title: The 2016 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC).
abstract: Message from the ISCB:The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a yearly meeting organized by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), a non-profit group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the biological research community. BOSC has been run since 2000 as a two-day Special Interest Group (SIG) before the annual ISMB conference. The 17th annual BOSC ( http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2016) took place in Orlando, Florida in July 2016. As in previous years, the conference was preceded by a two-day collaborative coding event open to the bioinformatics community. The conference brought together nearly 100 bioinformatics researchers, developers and users of open source software to interact and share ideas about standards, bioinformatics software development, and open and reproducible science.
authors: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors: Nomi L
authors: NL
authors: Harris
authors: The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK.
authors: Peter J A
authors: PJ
authors: Cock
authors: Bioinformatics Core, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors: Brad
authors: B
authors: Chapman
authors: High Performance Computing in Biology Group, Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
authors: Christopher J
authors: CJ
authors: Fields
authors: Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
authors: Karsten
authors: K
authors: Hokamp
authors: Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
authors: Hilmar
authors: H
authors: Lapp
authors: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
authors: Monica
authors: M
authors: Muñoz-Torres
authors: Plusvital, NovaUCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors: Heather
authors: H
authors: Wiencko
keywords: Bioinformatics; open science; open source