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Editorial
. 2021 Oct 18:10:ISCB Comm J-1054.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.74074.1. eCollection 2021.

BOSC 2021, the 22nd Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Nomi L Harris  1 , Peter J A Cock  2 , Christopher J Fields  3 , Karsten Hokamp  4 , Jessica Maia  5 , Monica Munoz-Torres  6 , Malvika Sharan  7 , Jason Williams  8
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Editorial

BOSC 2021, the 22nd Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Nomi L Harris et al. F1000Res. .

Abstract

The 22nd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2021, open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/) was held online as a track of the 2021 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology / European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) conference. Launched in 2000 and held every year since, BOSC is the premier meeting covering topics related to open source software and open science in bioinformatics. In 2020, BOSC partnered with the Galaxy Community Conference to form the Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020); that was the first BOSC to be held online. This year, BOSC returned to its roots as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021. As in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic made it impossible to hold the conference in person, so ISMB/ECCB 2021 took place as an online meeting attended by over 2000 people from 79 countries. Nearly 200 people participated in BOSC sessions, which included 27 talks reviewed and selected from submitted abstracts, and three invited keynote talks representing a range of global perspectives on the role of open science and open source in driving research and inclusivity in the biosciences, one of which was presented in French with English subtitles.

Keywords: bioinformatics; online conference; open science; open source.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: BOSC 2021 was supported in part by the sponsors mentioned in the Acknowledgements. However, this had no influence on abstract selection. Abstracts submitted by authors affiliated with sponsoring companies were subjected to the same peer-review process as other submitted abstracts, except for the designated sponsor talks, which were clearly labeled as such.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Locations of Bioinformatics Open Source Conference participants who received free registration to Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology 2021.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Keynote speaker Christie Bahlai is cheered on by moderator Jason Williams.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. Lara Mangravite was the keynote speaker in a joint Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) /Function Community of Special Interest (COSI) session.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. Keynote speaker Thomas Mboa answered questions from his office in Cameroon.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.. Session chair Jason Williams and some of the presenters in the Standards and Practices for Open Science session.
Figure 6.
Figure 6.. “Tools for Open Science” session chair Malvika Sharan moderates questions for presenter Sasha Zaranek.
Figure 7.
Figure 7.. Session chair Jessica Maia and some of the Analysis Tools presenters.
Figure 8.
Figure 8.. Session chair Monica Munoz-Torres and two of the Translational Bioinformatics session presenters.
Figure 9.
Figure 9.. Some of the attendees at one of the 2021 Birds of a Feather sessions.
Figure 10.
Figure 10.. The final BOSC 2021 online “happy hour”.
Figure 11.
Figure 11.. CoFest participants work to make EDAM even more useful to the broader community.
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