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From: Darin London <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 18, 2008 2:23:26 PM GMT-04:00
To: Arek Kasprzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BOSC 2008 Announcement and Call for Submissions
Hi Arek,
Would you mind forwarding the announcement for BOSC 2008 to mart-dev?
BOSC 2008 Call for Abstracts
The 9th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2008)
will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as one of several
Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with
the 16th annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference
(ISMB 2008).
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is sponsored by the
Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), a non-profit group dedicated
to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software
development within the biological research community. Many Open
Source bioinformatics packages are widely used by the research
community across many application areas and form a cornerstone in
enabling research in the genomic and post-genomic era. Open source
bioinformatics software has facilitated rapid innovation and
dissemination of new computational methods as well as informatics
infrastructure. Since the work of the Open Source Bioinformatics
Community represents some of the most cutting edge of Bioinformatics
in general, the overall theme for the conference this year is
"Tackling Hard Problems with Emerging Technologies". Topics under
this umbrella include cyberinfrastructure, grid computing and
workflow management and discovery, and visualization. We will also
have a series of update talks about the main Open Source
Bioinformatics Software suites.
One of the hallmarks of BOSC is the coming together of the open
source developer community in one location. A face-to-face meeting
of this community creates synergy where participants can work
together to create use cases, prototype working code, or run
bootcamps for developers from other projects as short, informal, and
hands-on tutorials in new software packages and emerging
technologies. In short, BOSC is not just a conference for
presentations of completed work, but is a dynamic meeting where
collaborative work gets done.
This year, BOSC is accepting abstract submissions on the conference
theme "Tackling Hard Problems with Emerging Technologies". The
conference theme reflects that there are new technologies emerging
on both the scientific front (new sequencing technologies, etc.) and
the IT front (workflows, mashup/web 2.0, improvements in all of the
major programming languages, etc.), which may allow the open source
community to solve problems that were previously intractable.
Abstracts may be submitted for the following topics.
1. Cyberinfrastructure - We are interested in presentations on
topics dealing with the development of infrastructure on the web to
facilitate software and data re-use (mashups, or traditional),
interoperability and inter-process communication, system/service
discovery, and data movement and modeling in distributed systems.
This may include peer-to-peer systems of data transfer, Web
Services, various flavors of data representation (SOAP, JSON, XML,
others), and technologies commonly referred to under the Web 2.0
paradigm (e.g. folksonomies/tagging, user-based content generation,
content feeds, and Social Networking).
2. Grid Computing and Workflow Management and Discovery - We
particularly invite talks that report progress in making workflow
systems easier to use and on how to do distributed-collaborative
research , e.g. workflows that encompass the coordination of systems
running in different parts of the world.
3. Visualization - Visualization is a maturing area of open source
software development. We particularly invite talks that demonstrate
innovative visualization systems in the context of workflows.
4. Open Source Software - Speakers will present talks on the use,
development, or philosophy of open source software in bioinformatics.
5. Bio* Open Source Project Updates - We invite abstracts from the
representatives of the open source projects sponsored by or
affiliated to the O|B|F (see Projects).
Please consult the official BOSC 2008 website at http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Upcoming_BOSC_conference
for all updates and extra information.
Submission Process:
All abstracts must be submitted through our Open Conference Systems
site (http://events.open-bio.org/BOSC2008/openconf.php).
The form will ask for a short, 50 word Abstract to be pasted into
it, and a full abstract to be uploaded as a file.
The small Abstract text should be a summary, while the longer
abstract should provide more details, including the open-source
license requirement details.
Full-length abstracts are limited to one page with one inch (2.5 cm)
margins on the top, sides, and bottom. The full-length abstract
should include the title, authors, and affiliations. We prefer your
abstract to be in PDF format, although plain text will also be
accepted.
Important Dates:
May 11: Abstract submission deadline.
June 2: Notification of accepted talks.
June 4: Early registration discount cut-off.
July 18-19: BOSC 2008!
We hope to see you at BOSC 2008!
Kam Dahlquist and Darin London
BOSC 2008 Co-organizers
