Sierra Moxon to speak about “LinkML: an open data modeling framework, grounded with ontologies” [If you missed the webinar, the video is here and the slides are here.] ISCBacademy is a series of free webinars sponsored by the International Society for Computational Biology. They are open to all, including those who are not ISCB members.

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.

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility (also known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DEI) are a major part of OBF and BOSC’s mission and core values. Below are some of the ways we have worked to promote DEI at OBF, BOSC, ISMB (the host conference for BOSC) and in the broader open bioinformatics community.

The 24th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2023, took place as part of ISMB/ECCB 2023 in Lyon, France, and online. ISMB/ECCB attracted a near-record number of attendees, with over 2100 in person and  about 900 more online. Most of the BOSC organizing committee (missing: Jessica Maia and Chris Fields)A full room at BOSC 2023 The opening session of BOSC kicked off with a welcome from chair Nomi Harris.

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.

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility (also known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DEI) are a major part of BOSC’s mission and core values, and we pursue these goals in multiple ways. BOSC 2022, for example, included a panel on Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities, with panelists who not only were experts on the topic but also themselves belong to various groups that are typically underrepresented in our community.

The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2023, round 2, is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 August 2023 . Applications should be submitted via this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.

Sponsoring BOSC BOSC 2023 Platinum Sponsor BOSC 2023 Silver Sponsors If you’re interested in sponsoring BOSC 2023, please contact us at bosc@open-bio.org! Sponsorships from companies and organizations help to defray some of our costs and enable us to offer registration fee waivers for some conference participants.

BOSC 2023 Panel: Open and Ethical Data Sharing As a conference that promotes open source and open science, we are big proponents of open data. We love to hear about tools and frameworks (such as FAIR) that promote data sharing and reuse.

This is the schedule for BOSC 2023 Go to full lists of the 2023 talks and posters BOSC 2023 Keynotes: Sara El-Gebali: A New Odyssey: Pioneering the Future of Scientific Progress Through Open Collaboration Joseph Yracheta: The Dissonance between Scientific Altruism &