BOSC 2024 dates: July 15-16, as part of ISMB 2024 Location: Montréal, Canada, and virtual Website: https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/ Key Dates April 19: Abstract submission deadline (for talks and posters) (11:59 p.m. Any Time Zone) May 13: Talk/poster acceptance notifications May 20: Late poster abstract submission deadline July 12-16: ISMB (BOSC will be the last 2 days) 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, longer and shorter (lightning) talks from submitted abstracts, posters, panel discussion, Birds of a Feather, and more! This year's special theme is open approaches to AI/ML in bioinformatics; we are planning a joint panel with the MLCSB COSI! Our keynote speakers will be Mélanie Courtot and Andrew Su. We hope you'll join us for our 25th anniversary this July in Montréal (or online)! 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 Inclusion, Outreach and Training AI/ML: Open Approaches Submit an abstract! Abstract submission is now open! (https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2024/submit) 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 (linked from our submission page). Note that ISMB requires a short ( < 250 words) text-only abstract for all submissions (talk or poster), plus a "long abstract" (PDF, 2 pages max) if you want to be considered for a talk. Please see our submission page for more information. New ISMB rule this year: a presenting author may only present ONE talk or poster. If you want to present your work as both a talk and a poster, you have to do a separate poster submission with a different presenting author. We hope to see you (in person or virtually) at BOSC 2024! Sincerely, BOSC 2024 Organizing Committee (Nomi Harris, Karsten Hokamp, Swapnil Sawant, Hervé Ménager, Monica Munoz-Torres, Deepak Unni, Jason Williams, Chris Fields, Jessica Maia) BOSC Outreach & Social Media: Mailing list (low-traffic, announcements only): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14344023/ Mastodon: https://genomic.social/@BOSC Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bosc.bsky.social Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew Monica Munoz-Torres (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)