CollaborationFest will be a collaborative work event at which participants work together to contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases. Bring your own project ideas or come ready to collaborate with others on their projects!

BOSC has held CollaborationFests (aka CoFests) every year before or after ISMB since 2010. (See, for example, https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2024/obf-bosc-collaborationfest-2024/) This year, we decided to hold the CollaborationFest as part of ISMB/ECCB and open it to all registered ISMB/ECCB participants. It will take place during the last two days of ISMB/ECCB.

ISMB CollaborationFest 2025 will be co-organized by volunteers from four COSIs:

Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC)
Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR)
Function COSI
3DSig

Due to space constraints, participation in CollaborationFest is limited. To indicate your interest in participating, register for ISMB/ECCB 2025 by June 20 and sign up for CollaborationFest as an “add-on” during the registration process. We will contact you by June 23 to request a few pieces of information to help us organize the event. Last-minute walk-ins may be possible if we are not at capacity.

Limited remote participation will be possible but how much you can interact will be highly dependent on the people and projects active on the day. We expect to have a video feed from the room available; joining will require you to have registered as a (virtual or in-person) ISMB attendee.