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

[Dave Clements]

Hi Nomi,

I just saw this.  (Been dealing with a sick daughter until now).  I'll post
it to GMOD-devel now, although it's probably too late in the day.

Dave C.


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Nomi Harris <nlharris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave, would you mind posting this message for me?  Thanks!
> Nomi
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *gmod-announce-owner at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Date: *April 15, 2010 9:12:43 AM PDT
> *To: *nlharris at gmail.com
> *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
> *To: *Gmod-announce at lists.sourceforge.net
> *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_Proceedingsfor 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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