BOSC 2014 Keynote Competition

[ December 13, 2013 ]

We’re pleased to officially confirm that one of the two keynote speakers for the 15th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014, in Boston) will be C. Titus Brown, as he announced on Twitter recently – but can you guess the second keynote speaker?

Minutes:2013 Dec ConfCall

[ December 12, 2013 ]

Agenda Venue: to be held by conference call on Dec 12, 2013, 12pm EDT (17:00 UTC) Dial-in Number: 1-605-475-5950 (US Midwest) Participant Access […]

Minutes:2013 Apr ConfCall

[ December 9, 2013 ]

Agenda Venue: to be held by conference call on April 9, 2013, 1.30pm EDT (17:30 UTC) Dial-in Number: 1-605-475-5950 (Midwest) Participant Access Code: […]

Biopython 1.63 released

[ December 6, 2013 ]

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.63 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and (soon) from the Python Package Index (PyPI). […]

Initial release of BioPerl Bio::Community…

[ November 27, 2013 ]

Note: I’m reposting here the original announcement from Florent Angly on the BioPerl mail list. Dear all, Some time ago, I […]

Biopython 1.63 beta released

[ November 12, 2013 ]

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.63 beta are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website. This is a beta […]

BioPerl v.1.6.910 released

[ September 7, 2013 ]

UPDATE: As a bit of time has passed since we originally intended to make a new release, I forgot that […]

Biopython 1.62 released

[ August 28, 2013 ]

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.62 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI).

BOSC 2013

[ July 17, 2013 ]

Hello from Berlin, where the pre-BOSC informal CodeFest 2013 meeting is already underway. We’re looking forward to seeing even more […]

BioRuby 1.4.3.0001 Released

[ May 27, 2013 ]

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.3.0001. This new release fixes the following bugs. “gem install bio” […]

Biopython 1.61 released

[ February 5, 2013 ]

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.61 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and […]

Minutes:2012 Nov ConfCall

[ November 13, 2012 ]

Agenda Old business Sep 2012 BoD meeting minutes New business Election of new Board members. Nominated candidate is Chris Fields. […]

OBF Board meeting 13 Nov

[ November 6, 2012 ]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) will be holding a public Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, 13 Nov, 2012, at […]

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.