[Gmod-help] Fwd: Last chance to submit your abstract to BOSC!

Thu Apr 15 12:14:00 EDT 2010

Dave, would you mind posting this message for me?  Thanks!
	Nomi

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> Subject: Last chance to submit your abstract to BOSC!
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> From: Nomi Harris <nlharris at gmail.com>
> Date: April 15, 2010 9:12:29 AM PDT
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> Cc: Nomi Harris <nlharris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Last chance to submit your abstract to BOSC!
>
>
> Call for Abstracts for the 11th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source  
> Conference (BOSC 2010)
>
> An ISMB 2010 Special Interest Group (SIG)
> Date: July 9-10, 2010
> Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
> BOSC 2010 web site: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2010
> Abstract submission via Open Conference System site:  http://events.open-bio.org/BOSC2010/openconf.php
> E-mail: bosc at open-bio.org
> Bosc-announce list:  http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce
>
> Important Dates
> April 15: Abstract deadline
> May 5:  Notification of accepted abstracts
> May 28: Early Registration Discount Cut-off date
> July 8-9:  Codefest 2010
> July 9-10: BOSC 2010
> August 15:  Manuscript deadline for BOSC 2010 Proceedings published  
> in BMC Bioinformatics
>
> 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. To be  
> considered for acceptance, software systems representing the central  
> topic in a presentation submitted to BOSC must be licensed with a  
> recognized Open Source License, and be freely available for download  
> in source code form.
>
> We have some exciting things planned this year, including:
>
> -- Codefest 2010 programming session for the two days preceeding  
> BOSC:  See http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2010 for details.
>
> -- OpenBio Solution Challenge:  See session description below and http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/SolutionChallenge 
>  for details.
>
> -- Student Travel Fellowships:  Through generous sponsorship from  
> Eagle Genomics and an anonymous donor, we are pleased to announce  
> the competition for three Student Travel Awards for BOSC 2010. Each  
> winner will be awarded $250 to defray the costs of travel to BOSC  
> 2010.  See http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2010#Student_Travel_Awards 
>  for details.
>
> -- First-ever BOSC Proceedings will be published in the Open Access  
> journal, BMC Bioinformatics.  Manuscripts will be due after BOSC on  
> August 15.  See http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2010#First-ever_Published_BOSC_Proceedings 
>  for details.
>
> -- Sessions on approaches to analyzing high-throughput 'omics data,  
> cloud-based approaches to improving software and data accessibility,  
> the semantic web in open source bioinformatics, see below:
>
> We invite abstracts for talks at the following sessions:
>
> OpenBio SolutionChallenge -- Bioinformatics library providers:  
> please join us in a friendly competition to solve a shared  
> biological problem, demonstrating the utility of your toolkit  
> alongside other developers. Instead of the traditional Bio* updates  
> that we've had at previous conferences, this year, we're planning to  
> organize these talks around a central theme: the OpenBio Solution  
> Challenge. We start with a biological question of general interest,  
> and the project talks will focus around how you would solve that  
> problem using your toolkit and programming language. This is meant  
> to provide a challenge for OpenBio contributors, a nice tutorial  
> style overview of various projects and approaches for other  
> programmers, and a fun opportunity to compete and learn from other  
> projects. Conference attendees will vote on their favorite solution,  
> with the winner receiving fame and fortune (warning: fortune not  
> guaranteed). Specific challenges are being discussed on the  
> SolutionChallenge page and through the various Bio* mailing lists.  
> Alternately, each project could highlight a challenge that they  
> particularly do well, focusing tutorial-style on how to solve a  
> particular problem.  (Of course, we would still welcome traditional  
> Bio* Update abstracts, too!)
>
> Approaches to analyzing high-throughput 'omics data -- Presentation  
> of projects that use the MapReduce framework either for parallelized  
> analysis of possibly terabyte size data sets from next-gen  
> sequencing and mass spec proteomics or parallelization of  
> bioinformatics algorithms in general (e.g., the Apache Mahout  
> project). Projects may involve Hadoop (MapReduce API + HDFS) as well  
> as associated open source toolkits (Hbase, Hive, Pig, Cascading,  
> etc.) or other NoSQL non-relational data stores.
>
> Cloud-based approaches to improving software and data accessibility  
> -- The emergence of cloud computing has made highly scalable cluster  
> computing available to computational biologists. Services such as  
> Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud combined with publicly available  
> datasets promise to lower the overhead to participate in large scale  
> data analyses. We are interested in talks focused around how the  
> community can build up resources and datasets for cloud  
> infrastructure, as well as the sharing of insights, and the  
> contribution of implemented workflows. Current implementations and  
> initiatives are encouraged to submit abstracts for talks and join in  
> the pre-conference Codefest session.
>
> The Semantic Web in open source bioinformatics -- Emerging Semantic  
> Web technologies promise to improve data interoperability and  
> accessibility. Seeing these developments as promising for life  
> science researchers who struggle daily with new file formats and  
> incompatible datasets, BioHackathon 2010 focused around current  
> semantic resources and tools for bioinformatics. We solicit session  
> talks from researchers using RDF and related technologies in their  
> research and data analyses, with a special focus on documenting how  
> these tools can contribute to open data access.
>
> Open Source Software -- Open source software that does not fit  
> neatly into the above categories.
>
> Lightning Talks -- short, 5 minute talks intended to introduce very  
> recent developments, initiate discussion, or highlight resources of  
> interest to BOSC attendees. Abstracts for Lightning Talks will be  
> accepted up to the first day of BOSC and will be accepted based on  
> space availability and conformance to the Open Source License  
> Requirement.
>
> BOSC 2010 Organizing Committee:
> Kam D. Dahlquist (Chair), Brad Chapman, Nomi Harris, Michael Heuer,  
> Darin London, Steffen Möller, Anton Nekrutenko, Jim Procter, Ron  
> Taylor, Chris Dagdigian, Hilmar Lapp, Jason Stajich
>
>
>

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