Supercharge your open project with leadership training [ 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, […]
Computational biology without borders [ October 15, 2019 ] In this post, OBF Travel Fellowship awardee Aziz Khan discusses the importance of open source software and tools for scientific discovery in the current data-intensive century. He also shares his experiences at ISMB/ECCB and BOSC 2019 in Basel.
OBF Travel Fellowship: August 2019… [ September 30, 2019 ] A record number of people applied for the latest round of the OBF Travel Fellowship, which closed on August 15, 2019. […]
5 tips to promote ‘water… [ August 27, 2019 ] In this post, Malvika Sharan discusses her top tips to organise informal discussion sessions that promotes water cooler effect. Such sessions are useful for collecting ideas, gaining perspectives, and engaging with others over serendipitous interactions based on topics of mutual interests.
Dos and Don’ts for computational… [ ] Thanks to OBF support with a travel grant, I was able to attend the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester […]
Cordon Bleu Bioinformatics [ August 25, 2019 ] I attended the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2019) organized this year along with ISMB/ECCB in Basel, Switzerland from July […]
Malvika Sharan elected to OBF… [ August 17, 2019 ] At the OBF’s July 2019 public Board meeting (held at BOSC 2019), Malvika Sharan was unanimously elected as a new […]
OBF Public Board Meeting (July… [ August 16, 2019 ] On July 25, 2019, the OBF held a public Board meeting in Basel, Switzerland. Organized as a Birds of a […]
Next OBF Travel Fellowship Application… [ August 7, 2019 ] The OBF Travel Fellowship program, established in 2016, aims to increase diverse participation at events related to open source bioinformatics. […]
Meeting report: BOSC 2019, the… [ August 1, 2019 ] As Europe experienced a record-breaking heat wave, BOSC 2019 attendees stayed cool in the Basel Congress Center (and many took […]
Minutes:2019 BOSC [ July 23, 2019 ] The July 2019 Open Bioinformatics Foundation Public Board Meeting was held in person, as a Birds-of-Feather during BOSC 2019. The […]
Biopython 1.74 released [ July 16, 2019 ] Dear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.74 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports […]
OBF Travel Fellowship for AfricaOSH… [ June 1, 2019 ] Note: This is a guest blog post from Angela Muraya, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel […]
Travel Award Recipients For April… [ May 31, 2019 ] We are pleased to announce the April 2019 OBF Travel Fellowship recipients. The OBF Travel Fellowship program, established in 2016, […]
BOSC late-round abstract submission closes… [ May 9, 2019 ] If you’d like the opportunity to present your work at BOSC 2019 (which will take place in Basel, Switzerland, on […]
Goodbye mediawiki, hello new website! [ April 8, 2019 ] Above: the old BOSC page. Below: the new one. If you’ve been around the OBF and BOSC community, you’re probably […]
2nd US Semantic Technology Symposium… [ April 6, 2019 ] This is a guest blog post from Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel […]
