We are delighted to welcome back @seqera.io as a Gold Sponsor of #BOSC2026! Seqera, built by the creators of Nextflow, is the enterprise-first bioinformatics platform trusted by leading pharma and diagnostics companies to build, validate, and scale bioinformatics with confidence.

We're excited about the TWO panel discussions that we're planning for #BOSC2026: 1. Policies and Strategies for Resilient Open Science 2. Open Source in the Age of AI Read about them here: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

#genAI is changing everything, including the #OpenSource ecosystem. #BOSC2026 wants to hear your thoughts! Submit your abstract by April 9 to be considered for a talk. Read more: www.open-bio.org/posts/Open-S... Abstract submission: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

We're proud to have @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social on the #BOSC2026 Organizing Committee, and we applaud his latest honor - he is now one of the distinguished AAAS Fellows! 🙌🍐

We are thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker for #BOSC2026: Eric Green, the Chief Medical Officer at Illumina. Dr. Green was a key architect of the Human Genome Project and led the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for 15 years. More info: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

We are delighted to announce our first keynote speaker for #BOSC2026: Maryam Zaringhalam, Ph.D. @webmz.bsky.social, the Senior Director of Policy at the Center for Open Science @cos.io. #OpenScience #ISMB2026 #AIready #data as a #publicgood More information at www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

Time to think about submitting an abstract to #BOSC2026! The deadline for submitting talk/poster abstracts is April 9. (There is an additional late poster round that closes in May, but those late submissions won't be considered for talks.) www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-... #OpenSource #OpenScience

#BOSC2026 is looking for sponsors! Your sponsorship helps BOSC advance open-source bioinformatics and open science and broaden representation (www.open-bio.org/obf-dei/). Info: open-bio.org/events/bosc/.... Please contact us for details about sponsorship levels and perks!

Submissions to BOSC are via ISMB's submission portal. ISMB is run by ISCB (confused yet? 😜). Therefore, BOSC submissions close when ISMB submissions close: April 9, AoE (explained below).

Call for Comments on BOSC 2026 Keynote Speaker Candidates We appreciate the excellent keynote speaker suggestions for #BOSC2026. We invite you to anonymously share any concerns about the suitability of the nominated individuals by Friday Jan 9. www.open-bio.org/2025/12/18/2...

Save the date: #BOSC2026 (www.open-bio.org/events/bosc) will take place July 13-14 in Washington, DC, as part of ISMB 2026 (July 12-16). We hope you will join us in person or online! 🍐 #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

Keynote talks are always a highlight of BOSC. We invite you, our community, to nominate potential keynote speakers for #BOSC2026! 🍐 www.open-bio.org/2025/12/02/2...

Videos of the #BOSC2025 talks are now available on our schedule page (scroll down to Talks), as well as on our YouTube channel. Enjoy! 🍐 Schedule page: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-... YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@OBFBOSC/vid... #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

Check out our #BOSC2025 report on @f1000publishing.bsky.social (It includes lots of pictures!) 🍐 f1000research.com/articles/14-...

An open letter about the recent cuts at GigaScience: www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2... (open for signatures until the end of October) #OpenScience #OpenData #GigaScience

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Very exciting to see the research from @cziscience.bsky.social on the rBio distilling a black box foundation model (in this case a "virtual cell" perturbation model) into a smaller reasoner LLM. And it uses ontologies as part of RL! chanzuckerberg.com/blog/rbio-re...

During the #BOSC2025 closing remarks, chair @nomiharris.bsky.social thanked the BOSC sponsors (@cziscience.bsky.social @seqera.io @gigascience.bsky.social) for covering registration for 12 BOSC presenters.

At the end of #BOSC2025, the organizing committee was joined on stage by the review committee members who were able to go to Liverpool.

