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 […]
OBF Travel Fellowship awards for… [ December 21, 2019 ] Two awardees were chosen during the latest round of the OBF Travel Fellowship program, which closed on December 1, 2019. The […]
Biopython 1.76 released [ December 20, 2019 ] Biopython 1.76 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. Coming relatively soon after our last release, the timing is […]
Global Community Biosummit 2019 @MIT [ December 17, 2019 ] The Open Bionformatics Foundation (OBF) sponsors a Travel Fellowship program aimed at increasing diverse participation at events promoting Open Source […]
Creating an OBF-wide Code of… [ November 15, 2019 ] Among the core values shared across the OBF community are inclusiveness and welcoming newcomers to contribute, without discrimination. Every year […]
Call for OBF Travel Fellowship… [ November 14, 2019 ] The call for OBF travel fellowship to select the next round of awardees is officially open! Please submit your application […]
Changes to the OBF Travel… [ ] The OBF Travel Fellowship program, which was started in 2016, will be making some changes to the schedule. Until now, […]
Supercharge your open project with… [ November 12, 2019 ] This post is co-authored by Bérénice Batut, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang, and Yo Yehudi. In 2016, Mozilla launched a program […]
Biopython 1.75 released [ November 7, 2019 ] Dear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.75 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports Python 2.7, 3.5, […]
