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.)
www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...
#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!
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 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
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.
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
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