An attentive audience at #BOSC2025

A few shots of the #BOSC2025 panelists discussing their thoughts on data sustainability. Panelists were @scedmunds.bsky.social, @cmungall.bsky.social, @varsha-khodiyar.bsky.social, Tony Burdett, and Nicky Mulder; the moderator was @monimunozto.bsky.social

@proflhunter.bsky.social makes a point during a Q&A at #BOSC2025, while continuing to show off his #BOSC2024 socks

We encourage those who presented at #BOSC2025 to add their slides and/or poster to the BOSC collection at F1000: f1000research.com/collections/bosc

Just as Chris launched into the topic of knowledge censorship, the AI transcription and the slides stopped working. Coincidence?? 🤔 #BOSC2025

Fantastic #BOSC2025 panel on data sustainability to cap off the conference. #ISMBECCB2025

Quick shout out for the Make Data Count challenge to improve data citation from @gigascience.bsky.social's Scott Edmunds. Looks cool and 💲prizes! #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Closing session at #BOSC2025, Guy Cochrane talking about the Global Biodata Infrastructure, hopefully framing things for the sustainability panel (which our EiC @scedmunds.bsky.social is participating in #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025

Guy ending his talk telling the #BOSC2025 audience if they value global data infrastructure sign their open letter globalbiodata.org/open-letter-... #ISMBECCB2025

Keeping a data resource alive is a huge challenge. Lots of different guidelines being discussed in the #BOSC2025 panel for data resources including the O3 guidelines #ISMBECCB2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A full room during @cmungall.bsky.social's #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 keynote talk at #ISMBECCB2025

Damien Goutte-Gattat gave a thought-provoking talk about how to deal with ontology censorship. #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

In case you missed our daily recaps for the first two days of the conference, you can find them posted on our society announcements page!  Access it here: https://www.iscb.org/iscb-news-items

Helen Parkinson and Susheel Varma at the #BOSC2025 poster session

Harry Caufield (@severaltimes.bsky.social) giving a BioPortal update at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025. You can try out BioPortal at bioportal.bioontology.org

The #ISMBECCB2025 lunch today included our favorite fruit! 🍐 #BOSC2025

Jessica Maia introduces the AI/ML session at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

As he begins his #BOSC2025 / @bokr.bsky.social keynote, @cmungall.bsky.social mentions that he worked on #Bioperl in the distant past. #ISMBECCB2025

Today #BOSC2025 and #BOKR (formerly Bioontologies) COSI’s, Chris Mungall is doing the keynote on Open KBs in the age of generative AI #ISMBECCB2025

Very timely topics (unfortunately). #BOSC2025 is having a Data Sustainability panel today (July 22) at 16:40 in room 03A. Please join us! www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

#BOSC2025 chair @nomiharris.bsky.social and Kam Dahlquist, who chaired BOSC from 2009-2011

@monimunozto.bsky.social presents Bridge2AI at #ISMBECCB25 #BOSC2025

Interesting evaluations of AI-readiness of the different Bridge2AI grand challenges datasets via radar plots. Lots of variation, especially as some data types don’t have standards. Read more in their preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025

Now up in #BOSC2025 is our Ed Board Member @monimunozto.bsky.social talking about the AI/ML readiness of biomedical data through the Bridge2AI project #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025

In the Analytic tools and pipelines track of #BOSC2025, interesting to see @nextflow.io in 2024 overtook #usegalaxy to become the most widely used workflow manager in bioinformatics #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025

#bioinfo4women #ISMBECCB2025 women in bioinformatics slack invite link (for 30 days) in case anyone wants to join: join.slack.com/t/women-in-b...

#BOSC2025 chair @nomiharris and @proflhunter show off their BOSC 2024 socks (provided by @seqera). Who wore it better? 🧦🍐

Good news, @seqera.io !

Now in the #BOSC2025 Analytic tools and pipelines track, Jose Espinosa-Carrasco presenting on @nextflow.io and associated nf-core community, best practice workflows and coding guidelines. #ISMBECCB2025

@nomiharris.bsky.social pointing out that sometimes off-by-1 errors are your friends

62.5% of the #BOSC2025 organizing committee: @jasonwilliamsny @monimunozto.bsky.social @nomiharris.bsky.social Karsten Hokamp and Hervé Ménager