Thank You. Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash I have reached the end of my term after working with the OBF board members since 2019 and have stepped down from the board. It is bittersweet! I will miss seeing my colleagues from OBF in monthly calls, but also, this comes with an opportunity to make space for new voices to come into the leadership role of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Furkan M. Torun, Data Scientist at OmicEra Diagnostics &

’ello Co-Fest Friends! After failing to find a good spot for an in-person CoFest, we decided to have the CoFest remotely! I was really excited to meet you all at this event (and have you all meet each other) in the real world, but we’ll have to settle for doing that at BOSC (for those who are there). By all means, don’t let this stop your in-person innovations! Want to meet up and work at a café? Do it! Hotel room? It’s your room!

BOSC 2022 schedule at a glance (Scroll down to see the full lists of talks and posters.) BOSC 2022 Talk Schedule Coming soon!

Guest post by Thomas Schlapp, CoFest organizer This year we’re looking to have another post-BOSC CoFest! Last year (my first year being involved in BOSC at all) showed me just how collaborative and innovative this community can be. I’d absolutely LOVE to see more of it again. Last year we saw six very fascinating projects see progress (look them over HERE!). Let’s see if we cannot do just a few more in the name of innovation and collaboration!

BOSC 2022 Panel: Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities Building open source software is a great start, but to maximize the impact, it’s also necessary to put effort into maintaining it. Similarly, open source / open science communities don’t just need to be built; they also need to be maintained and expanded.

CollaborationFest 2022 In conjunction with our annual meeting, BOSC, the OBF runs a collaborative event (formerly called CodeFest, short for coding festival, and now called CollaborationFest, or CoFest for short). At these events, participants work together to contribute contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases.

Go to full lists of talks and posters See talk and poster videos on YouTube BOSC 2022 schedule at a glance Keynotes: Jason Williams (joint keynote with Education COSI): Riding the bicycle — including all scientists on a path to excellence Melissa Haendel (joint keynote with Bio-Ontologies COSI): The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies Panel: Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities See talk

We are excited to announce that BOSC and Bio-Ontologies will join forces for part of a day at ISMB 2022. The joint session will include talks chosen from abstracts submitted to BOSC or Bio-Ontologies, plus a keynote speaker who is well known in both the ontology and open science communities! BOSC and Bio-Ontologies are two of the longest-running COSIs (Communities of Special Interest) at ISMB: BOSC started in 2000 and Bio-Ontologies in 1998.

BOSC 2022 Keynotes Melissa Haendel (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Joint keynote, BOSC and Bio-Ontologies The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies Addressing complex scientific challenges requires a roadmap of data from diverse sources, organisms, contexts, formats, and granularities.