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+author: nlharris
+date: "2025-10-22T19:05:24+00:00"
+title: Sponsors
+url: /events/bosc/sponsors/
+bosc: yes
+---
+### Sponsoring BOSC
+
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+
+Sponsorships from companies and non-profit organizations help to defray some of our costs and enable us to offer free registration for some conference participants. In 2024, thanks to our sponsors’ generous support, we were able to grant free registration to 15 participants, offer honoraria to keynote speakers, and cover other expenses.
+
+
+#### Interested in sponsoring BOSC?
+
+#### Please contact us at [email protected]!
+
+{{< column >}}
+
+![Nomi by BOSC 2024 poster](/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Nomi-by-BOSC2024-poster.jpg)
+
+{{< endcolumns >}}
+
+</div>
+
+### 2025 Platinum Sponsor:
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CZI_Logotype_RGB.jpg" style="width:60%" alt="CZI" /></a>
+<center>The aim of CZI’s Open Science program is the universal and immediate open sharing of all scientific knowledge, processes, and outputs.
+</center>
+
+<br/>
+
+#### 2025 Gold Sponsor:
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://seqera.io/"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Logo_Seqera-Color.png" style="width:50%" alt="Seqera" /></a>
+<center><small>Seqera, developed by the creators of Nextflow, empowers researchers to develop and deploy scalable bioinformatics pipelines faster</small></center>
+
+<p align="center"><iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V1BbVcCPQHWN-8eMr4-yZ19xAK1p0Tfd/preview" width="640" height="480" allow="autoplay" ></iframe></p>
+
+**2025 Silver Sponsor:**
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gigascience.png" style="width:30%" alt="GigaScience" /></a>
+
+<br/>
+
+<div class="well">
+
+## What is BOSC?
+
+BOSC is an annual meeting organized by the [Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)](/), a non-profit, volunteer-run group dedicated to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the biological research community.
+
+Each BOSC ​includes ​talks,​ ​poster​ ​sessions,​ ​panel, and ​lots​ ​of​ ​opportunities​ ​for​ ​networking. It is followed by​ ​collaborative​ ​working​ ​sessions​ ​at the [CollaborationFest](/events/bosc/collaborationfest/).​ ​These​ ​events​ ​bring​ ​together​ ​software​ ​engineers,​ ​bioinformaticians,​ ​and​ ​researchers​ ​to collaborate​ ​and​ ​extend​ ​open​ ​source​ ​bioinformatics​ ​tools.
+
+![Panel at BOSC 2015](/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BOSC2015-panel-1-1024x521.jpg)
+
+BOSC​ ​participants​ ​come​ ​from​ ​a​ ​wide​ ​variety​ ​of​ ​research​ ​environments​ ​and​ ​backgrounds:
+
+- Biological​ ​researchers,​ ​students,​ ​and​ ​post-docs​ ​who are​ ​learning​ ​bioinformatics​ ​analysis tools and techniques
+- Power​ ​bioinformatics​ ​users
+- Bioinformatics​ ​tool​ ​and​ ​workflow​ ​developers
+- Bioinformatics​-focused​ ​principal​ ​investigators​ ​and​ ​researchers
+- Sequencing​ ​core​ ​facility​ ​staff
+- Industry​ ​scientists​ ​and​ ​bioinformaticians
+- Data​ ​producers
+
+## Previous Events
+
+BOSC​ has been held [every​ ​year​ ​since​ ​2000](/events/bosc/about/).​ Most years, BOSC has been part of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology meeting (ISMB).
+
+In 2018, BOSC partnered with the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) in a very successful joint meeting in Portland, [GCCBOSC 2018](https://gccbosc2018.sched.com/). In July 2020, BOSC again joined forces with GCC to form the [Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020)](https://bcc2020.github.io/). Held online, BCC2020 attracted over 600 participants from 62 countries.
+
+[BOSC 2021](/events/bosc-2021/) was part of [ISMB/ECCB 2021](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021), and took place July 29-30, 2021 (followed by a two-day [CollaborationFest](/events/bosc-2021/collaborationfest/)).
+
+[BOSC 2022](/events/bosc-2022/) was held July 13-14, 2022, as part of [ISMB 2022](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022) in person in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and simultaneously online.
+
+[BOSC 2023](/events/bosc-2023/) took place July 24-25, 2023 as part of [ISMB/ECCB 2023](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023) in Lyon, France and online. Like the previous year, we joined forces with Bio-Ontologies for part of a day!
+
+[BOSC 2024](/events/bosc-2024/), the 25th annual Bioinformatics Open
+Source Conference, took place July 15-16, 2024 as part of
+[ISMB 2024](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2024/home) in Montreal, Canada
+and online. It was followed by [CoFest 2024](/events/bosc-2024/ismb-collaborationfest-2024/).
