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BOSC 2002 Announcement and call for abstracts for talks and posters -------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcing the 3rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2002. BOSC is organised by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (http://www.open-bio.org). This year it will be held in Edmonton, Canada, August 1-2 and includes full talks, lightning talks, birds-of-a-feather sessions, mini-tutorials, and more. The conference will cover a range of topics from open source software development to bioinformatics infrastructure to cutting edge applications of open source software in the field of bioinformatics. The conference will feature at least two keynote speakers: Winston Hide of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute and Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Additionally presenters from a collection of Open Bioinformatics supported projects will present summaries of their projects and practical examples of their tools in action. Registration will open on April 8th and will be through the ISMB 2002 website (http://www.ismb02.org). We also encourage anyone working on interesting biological software who would like to share their progress with the community to submit an abstract to give a short talk or poster at the conference. If you are interested in presenting a talk or poster please send your abstract to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the schedule below for submission deadlines. All accepted abstracts will be published online on the conference website. You need to provide: - an abstract (no more than a few paragraphs); - a URL for the project page, if applicable; - if it is about your software, information about the open source license used or your release plans. Abstracts can be submitted in plain text, HTML, or as an URL. Proprietary formats (such as Word) will be rejected outright. ISMB/BOSC Registration opens April 8 BOSC talk abstract submission deadline April 30 Authors notified May 15 BOSC registration deadline July 7 BOSC poster abstract submission deadline July 7 BOSC starts Aug 1 9:00 BOSC ends Aug 2 17:00 Tutorial day ISMB Aug 3 ISMB begins Aug 4-7 Registration fees will be as follows: Student/Postdoc : USD $110 Academic/Government/ NonProfit affiliation: USD $130 Industry : USD $150 For more information about BOSC, please visit http://bosc.open-bio.org/ -- Jason Stajich Duke University [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bosc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
