BOSC 2019, the 20th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Nomi L Harris; Peter J A Cock; Christopher J Fields; Bastian Greshake Tzovaras; Michael Heuer; Karsten Hokamp; Monica Munoz-Torres; Alexander Peltzer; Bastian Rieck; Heather Wiencko; Yo Yehudi

doi:10.12688/f1000research.21568.1

BOSC 2019, the 20th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

F1000Res. 2019 Dec 20:8:ISCB Comm J-2132. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.21568.1. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
² Information and Computational Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK.
³ Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
⁴ Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁵ University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
⁶ Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁷ Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA.
⁸ Quantitative Biology Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72074, Germany.
⁹ Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Open Bioinformatics Foundation, Dublin, Ireland.
¹¹ Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK.

Abstract

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference is a volunteer-organized meeting that covers open source software development and open science in bioinformatics. Launched in 2000, BOSC has been held every year since. BOSC 2019, the 20th annual BOSC, took place as one of the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology meeting (ISMB/ECCB 2019). The two-day meeting included a total of 46 talks and 55 posters, as well as eight Birds of a Feather interest groups. The keynote speaker was University of Cape Town professor Dr. Nicola Mulder, who spoke on "Building infrastructure for responsible open science in Africa". Immediately after BOSC 2019, about 50 people participated in the two-day CollaborationFest (CoFest for short), an open and free community-driven event at which participants work together to contribute to bioinformatics software, documentation, training materials, and use cases.

Keywords: bioinformatics; conference; open science; open source.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Computational Biology*
Congresses as Topic
Software*
Workflow

Grants and funding

The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work.