<html><head><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 class="" style="text-align: center;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Call for Abstracts for the 18th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2017)</font></b></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">An ISMB/ECCB Community of Special Interest (COSI)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="8EDF4628-5949-496B-9301-C9C126DBF48B" src="cid:64A74A8E-5CAE-441E-8C2D-F0898B5D127F@nomi-and-tim.org" 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="">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/OBF_BOSC" class="">@OBF_BOSC</a>, #BOSC2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Important Dates</b></div><div class=""><ul class=""><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 20-21, Brmlab, 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="">Keynote Speakers</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This year's <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017_Keynote_Speakers" class="">keynote speakers</a> will be <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017_Keynote_Speakers" class="">Dawn Field</a> (Göteborg University), known for her work on open data and interoperability, and <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017_Keynote_Speakers" class="">Nick Loman</a> (University of Birmingham), a vocal proponent of open genomic data in healthcare who heads the Zibra project.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Session Topics</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><li class="">Panel: Open Data--Standards, Opportunities and Challenges</li></ul></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Sponsors</b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class=""><br class="">We welcome <a href="http://thehyve.nl/" class="">The Hyve</a> (open source solutions for bioinformatics) and <a href="https://science.mozilla.org/" class="">Mozilla Science Lab</a> (a community of researchers, developers, and librarians making research open and accessible), as new sponsors for BOSC 2017.<br class=""><br class="">If you would like to be a sponsor of BOSC, please contact us at <a href="mailto:bosc@open-bio.org" class="">bosc@open-bio.org</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class=""><b class="">Abstract submission</b></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class=""><span 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></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">We look forward to reading your abstract, and hope to meet many of you in Prague this summer!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class=""> The 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" class="" style="text-align: center;" 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 the end of the day on April 13! <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission" class="">https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission</a>!</div></body></html>