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.

GSoC project Sambamba published in…

[ April 1, 2015 ]

(This is a repost of a BLOG on Google Open Source news about Google’s open source student programs and software […]

BOSC 2015 Keynote Speakers

[ March 26, 2015 ]

Announcing the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2015: Holly Bik and Ewan Birney.

BOSC 2015 call for Abstracts

[ March 5, 2015 ]

Call for Abstracts for the 16th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2015), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB/ECCB 2015.

Sadly OBF not accepted for…

[ March 3, 2015 ]

Last year’s Google Summer of Code 2014 was very productive for the OBF with six students working on Bio* and related bioinformatics projects. We applied to be part of GSoC 2015, but unfortunately this year were not accepted.

OBF Google Summer of Code…

[ February 23, 2015 ]

In 2014, OBF had six students in the Google Summer of Code 2014™ (GSoC) program mentored under its umbrella of […]