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 […]
Welcome to our Google Summer… [ April 25, 2016 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2016 program, and last Friday the selected students were […]
Phyloinformatics Summer of Code supports… [ April 18, 2016 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is pleased to announce a gift of USD 18,125 from the Phyloinformatics Summer of Code toward […]
BOSC CodeFest 2016 [ March 28, 2016 ] The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two day meeting focused on open source bioinformatics. We aim to encourage […]
BOSC 2016 Keynote Speakers [ March 22, 2016 ] We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2016: Jennifer Gardy Dr. Jennifer Gardy […]
BOSC 2016 Call for Abstracts [ March 1, 2016 ] Call for Abstracts for the 17th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2016), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2016. […]
OBF Travel Fellowship Program [ March 1, 2016 ] We are very pleased to announce our new Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Travel Fellowship program. The program is designed to […]
Apply for OBF Membership online [ December 10, 2015 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is pleased to announce that we’ve finally entered the 21st century and upgraded our membership form […]
Biopython 1.66 released [ October 21, 2015 ] Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.66 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from […]
BioRuby 1.5.0 released [ July 2, 2015 ] We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.0. This new release includes support of recent Ruby versions (Ruby […]
BOSC 2015 Panel – increasing… [ June 5, 2015 ] Every year, BOSC includes a panel discussion that offers all attendees the chance to engage in conversation with the panelists and each other. The theme of the BOSC 2015 panel would be “Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community”. Our complete list of panellists is as follows…
Minutes:2015 May ConfCall [ May 12, 2015 ] Agenda Venue: to be held by conference call on May 12, 2015, 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST, 10am […]
Public OBF Board of Directors… [ May 1, 2015 ] The next public Board of Directors Meeting of the OBF will take place on May 12th, 2015, at 17:00 UTC […]
Open Source, Open Door: increasing… [ April 2, 2015 ] The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has always been about community. Our goal this year is to welcome even greater participation, opening the door even wider to participants who have historically been underrepresented in the world of open source bioinformatics and, therefore, at BOSC.