<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Good news for those who need more time to finish their GCCBOSC abstracts! The deadline for submitting talk abstracts has been extended to Monday, May 19 (end of the day). </div><div class="">(Of course, if you’re ready to submit your abstract now, please go ahead! We already have a good crop of early abstracts and would love to get more!)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www" class="">https://www</a>.<a href="http://open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abst" class="">open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abst</a>ract_Submission has abstract guidelines and a link for submitting your abstract.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—The BOSC Organizing Committee</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2018, at 10:24 PM, Nomi Harris <<a href="mailto:nlharris@gmail.com" class="">nlharris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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: 20px;">GCCBOSC 2018: A Bioinformatics Community Conference</font></b></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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: 20px;"><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="CC60425F-E544-4405-AD08-CCD2512B625A" src="cid:1DF5601B-6B91-4F13-96AB-FB9470657175@nomi-and-tim.org" class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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="">Call for Abstracts</font></b></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;"><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> GCCBOSC 2018 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" class="" style="font-size: 13px;">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" class="" style="font-size: 13px;">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="font-weight: normal; 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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; 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; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Important Dates</b></span></div><div class="" style="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;"><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:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><b class="">March 16, 2018</b><b class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span class="">(by 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time)</span></li><li class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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, 2018</li><li class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><a href="https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/" class="">Early registration for GCCBOSC</a> ends: May 11, 2018</li><li class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px;"><div class="">GCCBOSC <a href="https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/training/" class="">Training</a>: June 25-26, 2018</div></li><li class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px;"><div class="">GCCBOSC <a href="https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/" class="">Talks</a>: June 27-28</div></li><li class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;">GCCBOSC <a href="https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/collaboration/" class="">CollaborationFest</a>: June 29-30</div></li></ul></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">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. This year, BOSC is partnering with the Galaxy Community Conference.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">GCCBOSC 2018 will include two days of talks (including some joint GCC/BOSC sessions), three <a href="https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/keynotes/" class="">keynote speakers</a> (see below), a panel discussion, posters, demos, Birds of a Feather, and more. The two days of talks will be preceded by two days of training, and will be followed by a two-day <a href="https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/collaboration/" class="">CollaborationFest</a>.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="609071E0-0138-431F-94EB-5BCE83A1C458" src="cid:29924CD0-F7DE-4806-AC2C-3040E6C097CE@nomi-and-tim.org" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;"><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 to BOSC (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="font-weight: normal; 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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span class="">(but are not limited to):</span></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;"><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="font-weight: normal; 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;"><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="font-weight: normal; 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;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="EC0F1C86-FD51-4D7E-AFBA-19DFD7F456ED" src="cid:C752C8A2-8E88-478B-9B5E-E80E1156E82A@nomi-and-tim.org" class=""></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-weight: normal; 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;">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="font-weight: normal; 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;"><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Bosc-announce mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:Bosc-announce@mailman.open-bio.org" style="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;" class="">Bosc-announce@mailman.open-bio.org</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce" style="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;" class="">http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce</a><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></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>