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December 15th, 2017 by PeterBioRuby 1.5.1 released
September 7th, 2016 by Naohisa GotoWe are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.1. In this new release, NCBI Entrez web client classes, Bio::NCBI::REST […]
BioRuby 1.5.0 released
July 2nd, 2015 by Naohisa GotoWe are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.0. This new release includes support of recent Ruby versions (Ruby […]
GSoC project Sambamba published in scientific journal
April 1st, 2015 by Pjotr Prins(This is a repost of a BLOG on Google Open Source news about Google’s open source student programs and software […]
Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015
March 3rd, 2015 by PeterLast year’s Google Summer of Code 2014 was very productive for the OBF with six students working on Bio* and related bioinformatics projects. We applied to be part of GSoC 2015, but unfortunately this year were not accepted.
OBF Google Summer of Code 2014 Wrap-up
February 23rd, 2015 by Hilmar LappIn 2014, OBF had six students in the Google Summer of Code 2014™ (GSoC) program mentored under its umbrella of […]
Call for Organization Admins for OBF’s 2014 Google Summer of Code participation
January 14th, 2014 by Hilmar LappUpdate: The deadline for responding has been extended to January 25. The 2014 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is coming […]
BioRuby 1.4.3.0001 Released
May 27th, 2013 by Naohisa GotoWe are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.3.0001. This new release fixes the following bugs. “gem install bio” […]
BioRuby 1.4.3 released
August 21st, 2012 by Naohisa GotoWe 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 30th, 2012 by PeterBioRuby, 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.
Students selected for GSoC
April 24th, 2012 by PeterHello all, I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has selected 5 very capable students […]
BioRuby 1.4.2 released
August 26th, 2011 by Naohisa GotoWe are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.2. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.1 and adds […]
OBF and Google Summer of Code 2011
March 18th, 2011 by PeterGoogle announced today the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2011 Google Summer of Code!
Introduction of OpenID logins for OBF wikis
March 17th, 2011 by Chris FieldsDue to a huge influx of spam across all OBF wikis, we are in the process of locking down new […]
OBF Redmine server now available
March 17th, 2011 by Chris FieldsThe OBF now has a sparkly new Redmine instance running on Amazon EC2, thanks to efforts from Chris Dagdigian and Jason […]
BioRuby 1.4.1 released
October 22nd, 2010 by Naohisa GotoWe are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.1. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.0 and new […]
BioRuby paper published
August 26th, 2010 by Naohisa GotoAfter 10 years of development, the BioRuby paper is finally published in the Bioinformatics journal. The article is open access, […]
O|B|F Google Summer of Code Accepted Students
May 2nd, 2010 by Robert BuelsI’m pleased to announce the acceptance of OBF’s 2010 Google Summer of Code students, listed in alphabetical order with their […]