Working on a CWL-Toil project with the Open Bioinformatics Foundation [ June 23, 2021 ] This is a guest post from Mihai Popescu, a GSoC student with CWL, which participates under the OBF umbrella. Cross-posted […]
Working on a data science… [ June 17, 2021 ] This post is guest-posted by Federica Trevisan, an OBF GSoC student with the Wellcome Trust. Cross-posted with Federica’s blog: https://federikovi.medium.com/my-google-summer-of-code-2021-c795dd0cc794 […]
Eight incredible GSoC students for… [ ] Every year the OBF applies to participate as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code, a paid work experience […]
Birds of a Feather at… [ June 15, 2021 ] Birds of a Feather (BoFs) are informal, self-organized meetups focused on specific topics. They are a great way to meet […]
BOSC-OBF 2021 Event Support Fund [ June 11, 2021 ] Thanks to funding from our sponsors, we are opening a special call for applications to the BOSC-OBF Event Support Fund. […]
Summary of my participation at… [ June 7, 2021 ] The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program supports and encourages diverse participation at events focusing on open source bioinformatics […]
Biopython 1.79 released! [ June 3, 2021 ] Biopython 1.79 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This is the final release supporting Python […]
BOSC late poster abstract deadline… [ May 28, 2021 ] There’s still a chance to submit your abstract in the Late Poster round, which closes June 3 at 11:59pm ET! […]
Request for comments on the… [ May 12, 2021 ] The OBF is committed to providing a harassment-free and respectful environment for all members of our community. To ensure that […]
OBF Community Support Sponsorship [ May 11, 2021 ] The following outlines a potential new grant programme, subject to approval by the OBF membership in a formal vote, which […]
Introducing the BOSC 2021 Organizing… [ May 9, 2021 ] BOSC is organized entirely by volunteers. We are lucky to have these amazing people on the Organizing Committee this year! […]
BOSC Abstract Parties! [ April 9, 2021 ] Are you thinking of writing an abstract for BOSC? We’re here to help! The BOSC Organizing Committee is holding two […]
Join us at BOSC 2021! [ March 24, 2021 ] BOSC 2021 will take place July 29-30, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online. Key Dates May 6, 2021 (11:59pm EDT): […]
Call for applications for OBF… [ February 19, 2021 ] The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2021, round 1 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2021. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form.
Seeking community volunteers: nomination open… [ February 15, 2021 ] TL;DR: Nominate candidates or yourself for the OBF board via this form or work with OBF in other volunteer capacities. […]
Google Summer of Code 2021… [ February 13, 2021 ] It’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application time again – I’ll be leading the OBF GSoC application and org admin […]
Would you like to make… [ February 12, 2021 ] About three years ago I nervously responded to a blog post from the OBF looking for board member applications from […]
BOSC 2021 will be part… [ ] BOSC is returning to ISMB in 2021, after a successful partnership with Galaxy for the first Bioinformatics Community Conference last […]
Domain names available for adoption [ January 28, 2021 ] The OBF has two sets of domain names available for adoption by a non-profit or open source project: biows.org, biows.com, […]
