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Main Mission of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation O|B|F

• OBF Supports Open Source
  • The opensource.org website is the primary repository of information for all things Open Source
  • Some of the best Bioinformatics Software in existence is Open Source:
    • EMBOSS
    • Ensembl
    • Biomart
    • BioPerl/Biopython/BioJava/BioRuby/etc
• OBF Supports Developers
  • Project Management, Source Distribution, and User Interaction Hardware and Software Infrastructure
    • Web Hosting
    • Mailing Lists http://lists.open-bio.org
    • Development Servers
    • Online Documentation Sites http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Projects
  • Hackathons
    • 2002 Tuscon, AZ and Capetown, ZA
    • 2003 Singapore
    • 2006 Nescent (http://www.nescent.org) Phylohackathon
  • BOSC (more Later)