[OBF] Reminder: BOSC Abstracts due Monday, 4/13/09

[Kam Dahlquist]

REMINDER:  Abstract deadline for the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source 
Conference (BOSC) 2009 is Monday, April 13.

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

Keynote Speakers

Alan Ruttenberg
Principal Scientist at Science Commons.  He works with Semantic Web 
technologies in computational biology, with an emphasis on the creation and 
application of structured biological knowledge to interpret experimental 
results.

Robert S. Hanmer
Consulting Member of Technical Staff in the Technical Component Management 
area in Alcatel-Lucent’s Operations area, developing software-sourcing 
strategies for middleware and open source software, active in the software 
patterns community,and current President of The Hillside Group.

About BOSC
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.

Sessions
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.

BOSC Post-conference Proceedings
The BOSC 2009 Organizing Committee is currently working out an agreement 
with an Open Access bioinformatics journal to publish a Post-conference 
Proceedings based on this year's presenations.  Details will be available 
on the BOSC web site as they become available.

Contact
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