OBF Travel Fellowship – BOSC…

[ August 28, 2017 ]

This blog post is syndicated from a post on Jonathan Sobel’s blog, originally published July 27, 2017. Jonathan was supported […]

OBF Travel Fellowship – IGC…

[ August 27, 2017 ]

This blog post is syndicated from a post on Vitalina Kirgizova’s blog, originally published June 6, 2017. Vitalina was supported […]

Travel fellowships: deadline August 15

[ July 29, 2017 ]

The next deadline for the OBF travel fellowship is coming up soon on August 15, 2017. If you are attending […]

Biopython 1.70 released

[ July 11, 2017 ]

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.70 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]

Travel award recipients for April…

[ June 5, 2017 ]

We had a huge response to this round of the OBF travel award. After reviewing the applications, the OBF board […]

BOSC 2017 keynote speakers

[ April 13, 2017 ]

We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2017, and our first sponsors. But […]

Biopython 1.69 released

[ April 7, 2017 ]

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]

OBF Travel Fellowship – CWL…

[ April 5, 2017 ]

This is a guest blog post from Anton Khodak, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]

OBF Public Board of Directors…

[ October 5, 2016 ]

The OBF has at least one public board meeting per year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to […]

Minutes:2016 Oct ConfCall

[ October 4, 2016 ]

Agenda Venue: To be held by conference call on Oct 4, 2016, 12.30pm EDT (16:30 UTC, 17:30 BST, 18:30 CEST, 9.30am […]

BioPerl v1.7.0 released

[ September 25, 2016 ]

We are happy to announce the long-awaited release of BioPerl v1.7.0. The release is now available on CPAN and Github. During this release […]

BioRuby 1.5.1 released

[ September 7, 2016 ]

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.1. In this new release, NCBI Entrez web client classes, Bio::NCBI::REST […]

Biopython 1.68 released

[ August 26, 2016 ]

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.68 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]

BOSC 2016 in Disney World…

[ July 21, 2016 ]

First I would like to congratulate OBF that supports diversity in the community with its travel awards initiative. I was […]

New BioJava Logo Design Competition

[ June 14, 2016 ]

BioJava is organizing a design competition to come up with a new logo. Anybody can participate: The logo should look […]

Biopython 1.67 released

[ June 8, 2016 ]

This was long over-due, but Biopython 1.67 was released earlier today. The most recent delay was due to migrating our website from […]

BOSC 2016 Panel: Growing and…

[ May 27, 2016 ]

Every year, BOSC includes a panel discussion that offers attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the panelists and […]

First three OBF travel fellowships…

[ May 23, 2016 ]

The first round of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program has granted funds to three open source bioinformatics software […]