Dear colleagues,

I hope it is okay for me to share this message with the community. I would like to kindly invite all of you to consider joining us at BOSC 2021. I believe that this event offers a brilliant opportunity for many in the AgBioData community to share the fruits of your work.

The 2021 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021 (BOSC) is a forum for developers and users to interact and share research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics and open science. Topics include software development practices that promote open science standards and sharing of biological data and code, as well as approaches for building diverse communities. BOSC is a track of the conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology / European Conference on Computational Biology 2021 https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021 (ISMB/ECCB), and it will be held online on July 29-30. *The main abstract deadline is May 6th*. Please see our announcement on the BOSC website for complete details at https://www.open-bio.org/2021/03/24/join-us-at-bosc-2021

*Requesting registration fee assistance*: We realize that the cost of ISMB/ECCB may be prohibitive for some. If you are submitting an abstract to BOSC and would have difficulty covering the cost of registration, you can request registration fee assistance during abstract submission.

*Increasing diversity in participation*: Please share this announcement with other people and groups who might be interested. We are particularly interested in reaching out to communities who may not yet be aware of BOSC!

*Key Dates*

- May 6, 2021: Deadline for submitting one-page talk/poster abstracts at https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/submit/ - May 27: Talk/poster acceptance notifications - June 3: Late poster and Late-Breaking Lightning Talk (LBLT) submission deadline - June 10: Late poster / LBLT acceptance notifications - July 29-30: BOSC 2021 Online https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/ (part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online) - July 31-Aug 1: CollaborationFest https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2021/collaborationfest/ (CoFest)

We hope to see you online at BOSC 2021!

Sincerely, ~moni, *on behalf of the BOSC 2021 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris (chair), Karsten Hokamp (co-chair), Peter Cock, Chris Fields, Jessica Maia, Monica Munoz-Torres, Malvika Sharan, Jason Williams*

https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/

*--Moni Munoz-Torres, PhDAssistant Professor, Oregon State UniversityAffiliate Professor, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryDirector of Operations, Center for Cancer Data Harmonization (CCDH)*