The SSI is delighted to announce that we are silver sponsors of BOSC 2023, the 24th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference. This year's edition will take place July 24-25 as part of ISMB/ECCB 2023 in Lyon, France and online. It will include keynote talks delivered by Sara El-Gebali (SciLifeLab-DataCentre-Sweden) and Joseph M. Yracheta (Native BioData Consortium) and a panel discussion about Open and Ethical Data Sharing.

Those interested in contributing have until Thursday 18 May to submit abstracts for consideration as a poster.

BOSC is usually preceded or followed by what is now called CollaborationFest (CoFest for short), a free two-day community development session. This is an opportunity for anyone interested in open science, biology and programming to meet, talk and work collaboratively. The 2023 CoFest, which will precede ISMB/ECCB 2023, will take place July 22-23 and will be hybrid (online + in person at ENS Lyon, France). Please add yourself to this spreadsheet if you would like to participate, and join the #cofest channel in the BOSC Slack.

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has been held annually since 2000. It is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community.

Since its inception in 2000, BOSC has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics. BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results and software; and ways to grow open source communities while promoting diversity within them.