Feel free to forward this announcement [2nd Announcement] Registration is now open. Deadline to submit an abstract is April 30.
Please register through the ISMB 2002 (www.ismb02.org) website. BOSC registration is part of the SIG selection. A keynote speaker has been added. Dr. Michael Eisen will be delivering a keynote address at BOSC2002 in addition to Drs. Ewan Birney and Winston Hide. Please see the BOSC website for more information (http://bosc.open-bio.org). 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 keynotes by: Dr. Michael Eisen of LBNL and UC Berkeley, Dr. Winston Hide of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, Dr. Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Additionally presenters from a collection of Open Bioinformatics supported projects including Bioperl, Biopython, BioJava, BioSQL and OBDA, EMBOSS, BioMoby, Open Source Author's Contract, and others 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
