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== Conference Highlights ==
=== BOSC 2023 ===
The '''2023 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2023)''' was held on '''July 24–25, 2023''', drawing over '''2,100 in-person attendees''' and approximately '''900 online viewers'''. About '''200 participants''' actively engaged in the event's sessions and activities.<ref>{{cite web |title=BOSC 2023, the 24th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10704065/ |website=PubMed Central |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information|access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
=== Keynote Presentations ===
The keynote speakers were '''Sara El-Gebali''' and '''Joseph M. Yracheta'''.
* El-Gebali presented ''“A New Odyssey: Pioneering the Future of Scientific Progress Through Open Collaboration”''. Her talk explored navigating the realm of science through diverse alliances and institutions, with a focus on promoting open science through collaboration.
* Yracheta gave a talk titled ''“The Dissonance between Scientific Altruism & Capitalist Extraction: The Zero Trust and Federated Data Sovereignty Solution”'', offering insights from the American Indian perspective in the United States. He critiqued the lack of clarity and transparency in current Open Data policies, arguing they tend to prioritize funding and researcher data rights over individual privacy.
=== Open and Ethical Data Sharing Panel ===
[[File:BOSC2023 Open Data Panel.jpg|thumb|Panelists at the BOSC 2023 discussion on Open and Ethical Data Sharing: Verena Ras, Sara El-Gebali, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, and Joseph M. Yracheta.]]
In addition to the keynotes, BOSC 2023 hosted a panel on '''Open and Ethical Data Sharing''', featuring keynote speakers El-Gebali and Yracheta along with '''Verena Ras''' and '''Bastian Greshake Tzovaras'''. The panel addressed the absence of a formal ethical code for bioinformaticians and emphasized the need for stronger advocacy in ethical data sharing practices.
=== Topical Sessions and Posters ===
[[File:BOSC2023 Poster.jpg|thumb|A participant presenting the poster BioThings Explorer: A query engine for a federated knowledge graph of biomedical APIs]]
BOSC also featured a topical session comprising '''53 talks''', with '''49 presenters displaying posters'''. Topics included, but were not limited to:
* Open Science and Reproducible Research
* Open Biomedical Data
* Citizen/Participatory Science
* Standards and Interoperability
* Data Science, Workflows, Data Access and Visualization
* Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics
* Developer Tools and Libraries
* Inclusion, Outreach and Training
<ref>{{cite web |title=BOSC 2023: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference |url=https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2023/|website=BOSC 2023 |publisher=Open Bioinformatics Foundation|access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>
=== BOSC 2022 ===
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