Saving science from itself: A… [ May 22, 2018 ] This is a guest blog post from Anisha Keshavan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
Welcome to our Google Summer… [ April 24, 2018 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is again participating in the Google Summer of Code program this year. Last Monday the selected students […]
BioJava 5.0.0 is out [ April 9, 2018 ] BioJava 5.0.0 was released on the 23rd of March 2018. This represents a major milestone that brings more consolidation and […]
Biopython 1.71 released [ April 4, 2018 ] Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.71 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]
Welcome to our new board… [ March 20, 2018 ] As mentioned in our previous blog post, last Friday the OBF had a board of directors meeting. One of the […]
Minutes:2018 Mar ConfCall [ March 16, 2018 ] Dial-in information Dial-in Information: +1-857-216-2939 PIN: 62534 http://www.uberconference.com/hlapp Agenda Venue: To be held by conference call on March 16, 2018, 11.00am […]
OBF Public Board Meeting to… [ March 5, 2018 ] The OBF Board of Directors holds a public meeting about once a year, in accordance with our bylaws. The next […]
OBF accepted as a mentoring… [ February 23, 2018 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for the 2018 instance of the Google Summer of […]
GCCBOSC 2018: A Bioinformatics Community… [ February 21, 2018 ] We are pleased to announce that abstract submission and early registration for GCCBOSC2018 are now open. This event brings our annual Bioinformatics Open […]
OBF Travel Fellowship – Coding… [ February 11, 2018 ] Sharing highlights of my unforgettable experience in the snowy white city of Oslo, Norway from the 7th to the 14th of January, 2018.
Arun Decano awarded OBF Travel… [ January 30, 2018 ] Arun Decano is a PhD research fellow in the Infection Genomics Group at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. Her […]
Mailing list consolidation [ December 15, 2017 ] The OBF’s self-hosted mailman server is still struggling right now, so we are looking at migrating the active mailing lists […]
Next OBF Travel Fellowship application… [ December 7, 2017 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program was launched in 2016 to help increase diverse participation at events promoting open source […]
BOSC 2017 in Prague, the… [ November 21, 2017 ] This is a guest blog post from Farah Zaib Khan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
OBF visioning 2017 [ November 14, 2017 ] TL;DR: The OBF isn’t doing enough in public policy and advocacy around Open Science, and we are looking to recruit […]
Mailing list outage, and public… [ November 12, 2017 ] This time of year we’d normally be having a public board meeting as part of our commitment to communication with […]
BOSC 2017 report [ October 28, 2017 ] BOSC 2017 (https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2017) was held in Prague in July 2017 as part of the annual ISMB conference. Nearly 250 people, […]
Biopython on Podcast.__init__ [ September 5, 2017 ] Podcast.__init__ describes itself as “The Podcast About Python and the People Who Make It Great”, and the most recent episode […]
