title: The 2015 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2015).
abstract: The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of open source software development and open science within the biological research community. Since its inception in 2000, BOSC has provided bioinformatics developers with a forum for communicating the results of their latest efforts to the wider research community. BOSC offers a focused environment for developers and users to interact and share ideas about standards; software development practices; practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; and approaches that promote open science and sharing of data, results, and software. BOSC is run as a two-day special interest group (SIG) before the annual Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference. BOSC 2015 took place in Dublin, Ireland, and was attended by over 125 people, about half of whom were first-time attendees. Session topics included "Data Science;" "Standards and Interoperability;" "Open Science and Reproducibility;" "Translational Bioinformatics;" "Visualization;" and "Bioinformatics Open Source Project Updates". In addition to two keynote talks and dozens of shorter talks chosen from submitted abstracts, BOSC 2015 included a panel, titled "Open Source, Open Door: Increasing Diversity in the Bioinformatics Open Source Community," that provided an opportunity for open discussion about ways to increase the diversity of participants in BOSC in particular, and in open source bioinformatics in general. The complete program of BOSC 2015 is available online at http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2015_Schedule.
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Nomi L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.affiliation: The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Peter J A
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Cock
authors.affiliation: Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
authors.forename: Hilmar
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authors.lastname: Lapp
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics Core, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Brad
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authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.affiliation: The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Davey
authors.affiliation: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fields
authors.affiliation: Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hokamp
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Munoz-Torres
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland