<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="" style="font-size: 19px;">GCCBOSC 2018: A Bioinformatics Community Conference</font></b></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Call for Abstracts </font></b></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><img src="cid:D26D7108-3A0D-4525-8F2E-BD56D2709441@nomi-and-tim.org" width="128"></div><div class="" style="font-size: 8px;"><b class="" style="font-size: 8px;"> </b></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> Dates</b>: June 25-30, 2018</div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> Location</b><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">: Reed College, Portland, OR</span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> GCCBOSC website</b><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">: <a href="https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/" class="">https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> BOSC website: </b><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2018" style="font-size: 13px;" class="">https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2018</a></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> Email BOSC organizers</b><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:bosc@open-bio.org" style="font-size: 13px;" class="">b</a><a href="mailto:osc@open-bio.org" class="">osc@open-bio.org</a></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> BOSC announcements mailing list</b><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">: <a href="http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce" class="">http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce</a></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> Twitter</b><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/OBF_BOSC" class="">@OBF_BOSC</a><span class="" style="font-weight: normal;">, #GCCBOSC</span></div></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Important Dates</b></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><ul class=""><li class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission" class="">Abstract submission</a> deadline: March 16, 2018</b></li><li class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Authors notified: April 10, 2018</li><li class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><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="" style="font-size: 14px;"><div class="">GCCBOSC 2018 Training: June 25-26, 2018</div></li><li class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><div class="">GCCBOSC 2018 Talks: June 27-28</div></li><li class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;">GCCBOSC CollaborationFest: June 29-30</div></li></ul></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">About BOSC</b></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">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="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Why is BOSC partnering with GCC in 2018?</b></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><div class="">In past years, BOSC has been part of the ISMB conference. Because of our continuing focus on broadening and deepening the BOSC community, we've been exploring ways to reach those in the bioinformatics community who aren’t already part of the audience attracted by ISMB. As part of that exploration, we have looked at other organizations and conferences that have been successful at establishing a strong and growing community of participants, such as the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After much discussion and planning, we decided to hold BOSC in conjunction with GCC in 2018. We hope that this will be an enjoyable and productive experience for all participants, and we welcome your feedback before, during and after the event.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As always, BOSC 2018 will include two days of talks and posters, two <a href="https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/keynotes/" class="">keynote speakers</a>, a panel discussion, Birds of a Feather, and more. BOSC sessions will run in parallel with GCC 2018 sessions, with some sessions shared. The two days of talks will be preceded by two days of <a href="https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/training/" class="">training</a> on topics nominated by the community, and will be followed by a two-day CollaborationFest that merges BOSC's Codefest and Galaxy's Developer and User Hackathon Days.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Abstract submission</b></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;">We encourage you to submit one-page abstracts (due March 16) on any topic relevant to open source bioinformatics or open science. After review, some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, demos and/or posters. Abstract submission instructions and a link to the EasyChair submission 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><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b class="">BOSC session topics include</b><b class="" style="font-weight: normal;"> </b><span class="">(but are not limited to):</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><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="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="">We look forward to receiving your abstract and meeting you at GCCBOSC 2018!</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class=""> BOSC 2018 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris (chair), Heather Wiencko (co-chair), Brad Chapman (co-chair), Peter Cock, Christopher Fields, Bastian Greshake, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar Lapp, Monica Munoz-Torres</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><img src="cid:C752C8A2-8E88-478B-9B5E-E80E1156E82A@nomi-and-tim.org" width="161"></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">P.S. Don't forget to submit your BOSC abstract by March 16 at <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission" class="">https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission</a>! Please share this announcement with your colleagues!</div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><style class="">ul[class*='mb-extra__public-links'], ul[class*='mb-note__public-links'], ul[class*='mb-task__public-links'] { display: none !important; }</style></div></body></html>