Time to think about submitting an abstract to #BOSC2026! The deadline for submitting talk/poster abstracts is April 9. (There is an additional late poster round that closes in May, but those late submissions won't be considered for talks.)
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#OpenSource #OpenScience
Monica Munoz Torres holds the BOSC 2025 poster
BOSC Chair Nomi Harris by the BOSC 2024 poster
#BOSC2026 is looking for sponsors!
Your sponsorship helps BOSC advance open-source bioinformatics and open science and broaden representation (www.open-bio.org/obf-dei/).
Info: open-bio.org/events/bosc/.... Please contact us for details about sponsorship levels and perks!
🎉 Researchers can now explore a foundational resource for data-driven healthcare solutions – and see how to access the data for personalized health studies.
The milestone is enabled by release of metadata for the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) Federated Clinical Routine Dataset. More👇
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).
07.01.2026 19:09 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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 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...
Today, a global community of hackers gathers in Berlin 🇩🇪 for the start of #BioHackEU25. Since 2019, over 2200 participants have gathered together for an intense week of collaboration to advance 275 projects.
Read the news: https://loom.ly/6sE_kdI
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
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
Help! I need curation. Our write up of Birthdays, BOSC, Beatles and Bioinformatics at ISMB2025 in Liverpool gigasciencejournal.com/blog/help-i-...
08.08.2025 06:44 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We're looking for talented people to help build a better Web for everyone - through open standards, open source technologies and community development. We're looking for two Senior Developers experienced with Semantic Web, Solid and digital identity standards.
buff.ly/8glhJA8
We encourage those who presented at #BOSC2025 to add their slides and/or poster to the BOSC collection at F1000: f1000research.com/collections/bosc
24.07.2025 11:30 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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
26.07.2025 18:56 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The #ismbeccb2025 CollaborationFest is starting 11:20. Come join us in room 2F near the coffee break lounge and hear all about our exciting projects! Thanks to @hmenager.bsky.social @dcgenomics.bsky.social @bosc.bsky.social
23.07.2025 10:08 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Robert Hoehndorf
Robert Hoehndorf (@leechuck.bsky.social) presenting AberOWL during #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025
22.07.2025 15:02 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Damien Goutte-Gattat
Damien Goutte-Gattat gave a thought-provoking talk about how to deal with ontology censorship. #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025
22.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Harry Caufield
Harry Caufield (@severaltimes.bsky.social) giving a BioPortal update at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025. You can try out BioPortal at bioportal.bioontology.org
22.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
@severaltimes.bsky.social talking about the BioPortal MCP at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 #ISMBECCB2025
22.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Jessica Maia
Jessica Maia introduces the AI/ML session at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025
22.07.2025 11:57 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Just as Chris launched into the topic of knowledge censorship, the AI transcription and the slides stopped working. Coincidence?? 🤔 #BOSC2025
22.07.2025 11:26 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Chris at the podium
Honored to open day two of #BOSC2025 and BOKR joint session at #ISMBECCB2025 introducing @cmungall.bsky.social as our opening keynote: Open Knowledge Bases in the Age of Generative AI
22.07.2025 10:33 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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
22.07.2025 10:43 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Very timely topics (unfortunately). #BOSC2025 is having a Data Sustainability panel today (July 22) at 16:40 in room 03A. Please join us! www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...
22.07.2025 08:42 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The team are ready to go at #ISMB2025, the flagship meeting of @iscb.bsky.social ✨
Come and find us at booth #25 for live demos of #Seqera Platform, and the chance to win a pair of custom-engraved I ❤️@nextflow.io AirPods!
My Oprah moment: giving out #BOSC2025 / @seqera.io socks to the BOSC participants! You get a pair, and you get a pear 🍐
21.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0#BOSC2025 is about to begin! 🍐 What are you presenting? What are you watching? Post about it here and tag with #BOSC2025!
21.07.2025 08:45 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
From Technology to Treatment: Advancing Precision Medicine
August 28 and 29, we’ll gather in Zurich to help close the gap between cutting-edge technology and real-world healthcare solutions
Join us in shaping the next chapter of precision medicine
👉🏼 www.sfa-phrt.ch/events
@ethz.ch
Don’t forget to submit your abstract to the Late Poster round at #BOSC2025! The submission deadline is the end of the day *tomorrow*, May 15 (Anywhere on Earth). 🍐
www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...
