Biopython 1.78 released [ September 4, 2020 ] Biopython 1.78 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. The main change is that Bio.Alphabet is no longer used. […]
Planning an online vs. an… [ September 1, 2020 ] Online. By at least a factor of two. Our recent article entitled Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference discusses […]
Smart computational imaging: a report… [ August 25, 2020 ] Pengfei Fan received the OBF Event Fellowship in the round-1 of 2020. He says “This fellowship was an excellent opportunity to participate in CLEO 2020 where I could connect with open source and open science enthusiasts. I firmly believe that this community will ideally promote open-source software development and advocate diversify in the years to come.”
Call for applications for OBF… [ August 22, 2020 ] We are glad to announce that the call for application to the OBF Event Fellowship is now open. The deadline for the application is 1 October 2020. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form.
Getting introduced to Bioinformatics and… [ August 19, 2020 ] The Open Bionformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
A Software Engineer’s Experience at… [ August 16, 2020 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
Lessons learned from organizing a… [ August 13, 2020 ] BCC2020 (the collaborative BOSC + GCC meeting) was held online, with over 800 people registered for some part of the […]
BCC2020 pre-conference open house [ July 8, 2020 ] After much discussion, the BCC2020 organizing committee has decided to hold the meeting on Remo.co, which is similar to Zoom […]
Biopython 1.77 released [ May 25, 2020 ] Alexander Decurnou (first contribution) Andrei Istrate (first contribution) Andrey Raspopov Austin Varela (first contribution) Chris Daley Chris Rands Deepak Khatri […]
Help us make BCC2020 a… [ May 22, 2020 ] We’re old hands at organizing in-person BOSCs (some of us were involved in planning the very first BOSC, in 2000), […]
Announcing OBF (travel) fellowship awardees… [ May 8, 2020 ] We are delighted to announce that four awardees, Gigi Kenneth, Armando Blondel Djiyou Djeuda, Edidiong Etuk and Pengfei Fan, have been selected to receive the OBF travel fellowship for 2020 round 1, to support their participation in virtual events.
BCC2020 (inc. BOSC 2020) abstracts… [ May 3, 2020 ] We look forward to receiving lots of abstracts by the end of this week from people interested in presenting at […]
Galaxy Admin 2020 and beyond… [ April 14, 2020 ] OBF Travel Award recipient Michael Thompson writes about his experience at the Galaxy Admin Training 2020
In Memoriam: Galaxy’s co-founder, James… [ April 3, 2020 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation was shocked and saddened to learn that our colleague and collaborator James Taylor, a professor of […]
BOSC 2020 will be online [ March 24, 2020 ] The 2020 Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020), which brings together the BOSC and Galaxy communities, will take place online–more info here. […]
OBF travel fellowships update in… [ March 13, 2020 ] In light of the current outbreak, we urge everyone to avoid travelling if possible, in order to slow the rate […]
OBF accepted as a mentoring… [ March 2, 2020 ] OBF has been selected as a Google Summer of Code mentor organisation for the 5th consecutive time! We are proud […]
OBF Travel Fellowship 2020: Round… [ February 17, 2020 ] We are currently accepting applications for the first application round for the OBF Travel Fellowship 2020. Apply here.
OBF Board elections, December 2019 [ January 14, 2020 ] During the public OBF Board Meeting held on December 17, 2019, elections were held for five Board members whose terms […]
