| Bioinformatics Open Source Conference | |
| Prev: | BOSC 2022 |
| Next: | BOSC 2023 |
| Frequency: | Annually |
| Location: | Madison, United States (2022) |
| Attendance: | ~100 |
| Organised: | Nomi L. Harris, Karsten Hokamp (2021 chairs)[1] |
| Member: | Open Bioinformatics Foundation |
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is an academic conference on open-source programming and other open science practices in bioinformatics, organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The conference has been held annually since 2000 and is run as a two-day meeting either within Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference or as a joint conference with the Galaxy community.
The conference is held as a single track consisting of presentations, poster sessions and two keynote talks by people of influence in open-source bioinformatics.[2]
Since 2010, an informal two-day "CollaborationFest" (formerly Codefest) has been held directly preceding the conference.[3] [4]
National Institutes of Health Associate Director for Data Science Philip Bourne and C. Titus Brown gave keynote talks at BOSC 2014.[5]
BOSC 2016 was organized in Orlando, Florida from July 8–9 before the main ISMB conference.[6]
In 2018 and 2020, BOSC partnered with Galaxy to organize two joint conferences called GCCBOSC and Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC) respectively.[7] The event in 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon.[8] The BCC in 2020 took place online with two time schedules for eastern/western time zones[9]
Since 2021, BOSC has been taking place within the ISMB conferences again. In 2023 BOSC took place in Lyon, France between July 24-28 as part of the ISMB/ECCB conference.
As of January 2024, there have been 24 BOSC held around the world, of those 20 were purely in-person conferences, 2 purely remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic and one that was organized as a hybrid meeting.[10]
| 2023 | ISMB | Lyon, France | Joseph M. Yracheta, Sara El-Gebali | |
| 2022 | ISMB | Hybrid: Madison, WI and online | Jason Williams, Melissa Haendel | |
| 2021 | ISMB | Online (would have been Lyon) | Christie Bahlai, Lara Mangravite, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou | |
| 2020 | GCC | Online (would have been Toronto) | Lincoln Stein, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes | |
| 2019 | ISMB | Basel, Switzerland | Nicola Mulder | |
| 2018 | GCC | Portland, OR | Fernando Pérez, Tracy Teal | |
| 2017 | ISMB | Prague, Czech Republic | Mad Price Ball, Nick Loman | |
| 2016 | ISMB | Orlando, FL | Jennifer Gardy, Steven Salzberg | |
| 2015 | ISMB | Dublin, Ireland | Ewan Birney, Holly Bik | |
| 2014 | ISMB | Boston, MA | Philip Bourne, Titus Brown | |
| 2013 | ISMB | Berlin, Germany | Sean Eddy, Cameron Neylon | |
| 2012 | ISMB | Long Beach, CA | Jonathan Eisen, Carole Goble | |
| 2011 | ISMB | Vienna, Austria | Lawrence Hunter, Matt Wood | |
| 2010 | ISMB | Boston, MA | Guy Coates, Ross Gardler | |
| 2009 | ISMB | Stockholm, Sweden | Robert Hanmer, Alan Ruttenberg | |
| 2008 | ISMB | Toronto, Canada | Julian Lombardi | |
| 2007 | ISMB | Vienna, Austria | Carole Goble | |
| 2006 | ISMB | Fortaleza, Brasil | Amos Bairoch, Alberto M.R. Davila | |
| 2005 | ISMB | Detroit, MI | Hilmar Lapp | |
| 2004 | ISMB | Glasgow, Scotland | Wolfgang Huber | |
| 2003 | ISMB | Brisbane, Australia | - | |
| 2002 | ISMB | Edmonton, Canada | Ewan Birney, Michael Eisen, Winston Hide | |
| 2001 | ISMB | Copenhagen, Denmark | Steven Brenner | |
| 2000 | ISMB | San Diego, CA | Tim O'Reilly, Lincoln Stein |