BOSC 2025 dates: July 21-22, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2025 Location: Liverpool, UK, and virtual Website: https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2025 Key Dates April 17: Deadline for submitting talk/poster abstracts May 13: Talk/poster acceptance notifications May 15: Deadline for submitting late poster abstracts July 20-24: ISMB/ECCB 2025 July 21-22: BOSC 2025 July 23-24: ISMB CollaborationFest About BOSC Since 2000, BOSC has provided a forum for sharing ideas and results in open-source bioinformatics and open science. Our annual two-day program includes keynote talks, talks chosen from submitted abstracts, posters, a panel discussion, and more! BOSC 2025 will include a joint session with the newly renamed Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR) COSI. Learn more at https://www.open-bio.org/2025/03/17/BOSC-BOKR-2025 Our panel topic this year will be Data Sustainability. A range of experts will share their thoughts on this important and timely subject and take questions from the audience. This year, our popular collaborative work event, CollaborationFest ( https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2025/ismb-collaborationfest-2025/), will be part of ISMB. Choose it as a free "add-on" when you register for ISMB. Submit an abstract! Abstract submission is open until April 17 (end of the day, "anywhere on Earth"). We encourage you to submit abstracts on any topic relevant to open source bioinformatics or open science. After review, some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks, longer talks, or posters. Abstract submission is via ISMB's EasyChair, which is linked from our submission page at https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2025/submit. A short ( < 250 words) text-only abstract is required for all submissions (talk or poster), plus a "long abstract" (PDF, 2 pages max) if you want to be considered for a talk. BOSC topics include (but are not limited to): Open Science and Reproducible Research Open Biomedical Data Citizen/Participatory Science Standards and Interoperability Data Science Workflows Translational Bioinformatics Open Science Developer Tools and Libraries Outreach and Training AI/ML: Open Approaches Data Sustainability Knowledge Representation and Ontologies (for joint session with BOKR) Sponsors: We are thrilled to announce the first two sponsors of BOSC 2025 (with more coming soon)! Big thanks to these excellent organizations for supporting open source bioinformatics and enabling us to offer free registration to some qualified participants! Learn more at https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/sponsors/ Platinum sponsor: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The aim of CZI's Open Science program is the universal and immediate open sharing of all scientific knowledge, processes, and outputs. Learn more at https://chanzuckerberg.com/ Gold sponsor: Seqera. Developed by the creators of Nextflow, Sequera empowers researchers to develop and deploy scalable bioinformatics pipelines faster. Learn more at https://seqera.io Helpful links: Website: https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14344023/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bosc.bsky.social Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew We hope to see you, in person in Liverpool or virtually, at BOSC 2025! Sincerely, BOSC 2025 Organizing Committee - Nomi Harris, Karsten Hokamp, Jessica Maia, Hervé Ménager, Mónica Muñoz Torres, Tazro Ohta, Deepak Unni, Jason Williams. Monica Munoz Torres (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)