[Bosc-announce] BOSC abstract deadline extended to Monday, April 4!

[Nomi Harris]

By popular demand, the deadline for submitting BOSC abstracts has been extended to Monday, April 4.

Please submit your one-page abstract about any topic in open source bioinformatics or open science at https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission> .

The deadline for applying for OBF Travel Fellowships (https://news.obf.io/2016/03/01/obf-travel-fellowship-program/ <https://news.obf.io/2016/03/01/obf-travel-fellowship-program/>) is April 15.

We look forward to reading your abstract, and hope to see you at BOSC 2016!

	Nomi Harris, BOSC 2016 Co-chair  
	
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 9:56 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Call for Abstracts for the 17th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source
> Conference (BOSC 2016), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2016.
> 
> Dates: July 8-9, 2016
> Location: Orlando, FL
> Web site: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2016
> Email: bosc at open-bio.org
> BOSC announcements mailing list:
> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce
> Twitter: @OBF_BOSC and @OBF_News
> 
> Important Dates:
> 
> * Call for one-page abstracts opens: March 1, 2016
> * Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2016
> * Travel fellowship application deadline: April 15, 2016
> * Authors notified: May 6, 2016
> * Codefest 2016: July 6-7, 2016, Orlando, FL (confirming venue)
> * BOSC 2016: July 8-9, 2016, Orlando, FL
> * ISMB 2016: July 8-12, 2016, Orlando, FL
> 
> The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is run as a two-day
> meeting before the annual ISMB conference. It is organized by the Open
> Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to
> promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software
> development and open science within the biological research community.
> BOSC offers a focused environment for developers and users to interact
> and share ideas about standards; software development practices;
> practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; and
> approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and
> software.
> 
> We welcome one-page abstracts on any topic of relevance to open source
> bioinformatics and open science. Presentation formats are lightning
> talks, longer talks, and/or posters. We plan to offer a limited number
> of travel fellowships to help offset expenses for some accepted
> speakers who would not otherwise be able to attend BOSC – please see
> the OBF Travel Fellowship announcement for more information:
> 
> http://news.open-bio.org/2016/03/01/obf-travel-fellowship-program/
> 
> Session topics include:
> * Open Science and Reproducible Research
> * Standards and Interoperability
> * Data Science
> * Visualization
> * Translational Bioinformatics
> * Bioinformatics Open Source Libraries and Projects
> 
> If your company or organization is interested in helping to sponsor
> BOSC 2016, please contact us! Sponsors in 2015 included Google,
> GigaScience, Curoverse and Bina – we thank them for their support.
> 
> Please see http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission for
> abstract submission instructions,
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> BOSC 2016 Organizing Committee:
> Nomi Harris and Peter Cock (co-chairs), Brad Chapman, Christopher
> Fields, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar Lapp, Mónica Muñoz-Torres, Heather
> Wiencko
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