vociferous advocate of open and accountable science.</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">A third keynote speaker will be announced soon!</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">Abstract submission</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">We encourage you to </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/submit/" target="_blank"><strong>submit
abstracts</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> (due April 21 – sorry, no extensions) on any topic relevant to open source bioinformatics or open science. After review, some abstracts will
be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, or posters. Abstracts that are not chosen for talks will automatically be considered for posters.</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Abstract submission will be via ISMB’s EasyChair. Note that ISMB requires a short (200-word) text-only abstract for all submissions (talk or poster), plus a
“long abstract” (PDF, 2 pages max) if you want to be considered for a talk. A second, later round of submissions will end May 19. Abstracts submitted in the late round will be considered only for posters and a limited number of “late-breaking lightning talk”
slots; they are not eligible for longer talks.</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">Registration fee assistance</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">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 a registration fee waiver right on the abstract submission form (which will not be seen by reviewers). Those who are not submitting abstracts can apply for an </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/event-awards/" target="_blank"><strong>OBF
Event Fellowship</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> (deadline April 1, 2022).</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">BOSC topics include (but are not limited to):</strong></div>
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<li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Ontologies: Open Source Tools and Approaches (new this year – joint session with </strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/" target="_blank"><strong>Bio-Ontologies
COSI</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">)</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Science and Reproducible Research</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Biomedical Data</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Citizen/Participatory Science</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Standards and Interoperability</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Data Science</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Workflows</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Science for Global Health</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Developer Tools and Libraries</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Inclusion, Outreach and Training</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Bioinformatics Open Source Project Reports (about new or existing projects)</strong></li><li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open and interoperable ontologies (</strong><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/2022/03/03/bosc-and-bio-ontologies-joint-session/" target="_blank"><strong>joint
session with Bio-Ontologies</strong></a><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">)</strong></li></ul>
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</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">We look forward to reading your abstract and seeing you (in person or virtually) at BOSC 2022!</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Sincerely,</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">BOSC 2022 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris, Karsten Hokamp, Hervé Ménager, Monica Munoz-Torres, Deepak Unni, Nicole Vasilevsky, Jason Williams</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;">Director, High Performance Computing in Biology</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;"><br>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;">1206 W. Gregory Dr., MC-195, Rm. 2002, Urbana, IL 61801</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;"></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;">Phone: (217) 244-1890 | </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="mailto:cjfields@illinois.edu"><font color="#0563C1">cjfields@illinois.edu</font></a><font color="#0563C1"></font>| <a href="https://hpcbio.illinois.edu"><font color="#0563C1">https://hpcbio.illinois.edu</font></a></span></span>
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