Google Summer of Code 2018… [ February 22, 2019 ] We have recently applied to Google for the OBF to be part of the Google Summer of Code 2019 programme, […]
Travel award recipients for December… [ February 13, 2019 ] We had a great round of OBF travel fellowship candidates in our last round of applications, and after review we […]
Meet our new Travel Fellowship… [ January 9, 2019 ] The next round of our OBF Travel Fellowships just ended on the 15th of December! This round we have introduced […]
Biopython 1.73 released [ December 18, 2018 ] Dear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.73 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports […]
Updates are coming! [ November 19, 2018 ] About a year ago, the OBF shared plans to get more involved with the open science community, and followed up […]
New OBF logo [ November 5, 2018 ] We have successfully crowd-sourced a new OBF logo! The process started at the OBF Birds of a Feather meeting at GCCBOSC […]
OBF membership form fixed [ October 26, 2018 ] We recently discovered that the application to join the OBF (linked from the OBF membership page) was not working. It […]
The color of bioinformatics: what… [ August 29, 2018 ] This is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend […]
City of roses they call… [ August 18, 2018 ] How should I start describing the fruitful experience in this amazing city… First time ever in Portland, second time attending […]
Taking Turns [ August 2, 2018 ] BOSC 2019 will be part of ISMB 2019 Every year until 2018, BOSC was part of the annual ISMB conference […]
GCCBOSC 2018 post-meeting report [ July 27, 2018 ] This year, the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) and the Bioinformatics Community Conference (BOSC) met together to form the first Bioinformatics […]
Following up from BOSC’s OBF… [ July 9, 2018 ] It was really great to meet so many of you at GCCBOSC this year! We will soon have a couple […]
Biopython 1.72 released [ June 27, 2018 ] Dear Biopythoneers, I’m writing this in Portland at the GCC BOSC 2018 conference, where I will present the Biopython Project […]
OBF Birds of a Feather… [ June 14, 2018 ] If you’re going to GCCBOSC 2018, we invite you to join us at the OBF Birds of a Feather on […]
Travel award recipients for April… [ May 25, 2018 ] We had another great round of applications for the OBF Travel Fellowship this spring. After reviewing the applications, the OBF Board selected […]
Saving science from itself: A… [ May 22, 2018 ] This is a guest blog post from Anisha Keshavan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
Welcome to our Google Summer… [ April 24, 2018 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is again participating in the Google Summer of Code program this year. Last Monday the selected students […]
BioJava 5.0.0 is out [ April 9, 2018 ] BioJava 5.0.0 was released on the 23rd of March 2018. This represents a major milestone that brings more consolidation and […]