Dear all, As BOSC co-chair I would like to encourage you all to think about attending BOSC 2016, and if you are working on your own open source software for bioinformatics please consider submitting an abstract. See the email below and: http://news.open-bio.org/2016/03/01/bosc-2016-call-for-abstracts/ We've had lots of Galaxy related talks at BOSC over the years, and look forward to more abstract submissions from the Galaxy community this year as well. Also, as a member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Board of Directors, I am delighted to let you know about the new OBF Travel Fellowship which could be used to attend BOSC, or the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2016) if your work fits: http://news.open-bio.org/2016/03/01/obf-travel-fellowship-program/ Thank you, Peter [Galaxy contributor & tool developer, BOSC co-chair, OBF Secretary, etc.] P.S. In case you missed the earlier announcement last year, we finally got rid of the paper forms for OBF membership, see: http://news.open-bio.org/2015/12/10/online-membership-form/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:56 PM Subject: BOSC 2016 Call for Abstracts To: bosc-announce@lists.open-bio.org Cc: bosc-reviewers@lists.open-bio.org, "bosc@open-bio.org" <bosc@open-bio.org> Call for Abstracts for the 17th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2016), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2016. Dates: July 8-9, 2016 Location: Orlando, FL Web site: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2016 Email: bosc@open-bio.org BOSC announcements mailing list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce Twitter: @OBF_BOSC and @OBF_News Important Dates: * Call for one-page abstracts opens: March 1, 2016 * Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2016 * Travel fellowship application deadline: April 15, 2016 * Authors notified: May 6, 2016 * Codefest 2016: July 6-7, 2016, Orlando, FL (confirming venue) * BOSC 2016: July 8-9, 2016, Orlando, FL * ISMB 2016: July 8-12, 2016, Orlando, FL The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is run as a two-day meeting before the annual ISMB conference. It is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community. BOSC offers a focused environment for developers and users to interact and share ideas about standards; software development practices; practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; and approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software. We welcome one-page abstracts on any topic of relevance to open source bioinformatics and open science. Presentation formats are lightning talks, longer talks, and/or posters. We plan to offer a limited number of travel fellowships to help offset expenses for some accepted speakers who would not otherwise be able to attend BOSC – please see the OBF Travel Fellowship announcement for more information: http://news.open-bio.org/2016/03/01/obf-travel-fellowship-program/ Session topics include: * Open Science and Reproducible Research * Standards and Interoperability * Data Science * Visualization * Translational Bioinformatics * Bioinformatics Open Source Libraries and Projects If your company or organization is interested in helping to sponsor BOSC 2016, please contact us! Sponsors in 2015 included Google, GigaScience, Curoverse and Bina – we thank them for their support. Please see http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_Abstract_Submission for abstract submission instructions, Thank you, BOSC 2016 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris and Peter Cock (co-chairs), Brad Chapman, Christopher Fields, Karsten Hokamp, Hilmar Lapp, Mónica Muñoz-Torres, Heather Wiencko