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...

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...

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

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

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

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

GigaScience Press FTW! youtu.be/yp_pYwb78G4?...

Thrilled to present @embl.org's #EBISearch at @bosc.bsky.social at the world’s biggest #Bioinformatics conference, made by the @ebi.embl.org team to make life science data more discoverable. 🧬🔎 #Bioinformatics #EMBLEBI #DataDiscovery #LifeSciences #ComputationalBiology #ResearchTools #FAIRdata

@jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social, Tony Burdett, and Wiriya Rutvisuttinunt outside the @gigascience.bsky.social party at #BOSC2025

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

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.

@monimunozto.bsky.social, wearing a 🍐-green dress, introducing the second set of #OpenData talks 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

An attentive audience at #BOSC2025

Munazah Andrabi asks question at #BOSC2025

@susheelvarma.com giving one of two back-to-back short talks at #BOSC2025.

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

@cmungall.bsky.social preparing for his #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 keynote talk

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

It was a great opportunity to present about RO-Crate at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025. Please send me any more questions you may have. Slides and poster: zenodo.org/records/1584...

#BOSC2025 participants (including @monimunozto.bsky.social) interacting.

Radhika Khetani asking the #BOSC2025 panelists a question

During the #BOSC2025 panel on Data Sustainability, @scedmunds.bsky.social shared his perspective from the world of open scientific publishing while moderator @monimunozto.bsky.social listened attentively.

After the joint #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 session, BOKR co-organizers Tiffany Callahan and Augustin Luna (@[email protected]) enjoy a laugh with Yongqun "Oliver" He.

The #ismbeccb2025 CollaborationFest is starting 11:20. Come join us in room 2F near the coffee break lounge and hear all about our exciting projects! Thanks to @hmenager.bsky.social @dcgenomics.bsky.social @bosc.bsky.social

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

Thinking globally, Guy telling us the Global Biodata coalition, with 11 funders in the coalition and many more observing organisations #BOSC2025 #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...

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

Robert Hoehndorf (@leechuck.bsky.social‬) presenting AberOWL during #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

@philreeddata.bsky.social and Nick Juty answer questions at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

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

Phill Read presenting RO-Crate in #BOSC2025, we’ve been increasing numbers of papers with associated RO-Crates, and have a summer internship working on it at the moment #ISMBECCB2025

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

Michael Bouzinier spoke on "Formal Validation of Variant Classification Rules Using Domain-Specific Language and Meta-Predicates" at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

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

Tiffany Callahan chairing the "Ontologies and knowledge representation" session at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 @bokr.bsky.social

@severaltimes.bsky.social talking about the BioPortal MCP at #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 #ISMBECCB2025

Now at #BOSC2025 BOKR joint session: Harry Caufield "BioPortal: a rejuvenated resource for biomedical ontologies". BioPortal is now 20!

Last talk of the session, AutopeptideML2 from Raúl Fernández-Díaz at #BOSC2025 BOKR.

And now Gavin Farrell presents the DOME registry at #BOSC2025 BOKR

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

Gavin presenting on how we’ve used the DOME guidelines, wizard and registry in our peer review of ML papers (we presented on this in BOSC last year). Calling for more journals to use this. Read the Registry paper academic.oup.com/gigascience/... #BOSC2025 #ISMB2025

Gavin Farrell from ELIXIR presenting on the DOME Registry in the #BOSC2025 AI track #ISMBECCB2025 #ISMB2025

Barath Dandala presents BMFM-RNA at #BOSC2025 BOKR joint session

Favour James presenting textToKnowledgeGraph in the joint #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025 session