+
+[BOSC 2025](/events/bosc-2025/) took place in Liverpool, UK, as part
+of the large [ISMB/ECCB 2025](https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home)
+conference, which attracted a record 2238 participants. For the first time,
+[CollaborationFest](/events/bosc-2025/ismb-collaborationfest-2025/)
+was part of the main ISMB/ECCB conference.
+
+[BOSC 2026](/events/bosc/) will be held in Washington, DC (with an online participation option) July 13-14, 2026 as part of ISMB 2026.
+
+<a href="/events/bosc/about" class="btn btn-lg btn-primary">More about BOSC</a>
+
+<br/>
+
+![Seqera booth at BOSC 2024](/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Seqera-booth-2024.jpg)
+
+## Benefits of Sponsorship
+
+Sponsoring BOSC increases your visibility in the bioinformatics community. 
+We acknowledge our sponsors before, during and after the event in multiple ways:
+
+- We list our sponsors on the BOSC website
+- Sponsors are thanked and named in the introduction/closing slides during the meeting
+- We show the sponsor logos on large BOSC posters displayed outside the meeting room and in the poster area
+- The sponsors are thanked in selected emails to our mailing list and social media posts (with your logo) that go out before, during and after the event
+- The sponsors are listed in our published reports after the meeting, e.g., [https://f1000research.com/articles/7-1309/v1](https://f1000research.com/articles/7-1309/v1)
+- Platinum sponsors can show a short video before the first keynote
+- Gold sponsors can show a short video some time during the conference
+- We are open to discussing specific requests, such as distributing stickers or leaflets, or earmarking the sponsorship for a specific activity.
+
+
+![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/BOSC2019-audience1-1.jpg)
+
+
+## How sponsorships help BOSC
+
+We gratefully accept sponsorships from private companies and organizations. In the past these sponsorships have enabled us to
+
+- offer free registration to some BOSC participants
+- support the [OBF's Event Fellowship program](/event-awards/), increasing participation from underrepresented groups
+- provide child care at the conference
+- underwrite the cost of conference events such as dinners or refreshments at poster sessions
+- help defray the cost of videography
+- provide space and catering at the CollaborationFest
+- offer honoraria to keynote speakers
+- pay for captioning and translations
+
+
+<div class="well">
+
+In 2021, sponsorships enabled us to offer free registration to 20 participants from all over the world!
+{{< googlemaps src="1z3D_j0fQYGDqMpCm1f8GQIi2KPvPzOEH" width=640 height=480 >}}
+
+</div>
+
+
+# Sponsors from previous years
+
+## 2024 Platinum Sponsors:
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://seqera.io/"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Logo_Seqera-Color.png" style="width:75%" alt="Seqera" /></a>
+<center>Seqera makes complex data analysis accessible at any scale</center>
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/science)"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CZI_Logotype_RGB.jpg" style="width:65%" alt="CZI" /></a>
+
+{{< columns >}}
+
+<br/>
+
+**2024 Gold Sponsor:**
+
+[![NIH Data Science](/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NIH-ODSS_Horizontal_1Color-653.jpg)](https://datascience.nih.gov/)
+
+{{< column >}}
+
+<br/>
+
+**2024 Silver Sponsor:**
+
+{{< columns >}}
+
+[![GigaScience](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gigascience.png)](https://academic.oup.com/gigascience)
+
+{{< column >}}
+
+{{< endcolumns >}}
+
+{{< endcolumns >}}
+
+<br/>
+
+## BOSC 2023 Platinum Sponsor
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/science)"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CZI_Logotype_RGB.jpg" style="width:60%" alt="CZI" /></a>
+
+### BOSC 2023 Silver Sponsors
+
+[![GigaScience](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gigascience.png)](https://academic.oup.com/gigascience)[![Genevia](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/genevia_logo_cmyk.png)](https://geneviatechnologies.com/)[![SSI logo](/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSI_PRIMARY-LOGO-300x96.png)](https://www.software.ac.uk/)
+
+## BOSC 2022 Platinum Sponsors
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/science"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CZI_Logotype_RGB.jpg" style="width:60%" alt="CZI" /></a>
+
+<br/>
+
+<a target="_new" href="http://aws.amazon.com"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AWS_logo_RGB.png" style="width:35%" alt="AWS" /></a>
+
+## BOSC 2022 Gold Sponsors
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://www.broadinstitute.org/data-sciences-platform"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Broad-DSP-logo-1.png" style="width:50%" alt="Broad" /></a>
+
+<a target="_new" href="https://datascience.nih.gov"><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/NIH-ODSS_Horizontal_1Color-653.jpg" style="width:70%" alt="NIHODSS" /></a>
+
+
+### BOSC 2022 Silver Sponsors
+
+[![Arvados, supported by Curii](/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ArvadosCurii.png)](https://arvados.org)[![Gigascience](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gigascience.png)](https://academic.oup.com/gigascience)
+
+<br/>
+
+<div class="well">
+<center>
+
+<b>If you are interested in becoming a BOSC sponsor, please contact us at [email protected]!</b>
+</center>
+
+
+</div>