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 […]

OBF applies for Google Summer…

[ February 17, 2014 ]

On Friday, OBF applied to be a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014. The core of our application […]

Call for Ideas for OBF’s…

[ February 1, 2014 ]

Google Summer of Code is on again for 2014, and OBF is once again applying as a mentoring organization. Participating […]

Call for Organization Admins for…

[ January 14, 2014 ]

Update: The deadline for responding has been extended to January 25. The 2014 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is coming […]

BOSC 2014 Keynote Speakers

[ December 24, 2013 ]

Thanks to those who participated in the BOSC 2014 Keynote Competition! Our winner is Manuel Corpas, who correctly surmised Philip […]

BioPerl release 1.6.923

[ December 19, 2013 ]

The latest BioPerl release (v1.6.923) is now available on CPAN. This is a point release to address a few bugs, […]