Tag: OBF
Mailing list outage, and public board meeting update
November 12, 2017 :
This time of year we’d normally be having a public board meeting as part of our commitment to communication with […]
Biopython on Podcast.__init__
September 5, 2017 :
Podcast.__init__ describes itself as “The Podcast About Python and the People Who Make It Great”, and the most recent episode […]
Biopython 1.70 released
July 11, 2017 :
Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.70 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]
Travel award recipients for April 2017
June 5, 2017 :
We had a huge response to this round of the OBF travel award. After reviewing the applications, the OBF board […]
Biopython 1.69 released
April 7, 2017 :
Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]
OBF Public Board of Directors Meeting
October 5, 2016 :
The OBF has at least one public board meeting per year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to […]
New BioJava Logo Design Competition
June 14, 2016 :
BioJava is organizing a design competition to come up with a new logo. Anybody can participate: The logo should look […]
First three OBF travel fellowships awarded
May 23, 2016 :
The first round of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program has granted funds to three open source bioinformatics software […]
Phyloinformatics Summer of Code supports OBF Travel Fellowship Program
April 18, 2016 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is pleased to announce a gift of USD 18,125 from the Phyloinformatics Summer of Code toward […]
BOSC CodeFest 2016
March 28, 2016 :
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two day meeting focused on open source bioinformatics. We aim to encourage […]
BOSC 2016 Keynote Speakers
March 22, 2016 :
We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2016: Jennifer Gardy Dr. Jennifer Gardy […]
OBF Travel Fellowship Program
March 1, 2016 :
We are very pleased to announce our new Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Travel Fellowship program. The program is designed to […]
Apply for OBF Membership online
December 10, 2015 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is pleased to announce that we’ve finally entered the 21st century and upgraded our membership form […]
Biopython 1.66 released
October 21, 2015 :
Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.66 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from […]
Open Source, Open Door: increasing diversity in the bioinformatics open source community
April 2, 2015 :
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has always been about community. Our goal this year is to welcome even greater participation, opening the door even wider to participants who have historically been underrepresented in the world of open source bioinformatics and, therefore, at BOSC.
BOSC 2015 Keynote Speakers
March 26, 2015 :
Announcing the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2015: Holly Bik and Ewan Birney.
BOSC 2015 call for Abstracts
March 5, 2015 :
Call for Abstracts for the 16th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2015), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB/ECCB 2015.
Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015
March 3, 2015 :
Last 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.