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{{Infobox recurring event

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| next = BOSC 2023

| frequency = Annually

| ___location = [[Madison,_Wisconsin Wisconsin|Madison]], United States (2022)

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The '''Bioinformatics Open Source Conference''' ('''BOSC''') is an [[academic conference]] on [[Open source|open-source]] programming and other [[open science]] practices in [[bioinformatics]], organised by the [[Open Bioinformatics Foundation]]. The conference has been held annually since 2000 and is run as a two-day meeting either within [[Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology]] (ISMB) conference or as a joint conference with the [[Galaxy_Galaxy (computational_biologycomputational biology)|Galaxy]] community.

== Program ==

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BOSC 2016 was organized in [[Orlando, Florida]] from July 8–9 before the main ISMB conference.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2016|title=BOSC 2016 – Open Bioinformatics Foundation|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Open Bio|access-date=}}</ref>

In 2018 and 2020, BOSC partnered with [[Galaxy_Galaxy (computational_biologycomputational biology)|Galaxy]] to organize two joint conferences called ''GCCBOSC'' and ''Bioinformatics Community Conference'' (BCC) respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/about/#Past_BOSCs|title=About BOSC - Open Bioinformatics Foundation|accessdate=November 22, 2022}}</ref> The event in 2018 was held in [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.open-bio.org/2018/07/27/gccbosc-2018-post-meeting-report/|title=GCCBOSC 2018 - Open Bioinformatics Foundation|accessdate=November 22, 2022}}</ref> The BCC in 2020 took place online with two time schedules for eastern/western time zones<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bcc2020.github.io/|title=Bioinformatics Community Conference|accessdate=November 22, 2022}}</ref>

Since 2021, BOSC has been taking place within the ISMB conferences again. In 2023 BOSC took place in [[Lyon]], France between July 24-2824–28 as part of the ISMB/[[European_Conference_on_Computational_BiologyEuropean Conference on Computational Biology|ECCB]] conference.

==BOSC 2024==

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The conference was held in a hybrid setting, with around 200 live attendees and the rest watching live. The conference covered a wide variety of topics, with the main theme focusing on approaches to using [[Artificial intelligence (AI) | Artificial intelligence (AI)]] and [[Machine learning | Machine learning (ML)]] in [[Bioinformatics]].<ref name="BOSC25Years">{{Cite journal

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One of them, Dr. Mélanie Courtot, gave a presentation titled '''"The Data Shows We Need Better Data"''' on day one of the conference. During her speech, she introduced the '''TRUE principles''' for preparing data for AI tools.

The next keynote speaker to present on day two was '''Andrew Su''', who gave a presentation titled '''"Open Data, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models"'''. This presentation discussed how to verify the accuracy of answers produced by [[Large language model | Large language Models (LLM)]]. A solution he presented was [[Retrieval-augmented generation|Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)]].<ref name="BOSC25Years" />

===Other Presentations===

Other than the keynote speakers, there were a total of 36 talks and 23 posters selected to be presented at the conference over the course of multiple sessions. One of the sessions being '''Data Analysis'''. These presentations were about approaches to analyzing [[Biomedical data science | biomedical data]], different types of data that are freely available for use, and some of the research that has been done using these [[Open source | open-source]] tools and data. Another session was titled '''Open Data Session''', which included presentations about some of the freely available [[Database | databasesdatabase]]s, [[Openopen data portal | open data portals]]s, and platforms that are being used by researchers around the world. The session '''Visualization''' included presentations about new additions to older [[Biological Databases | biological databases]].

The next session was titled '''“Standards and Frameworks for Open Science”'''. This session was all about how to create consistent, recyclable, and long lasting open source software. The final session was called '''“Open Approaches to AI/ML”''' , which was about how to use machine learning to solve biological problems. <ref name="BOSC25Years" />

====Open Panel Discussion====

[[File:BOSC2024panelists.gif|thumb|From left to right, Monica Munoz-Torres, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Mélanie Courtot, Lawrence Hunter, and Andrew Su during the “Open Source AI/ML: A Game Changer for Bioinformatics?” open panel discussion]]

The events of day two concluded with an open panel discussion titled “Open Source AI/ML: A Game Changer for Bioinformatics?”.

The researchers on the panel included Lawrence Hunter, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Mélanie Courtot, and Andrew Su. The moderator of the panel was Monica Munoz-Torres. This discussion explored the benefits and drawbacks of using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics research. <ref name="BOSC25Years" />

==External Linkslinks==

*[https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2024/ BOSC 2024 conference page]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNgOhlDi-BI Full recorded BOSC 2024 open panel discussion]

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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lgXRHY1vw4&t=2s Andrew Su BOSC 2024 keynote speech]

*[https://www.iscb.org/ismb2024/home ISMB 2024 conference page]

==References==

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