BOSC 2007/ISMB Attendees/OBF

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

• OBF Supports Open Source

• • The www.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 http://emboss.sourceforge.net/
    • Ensembl http://www.ensembl.org
    • Biomart http://www.biomart.org
    • Bioperl/python/java/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 (www.nescent.org) Phylohackathon

• • BOSC (more Later)