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 […]
BOSC welcomes Sarah Hird as… [ January 4, 2015 ] The BOSC 2015 Organizing Committee is pleased to welcome Sarah Hird as our new Outreach Coordinator. BOSC is eager to […]
Biopython 1.65 released [ December 17, 2014 ] Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.65 are now available. The most visible change is that the Biopython sequence objects now use string comparison, rather than Python’s object comparison.
Minutes:2014 Nov ConfCall [ November 18, 2014 ] Agenda Venue: to be held by conference call on Nov 18, 2014, 12.30pm EST (17:30 UTC) Dial-in Information: +1-857-216-2939 PIN: 62534 http://www.uberconference.com/hlapp Old […]
BOSC 2015 will be in… [ September 18, 2014 ] We have asked you, and you have spoken! 59 past and/or future BOSC attendees participated in our survey, answering questions about what […]
BOSC 2014 video recording [ June 19, 2014 ] We aim to video record all the talks at BOSC 2014, and the panel discussion, to be made freely available online after the conference.
OBF Mailing List Outage [ June 15, 2014 ] This is a belated notice that the OBF mailing lists are down due to a server failure. Posting a tweet […]
Biopython 1.64 released [ May 29, 2014 ] Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.64 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI). This release […]
OBF Google Summer of Code… [ April 26, 2014 ] I’m pleased to announce the acceptance of OBF’s Google Summer of Code 2014 (GSoC) students.
Catering at BOSC CodeFest 2014 [ April 2, 2014 ] Bioinformatics Open Source Codefest, July 9 and 10th in Boston, now with sponsored food and drinks!
Free registration to student presenters… [ March 19, 2014 ] To encourage more student presentations at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC), this year we’re waiving the registration fee for accepted student presenters [see main text for details]
OBF GSoC 2014: Call for… [ March 9, 2014 ] Are you a university student and interested in spending the summer developing open-source bioinformatics software? (Good! Keep reading.) On Monday, […]
BOSC 2014 call for abstracts [ March 4, 2014 ] Abstracts are now being accepted for the 15th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2014 to be held in Boston.
OBF accepted as a mentoring… [ February 28, 2014 ] Open Bio is officially a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014! See Google’s official announcement for more details […]