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

Link to publication you might have missed during the @bosc.bsky.social #BOSC2025 talk "Analytical code sharing practices in biomedical research" from Serghei Mangul: doi.org/10.7717/peer...

My Oprah moment: giving out #BOSC2025 / @seqera.io socks to the BOSC participants! You get a pair, and you get a pear 🍐

From the #BOSC2025 organising committee chat during Christine Orengo's keynote:"it was a very good idea to start BOSC with a TED talk ;)"

@nomiharris.bsky.social kicking off #BOSC2025 at #ISMBECCB2025

I reformatted the #ISMBECCB2025 schedule a bit - in case anyone else wants to use it this way - ordered by day and start time: csv: drive.google.com/file/d/1JyhT... xlsx: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Not seeing that much #ismbeccb2025 activity, neither on Mastodon nor on Bluesky. Is there very little activity overall, or are most people still on Xitter?

Wonderful #ISMBECCB2025 keynote from Amos Bairoch, giving a whistle stop tour of attitudes to #biocuration over the last 45 years. I'll certainly be reusing the phrase "the F in #FAIRdata does not mean free"!

I think we're going to get a lot of discussions of #bioinformatics resources funding and sustainability during #ismbeccb2025

Really interesting Q&A following Amos Bairoc's #ISMBECCB2025 keynote. Seems to be an understanding that we cannot rely only on public funds for bioscience resources. IMHO it would be worth exploring micropayments for access to individual records, with 'credit' for biocuration contributions.

Please note: #BOSC2025 poster presentations start before the opening session of BOSC! BOSC poster presentations are 10:00-11:20 and 16:00-16:40 both days of BOSC (Monday and Tuesday). Each poster presenter is assigned to present one day. (1/2)