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Editorial
. 2022 Sep 12:11:1034.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.125043.1. eCollection 2022.

BOSC 2022: the first hybrid and 23rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Nomi L Harris  1 , Karsten Hokamp  2 , Hervé Ménager  3 , Monica Munoz-Torres  4 , Deepak Unni  5 , Nicole Vasilevsky  4 , Jason Williams  6
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Editorial

BOSC 2022: the first hybrid and 23rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Nomi L Harris et al. F1000Res. .

Abstract

The 23 rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2022) was part of this year's conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB). Launched in 2000 and held every year since, BOSC is the premier meeting covering open source bioinformatics and open science. ISMB 2022 was, for the first time, a hybrid conference, with the in-person component hosted in Madison, Wisconsin (USA). About 1000 people attended ISMB 2022 in person, with another 800 online. Approximately 200 people participated in BOSC sessions, which included 28 talks chosen from submitted abstracts, 46 posters, and a panel discussion, "Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities". BOSC 2022 included joint keynotes with two other COSIs. Jason Williams gave a BOSC / Education COSI keynote entitled "Riding the bicycle: Including all scientists on a path to excellence". A joint session with Bio-Ontologies featured a keynote by Melissa Haendel, "The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies."

Keywords: Equity and Inclusion; bioinformatics; open source; open science; Diversity.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: BOSC 2022 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.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Some of the BOSC organizers (Nicole Vasilevsky, Nomi Harris, and Monica Munoz-Torres) with OBF Secretary Chris Fields.
Other BOSC organizing committee members not shown: Jason Williams, Deepak Unni, Hervé Ménager, Karsten Hokamp. Shared under a CC-BY-SA license.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. BOSC participants Scott Cain and Drew Hasley chatted while Drew’s service dog, Shade, rested at his feet.
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Figure 3.
Figure 3.. BOSC 2022 keynotes and panelists.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. Keynote speaker Jason Williams discussed the “bicycle principles” for bioinformatics short-format training in a joint BOSC/Education COSI talk.
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Figure 5.
Figure 5.. In a joint BOSC/Bio-Ontologies session, keynote speaker Melissa Haendel took attendees on a fast ride down the translational highway with the help of ontologies.
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Figure 6.
Figure 6.. Jason Williams moderating the panel on “Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities”.
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Figure 7.
Figure 7.. Matthew Gazzara and Farica Zhuang presented “A cloud based international community effort for reproducible benchmarking of genomic tools” during the Workflows session.
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Figure 8.
Figure 8.. Geraldine van der Auwera heroically compressed her 20-minute talk about deciphering WDL workflows into a 5-minute lightning presentation.
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Figure 9.
Figure 9.. Poster presenter Festus Nyasimi, who received an OBF Event Fellowship to help defray his expenses in attending ISMB/BOSC.
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Figure 10.
Figure 10.. Some of the in-person CoFest 2022 participants working together at the Madison Public Library.
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