Nomi Harris

Submissions to BOSC are via ISMB's submission portal. ISMB is run by ISCB (confused yet? 😜). Therefore, BOSC submissions close when ISMB submissions close: April 9, AoE (explained below).

Call for Comments on BOSC 2026 Keynote Speaker Candidates We thank our community for the excellent keynote speaker suggestions for BOSC 2026. The next phase of our selection process invites you to share any concerns about the suitability of the nominated ind...

Call for Comments on BOSC 2026 Keynote Speaker Candidates

We appreciate the excellent keynote speaker suggestions for #BOSC2026. We invite you to anonymously share any concerns about the suitability of the nominated individuals by Friday Jan 9. www.open-bio.org/2025/12/18/2...

BOSC 2025 organizing committee

Save the date: #BOSC2026 (www.open-bio.org/events/bosc) will take place July 13-14 in Washington, DC, as part of ISMB 2026 (July 12-16). We hope you will join us in person or online! 🍐
#Bioinformatics #OpenSource

BOSC 2025 keynote speaker Chris Mungall

BOSC 2025 keynote speaker Christine Orengo

Keynote talks are always a highlight of BOSC. We invite you, our community, to nominate potential keynote speakers for #BOSC2026! 🍐

www.open-bio.org/2025/12/02/2...

Chris Mungall giving keynote talk at #BOSC2025

Videos of the #BOSC2025 talks are now available on our schedule page (scroll down to Talks), as well as on our YouTube channel. Enjoy! 🍐
Schedule page: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@OBFBOSC/vid...
#Bioinformatics #OpenSource

F1000Research Article: BOSC 2025, the 26th Bioinformatics Open Source Conference. Read the latest article version by Nomi L. Harris, Karsten Hokamp, Jessica Maia, Hervé Ménager, Monia C Munoz-Torres, Tazro Ohta, Deepak Unni, Jason Williams, at F1000Research.

Check out our #BOSC2025 report on @f1000publishing.bsky.social (It includes lots of pictures!) 🍐

f1000research.com/articles/14-...

Scott Edmunds cuts the cake at the 2025 GigaScience birthday party at ISMB/ECCB 2025

An open letter about the recent cuts at GigaScience: www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2...
(open for signatures until the end of October)

#OpenScience #OpenData #GigaScience

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I do this too.

rBio: Reasoning Model Trained on Virtual Cell Simulations Scientists can ask complex biological questions in plain language and get predictions about gene interactions.

Very exciting to see the research from @cziscience.bsky.social on the rBio distilling a black box foundation model (in this case a "virtual cell" perturbation model) into a smaller reasoner LLM. And it uses ontologies as part of RL! chanzuckerberg.com/blog/rbio-re...

BOSC chair Nomi Harris

During the #BOSC2025 closing remarks, chair @nomiharris.bsky.social thanked the BOSC sponsors (@cziscience.bsky.social @seqera.io @gigascience.bsky.social) for covering registration for 12 BOSC presenters.

BOSC review and organizing committee members

At the end of #BOSC2025, the organizing committee was joined on stage by the review committee members who were able to go to Liverpool.

Part of the audience at #BOSC2025

An attentive audience at #BOSC2025

A few shots of the #BOSC2025 panelists discussing their thoughts on data sustainability. Panelists were @scedmunds.bsky.social, @cmungall.bsky.social, @varsha-khodiyar.bsky.social, Tony Burdett, and Nicky Mulder; the moderator was @monimunozto.bsky.social

@proflhunter.bsky.social makes a point during a Q&A at #BOSC2025, while continuing to show off his #BOSC2024 socks

We encourage those who presented at #BOSC2025 to add their slides and/or poster to the BOSC collection at F1000: f1000research.com/collections/bosc

Just as Chris launched into the topic of knowledge censorship, the AI transcription and the slides stopped working. Coincidence?? 🤔 #BOSC2025

Panelists on stage

Fantastic #BOSC2025 panel on data sustainability to cap off the conference. #ISMBECCB2025

Quick shout out for the Make Data Count challenge to improve data citation from @gigascience.bsky.social's Scott Edmunds. Looks cool and 💲prizes! #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Closing session at #BOSC2025, Guy Cochrane talking about the Global Biodata Infrastructure, hopefully framing things for the sustainability panel (which our EiC @scedmunds.bsky.social is participating in #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025

Guy ending his talk telling the #BOSC2025 audience if they value global data infrastructure sign their open letter globalbiodata.org/open-letter-... #ISMBECCB2025

The O3 guidelines: open data, open code, and open infrastructure for sustainable curated scientific resources - Scientific Data Curated resources that support scientific research often go out of date or become inaccessible. This can happen for several reasons including lack of continuing funding, the departure of key personnel...

Keeping a data resource alive is a huge challenge. Lots of different guidelines being discussed in the #BOSC2025 panel for data resources including the O3 guidelines #ISMBECCB2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Room at BOSC/BOKR keynote

A full room during @cmungall.bsky.social's #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 keynote talk at #ISMBECCB2025

Damien Goutte-Gattat

Damien Goutte-Gattat gave a thought-provoking talk about how to deal with ontology censorship. #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

In case you missed our daily recaps for the first two days of the conference, you can find them posted on our society announcements page! 

Access it here: https://www.iscb.org/iscb-news-items

Helen Parkinson and Susheel Varma

Helen Parkinson and Susheel Varma at the #BOSC2025 poster session

Harry Caufield

Harry Caufield (@severaltimes.bsky.social) giving a BioPortal update at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025. You can try out BioPortal at bioportal.bioontology.org

Jessica and Nomi holding pears

The #ISMBECCB2025 lunch today included our favorite fruit! 🍐 #BOSC2025

Jessica Maia

Jessica Maia introduces the AI/ML session at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

Chris Mungall

As he begins his #BOSC2025 / @bokr.bsky.social keynote, @cmungall.bsky.social mentions that he worked on #Bioperl in the distant past. #ISMBECCB2025