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<div dir="auto"><img width="624" height="75" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/cIrHXsctAbZAR51eRZOkQqn_Cf55a9gILDMenDNSB7doKvIeRATc65n1f7fHz6mV0fSCa08s8GYOQktArwpqXykencDfpamPfLvtbfpGwY0Wlww3NaGy0V7Z16Q4CTBxc0tIm9k" /><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">BOSC 2022 dates: </strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">July 13-14, as part of ISMB 2022</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Location: </strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Madison, WI, USA, and virtual</span><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">https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/</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"> </a><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce</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">https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew</a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> </span><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">@OBF_BOSC</a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">,</span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> #BOSC2022</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></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:</strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> Deadline for </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/submit/" target="_blank">submitting talk/poster abstracts</a></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">May 12: Talk/poster acceptance notifications</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">May 19: Late poster (and Late-Breaking Lightning Talk) submission deadline</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">May 26: Late poster / LBLT acceptance notifications</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">July 13-14:</strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/" target="_blank">BOSC 2022</a></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">July 15-16: CollaborationFest (CoFest)</span></li>

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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">About BOSC</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br /></span><span 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.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span 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!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></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><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">We are excited to announce that BOSC and </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/ismb-annual-meeting" target="_blank">Bio-Ontologies</a><span 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 </span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">keynote speaker Melissa Haendel</strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> as well as talks chosen from abstracts submitted to BOSC or Bio-Ontologies.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></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: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Melissa Haendel </strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">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.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Lior Pachter </strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">is the Bren professor of computational biology at Caltech. He is a </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows" target="_blank">Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology</a><span 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.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></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 /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 12pt">Abstract submission</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">We encourage you to </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/submit/" target="_blank">submit abstracts</a><span 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.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span 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.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></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><span 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 </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="https://www.open-bio.org/event-awards/" target="_blank">OBF Event Fellowship</a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> (deadline April 1, 2022).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><strong style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">BOSC topics include</strong><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt"> (but are not limited to):</span></div>

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<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Ontologies: Open Source Tools and Approaches (new this year – joint session with </span><a style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt" href="http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bio-Ontologies COSI</a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">)</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Science and Reproducible Research</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Biomedical Data</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Citizen/Participatory Science</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Standards and Interoperability</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Data Science</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Workflows</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open Science for Global Health</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Developer Tools and Libraries</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Inclusion, Outreach and Training</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Bioinformatics Open Source Project Reports (about new or existing projects)</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Open and interoperable ontologies (</span><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">joint session with Bio-Ontologies</a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">)</span></li>

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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span 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!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size: 11pt">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span><span 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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><br /></span></div>

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