Join us at BOSC 2021! [ March 24, 2021 ] BOSC 2021 will take place July 29-30, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online. Key Dates May 6, 2021 (11:59pm EDT): […]
Call for applications for OBF… [ February 19, 2021 ] The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2021, round 1 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2021. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form.
Seeking community volunteers: nomination open… [ February 15, 2021 ] TL;DR: Nominate candidates or yourself for the OBF board via this form or work with OBF in other volunteer capacities. […]
Google Summer of Code 2021… [ February 13, 2021 ] It’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application time again – I’ll be leading the OBF GSoC application and org admin […]
Would you like to make… [ February 12, 2021 ] About three years ago I nervously responded to a blog post from the OBF looking for board member applications from […]
BOSC 2021 will be part… [ February 12, 2021 ] BOSC is returning to ISMB in 2021, after a successful partnership with Galaxy for the first Bioinformatics Community Conference last […]
Domain names available for adoption [ January 28, 2021 ] The OBF has two sets of domain names available for adoption by a non-profit or open source project: biows.org, biows.com, […]
MetaDocencia: Teaching to Teach (Bioinformatics… [ January 13, 2021 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development […]
Google Summer of Code 2020… [ November 4, 2020 ] OBF was accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code this year. It was another good year for […]
H3ABionet’s Introduction to Bioinformatics Training… [ September 24, 2020 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
Biopython 1.78 released [ September 4, 2020 ] Biopython 1.78 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. The main change is that Bio.Alphabet is no longer used. […]
Planning an online vs. an… [ September 1, 2020 ] Online. By at least a factor of two. Our recent article entitled Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference discusses […]
Smart computational imaging: a report… [ August 25, 2020 ] Pengfei Fan received the OBF Event Fellowship in the round-1 of 2020. He says “This fellowship was an excellent opportunity to participate in CLEO 2020 where I could connect with open source and open science enthusiasts. I firmly believe that this community will ideally promote open-source software development and advocate diversify in the years to come.”
Call for applications for OBF… [ August 22, 2020 ] We are glad to announce that the call for application to the OBF Event Fellowship is now open. The deadline for the application is 1 October 2020. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form.
Getting introduced to Bioinformatics and… [ August 19, 2020 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
A Software Engineer’s Experience at… [ August 16, 2020 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
Lessons learned from organizing a… [ August 13, 2020 ] BCC2020 (the collaborative BOSC + GCC meeting) was held online, with over 800 people registered for some part of the […]
BCC2020 pre-conference open house [ July 8, 2020 ] After much discussion, the BCC2020 organizing committee has decided to hold the meeting on Remo.co, which is similar to Zoom […]
