BOSC 2019, the 20th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Journal Article · 19 December 2019 · F1000Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.21568.1 · OSTI ID:1629568

Harris, Nomi L.  ^[1]; Cock, Peter J. A.  ^[2]; Fields, Christopher J.  ^[3]; Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian  ^[4]; Heuer, Michael  ^[5]; Hokamp, Karsten  ^[6]; Munoz-Torres, Monica ^[7]; Peltzer, Alexander  ^[8]; Rieck, Bastian  ^[9]; Wiencko, Heather ^[10]; Yehudi, Yo  ^[11]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
2. James Hutton Inst., Dundee (United Kingdom). Information and Computational Sciences
3. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Carver Biotechnology Center
4. Univ. of Paris (France). Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity
5. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
6. Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). Smurfit Inst. of Genetics
7. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States). Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
8. Univ. of Tubingen (Germany). Quantitative Biology Center
9. Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland). Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab
10. Open Bioinformatics Foundation, Dublin (Ireland)
11. Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Dept. of Genetics

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.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1629568
• Journal Information: F1000Research, Journal Name: F1000Research Vol. 8; ISSN 2046-1402
• Publisher: F1000ResearchCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English