Ewan Birney writes, ``We are pleased to announce that the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC2001) is now open for registration. Please see the web site at http://www.open-bio.org/bosc2001/ for complete details. Like last year, BOSC is running as a satellite meeting to ISMB, allowing those traveling to Copenhagen to attend both meetings.

``This year, BOSC will be organized around existing open source bioinformatics projects such as Biojava, Bioperl, Biopython, EMBOSS and others. The mornings will feature presentations drawn from submitted abstracts. During the afternoons there will be a chance for collaborative coding (desktop machines provided courtsey of Sun and there will also be ethernet hubs), and the ability to have small, across-group meetings. The leaders of most of the open source projects are expected to be there and based on previous years we expect a good attendance of open source bioinformaticians.

``BOSC will be held in parallel with the BioPathways Consortium meeting (see http://www.biopathways.org for more details). Close cooperation and joint registration will allow attendees to participate in both events.''

KEY DATES

Deadline for BOSC registration: June 19, 2001
BOSC2001: July 19-20
ISMB tutorials: July 21
ISMB main sessions: July 22-25