[DAS] [Fwd: [Bosc-announce] BOSC 2009 Call for Abstracts]

[Andy Jenkinson]

The following may be of interest to others on the list. BOSC is 
organised by the OBF, with which the BioDAS project is affiliated, and 
has been a good forum for DAS discussion.

Cheers,
Andy

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Subject: [Bosc-announce] BOSC 2009 Call for Abstracts
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:55:08 -0800
From: Kam Dahlquist <kdahlquist at lmu.edu>
To: kdahlquist at lmu.edu

Please forward as appropriate and forgive multiple postings.

Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
(BOSC) 2009

An ISMB 2009 Special Interest Group (SIG)
Date: June 27-28, 2009
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
URL: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2009
Abstract submission via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=bosc2009

Important Dates
Monday, April 13: Abstract deadline
May 1, 2009:  Notification of accepted abstracts
May 15, 2009: Early Registration Discount Cut-off date
June 27-28, 2009: BOSC 2009

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is sponsored by the Open
Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), a non-profit group dedicated to
promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development
within the biological research community. To be considered for acceptance,
software systems representing the central topic in a presentation submitted
to BOSC must be licensed with a recognized Open Source License, and be
freely available for download in source code form.

Many open source bioinformatics packages are widely used by the research
community across many application areas and form a cornerstone in enabling
research in the genomic and post-genomic era. Open source bioinformatics
software has facilitated rapid innovation, dissemination, and wide adoption
of new computational methods, reusable software components, and standards.
One of the hallmarks of BOSC is the coming together of the open source
developer community in one location to meet face-to-face. This creates
synergy where participants can work together to create use cases, prototype
working code, or run bootcamps for developers from other projects as short,
informal, and hands-on tutorials in new software packages and emerging
technologies.  In short, BOSC is not just a conference for presentations of
completed work, but is a dynamic meeting where collaborative work gets done
and attendees can learn about new or on-going developments that they can
directly apply to their own work.

This year’s conference will mark the 10th anniversary of BOSC.  To
celebrate the special occasion, the theme of this year’s conference is
“Looking Back and Looking Ahead:  Open Source Solutions to Grand Challenges
in Bioinformatics.”  We are inviting abstracts for two different types of
talks:

1.  Descriptions of a particular open source software implementation by a
member of the development team, especially in the areas listed below.

2.  Reviews of open source software that compares and contrasts different
solutions to the same bioinformatics problem.

In addition, we are asking all speakers to come prepared to lead an
informal tutorial on their software during a Birds of a Feather/hackathon
session.  This year’s topics include:
Topics
Design Patterns in Bioinformatics
Regulatory Genomics
Multicore and GPGPU computing
Data & Analysis Management (shared session with DAM SIG)
Computational Grids
Visualization
There will also be updates from O|B|F-sponsored projects, and as always,
abstracts may be submitted for open source software that does not fit
neatly into the above categories. Lightning Talks will also highlight very
recent developments.

To contact the organizing committee, e-mail bosc at open-bio.org.

To sign up for BOSC-related announcements, subscribe to the Bosc-announce
list (http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce).

BOSC 2009 Organizing Committee
Kam D. Dahlquist (Chair)
Lonnie R. Welch (Co-chair)
Hilmar Lapp
Jens Lichtenberg
Frank Drews
Andrew Dalke
Jim Procter
Seán I. O' Donoghue
Anton Nekrutenko
Steffen Moeller



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