<div dir="ltr"><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Having trouble viewing this email or looking for a permalink? <a href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">View this newsletter in your browser</a>.</em></p><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">This email was sent to the <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/bosc-announce" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">bosc-announce</a> and <a href="http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/open-bio-l/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">open-bio-l</a> mailing lists.</em></p><h1 dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-obf-newsletter-julyaugustseptember-2022" class="gmail-anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#obf-newsletter-julyaugustseptember-2022" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>OBF Newsletter July/August/September 2022</h1><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">BOSC 2022 was amazing; BOSC 2023 will be part of ISMB/ECCB in Lyon, France + online. Our next event fellowship application deadline is Oct 1. The Nextflow community is having a get-together, and Terra.bio invites educators to use the cloud to teach genomics.</p><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">In longer form:</p><h2 dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-obf-news" class="gmail-anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#obf-news" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>OBF News</h2><h3 dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:1.25em;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-bosc-news" class="gmail-anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#bosc-news" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>BOSC News</h3><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"><a href="http://open-bio.org/events/bosc/bosc-2022/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">BOSC 2022</a></span> took place in July as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) of <a href="https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">ISMB 2022</a>, which was held as a hybrid event, in-person in Madison, WI (USA) and online. Over the two days of the BOSC COSI, approximately 200 people participated in <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-schedule/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">BOSC sessions</a>, which included 28 talks chosen from submitted abstracts, 46 posters, and a <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-panel/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">panel discussion, “Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities”</a>. BOSC 2022 included <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-keynotes/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">joint keynotes</a> with two other COSIs. Jason Williams gave a BOSC / Education COSI keynote entitled "Riding the bicycle: Including all scientists on a path to excellence". A joint session with Bio-Ontologies featured a keynote by Melissa Haendel, “The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies.”</p><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">A <a href="https://f1000research.com/articles/11-1034" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">report about BOSC 2022</a> has been published as part of the <a href="https://f1000research.com/collections/bosc" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">BOSC collection on F1000</a>. All BOSC presenters are encouraged to submit their presentation slides and/or posters to the collection by September 30, 2022.</p><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">You can find personal accounts of BOSC 2022 on the OBF blog:</p><ul dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Festus Nyasimi, a co-founder and lead of the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya Initiative (BHKi), shares the story of <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2022/08/01/obf-event-fellow2022-fnyasimi/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">his journey to the ISMB/BOSC 2022 conference on an OBF Event Fellowship</a> (see next section for info about Event Fellowships).</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Geraldine Van der Auwera collected impressions and takeaways from multiple BOSC participants in <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2022/08/16/crowdsourced-highlights-from-bosc-2022/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">a blog that will make you wish you were at BOSC 2022 last month and plan to be at BOSC 2023 next year</a>.</li></ul><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">BOSC 2023</span> will take place in July as a COSI of <a href="https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">ISMB/ECCB 2023</a> as a hybrid event; in-person in Lyon (France), and online.</p><h3 dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:1.25em;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-obf-event-fellowships-formerly-travel-fellowships" class="gmail-anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#obf-event-fellowships-formerly-travel-fellowships" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>OBF Event Fellowships (formerly "Travel Fellowships")</h3><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">Last round: April 1, 2022<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Next round: October 1, 2022</p><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">Our <a href="https://www.open-bio.org/2022/08/12/obf-event-fellowship-2022-round2/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">call for applications is open again</a>, with a <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">deadline on October 1st</span>. We invite applications for financial support to attend or host events taking place between November 1, 2022 and November 1, 2023.</p><p dir="au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coration-line:none">Nextflow Summit 2022</a> will also be held in Barcelona + online! Join to learn about the latest developments and innovations from the Nextflow world. Registration and poster abstracts still open; travel bursaries are available.</li></ul><h3 dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:1.25em;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-genomics-in-the-classroom" class="gmail-anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#genomics-in-the-classroom" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>Genomics in the classroom</h3><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px">Do you teach genomics or a related discipline in a classroom setting, and want to run hands-on exercises without sweating the IT stuff? The <a href="https://terra.bio/blog/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">Terra blog</a> recently featured an <a href="https://terra.bio/anvil-in-the-classroom-cloud-scale-educational-resources-for-modern-genomics/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">ASHG webinar on using cloud resources for teaching genomics</a>, which provided an overview of useful resources and a live demonstration. The recording is available <a href="https://learning.ashg.org/products/anvil-in-the-classroom-cloud-scale-educational-resources-for-modern-genomics#tab-product_tab_contents__1" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">on-demand from ASHG</a> (free registration required).</p><h3 dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:1.25em;line-height:1.25;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji""><a id="gmail-user-content-your-content-needed-for-the-next-issue" class="gmail-anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2022-07.md#your-content-needed-for-the-next-issue" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1"></a>Your content needed for the next issue!</h3><p dir="auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,47);font-family:-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:16px;margin-bottom:0px">Tell us about the things that catch your attention in the open source bioinformatics world! If you have an exciting project update, request for feedback, or interesting link, <a href="https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/issues/24" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">feel free to share it with us on GitHub</a>, or contact Geraldine Van der Auwera (Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/VdaGeraldine" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">@VdaGeraldine</a>, Email: <a href="mailto:geraldine@broadinstitute.org" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">geraldine@broadinstitute.org</a>) if you're not sure whether or not your content is suitable for our newsletter. We're looking for content that's primarily open source / science related.<br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>