Server transition process to AWS… [ November 4, 2012 ] Our aging server which has run for 5+ years the OBF sites has finally reached end of its lifespan. We […]
OBF is now an SPI-associated… [ October 12, 2012 ] I am very pleased to announce that as of the SPI’s Board meeting that took place yesterday, O|B|F is now an SPI-associated project.
Minutes:2012 Sep ConfCall [ September 11, 2012 ] Agenda Old business 2011 December BoD meeting minutes New business Approval of changes to O|B|F Bylaws Minutes Venue: held by WebEx conference […]
BioRuby 1.4.3 released [ August 21, 2012 ] We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.3. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.2 and improves […]
Travis-CI for Testing [ July 30, 2012 ] BioRuby, Biopython and BioPerl are now using Travis-CI.org, a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community, to run their unit tests automatically whenever their GitHub repositories are updated.
Biopython 1.60 released [ June 25, 2012 ] Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.60 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and […]
BioJava 3.0.4 released [ May 23, 2012 ] BioJava 3.0.4 has been released and is available from http://www.biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:Download as well as from the BioJava maven repository at http://www.biojava.org/download/maven/ […]
Students selected for GSoC [ April 24, 2012 ] Hello all, I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has selected 5 very capable students […]
Announcing OBF Summer of Code… [ March 25, 2012 ] Applications due 19:00 UTC, April 6, 2012. http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Summer of Code program provides a unique […]
OBF accepted for GSoC 2012 [ March 16, 2012 ] Google announced today that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012!
Call for abstracts for BOSC… [ March 5, 2012 ] Call for Abstracts for the 13th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2012), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB […]
Cross-links in GenomeDiagram [ March 2, 2012 ] I’ve just finished writing up an example for the Biopython Tutorial of the new GenomeDiagram functionality added in Biopython 1.59. […]
Biopython 1.59 released [ February 24, 2012 ] Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.59 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI).
Minutes:2011 Dec ConfCall [ December 13, 2011 ] The meeting was held conference call. Agenda Old business 2010 Financial Report 2011 BoD meeting minutes New business Treasurer’s 2011 […]
Minutes:2011 ConfCall [ November 8, 2011 ] Agenda Old business 2010 BoD meeting minutes 2010 Financial Report Action items from the 2010 meeting New business BOSC BOSC […]
OBF Annual Meeting 2011 [ October 28, 2011 ] The annual Board of Directors Meeting of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation will take place on November 8, 2011. As in previous years, it will be held by conference call, estimated to be about 2 hrs long.
Chromosome Diagrams in Biopython [ October 28, 2011 ] One of the new things coming in Biopython 1.59 is improved chromosome diagrams, something you may have seen via Twitter. […]
BioRuby 1.4.2 released [ August 26, 2011 ] We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.2. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.1 and adds […]