<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Call for Abstracts for the 18th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2017)</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">An ISMB/ECCB Community of Special Interest (COSI)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dates: July 22-23, 2017</div><div class="">Location: Prague, Czech Republic</div><div class="">Web site: <a href="http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017" class="">http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017</a></div><div class="">Email: <a href="mailto:bosc@open-bio.org" class="">bosc@open-bio.org</a></div><div class="">BOSC announcements mailing list: <a href="http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce" class="">http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce</a></div><div class="">Twitter: @OBF_BOSC</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Important Dates</b></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Call for one-page <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission" class="">abstracts</a> opens: March 6, 2017</li><li class=""><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission" class="">Abstract submission</a> deadline: April 13, 2017</li><li class=""><a href="https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Travel_fellowships.md" class="">Travel fellowship</a> application deadline: April 15, 2017</li><li class="">Authors notified: May 10, 2017</li><li class=""><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2017" class="">Codefest 2017</a>: July 21-22, Prague</li><li class=""><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017" class="">BOSC 2017</a>: July 22-23, Prague (days 1 and 2 of ISMB/ECCB)</li><li class=""><a href="https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2017" class="">ISMB/ECCB 2017</a>: July 21-25, Prague</li></ul></div><div class=""><b class="">About BOSC</b></div><div class="">Since 2000, the yearly Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics. 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the past, BOSC has taken place the two days before ISMB as a Special Interest Group (SIG). This year, ISMB is trying a new structure: the SIGs (now called COSIs) are integrated into the main ISMB meeting. BOSC will take place the first two full days of ISMB (July 22-23). Attendees will have the option to register for the full ISMB/ECCB meeting (July 21-25) or for just two days (there is no single-day registration option this year). A limited number of partial travel fellowships will be granted to some accepted speakers who would not otherwise be able to attend BOSC--please see <a href="https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Travel_fellowships.md" class="">https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Travel_fellowships.md</a> for more information.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We encourage you to submit one-page abstracts on any topic of relevance to open source bioinformatics and open science. After review, some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, and/or posters. Abstract submission instructions and a link to the EasyChair portal can be found on <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission" class="">https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Session topics include:</b></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Open Science and Reproducible Research</li><li class="">Open Biomedical Data</li><li class="">Citizen/Participatory Science</li><li class="">Standards and Interoperability</li><li class="">Data Science</li><li class="">Workflows</li><li class="">Visualization</li><li class="">Medical and Translational Bioinformatics</li><li class="">Developer Tools and Libraries</li><li class="">Bioinformatics Open Source Project Progress Reports</li></ul></div><div class=""><b class="">Sponsorship</b></div><div class="">We gratefully accept sponsorships from relevant private companies. These sponsorships enable us to offer free registration to some BOSC speakers to help increase diversity at our meeting. Sponsors in 2016 included Curoverse, the company behind the open source platform Arvados. Please contact us if you are interested in being a sponsor of BOSC 2017!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class=""> BOSC 2017 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris (chair), Brad Chapman, Peter Cock, Christopher Fields, Bastian Greshake, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar Lapp, Mónica Muñoz-Torres, Heather Wiencko</div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="248036C2-3BB8-4BBE-A381-D34ED3645572" style="text-align: center;" class="" height="115" width="161" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C752C8A2-8E88-478B-9B5E-E80E1156E82A@nomi-and-tim.org"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P.S. Don't forget to submit your BOSC abstract by April 13 at <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission" class="">https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission</a>!</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div></body></html>