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Call for applications for OBF Event Fellowship, Round 1 of 2021

[ 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.

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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…

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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, […]

MetaDocencia: Teaching to Teach (Bioinformatics…

[ January 13, 2021 ]

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development […]

Google Summer of Code 2020…

[ November 4, 2020 ]

OBF was accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code this year. It was another good year for […]

H3ABionet’s Introduction to Bioinformatics Training…

[ September 24, 2020 ]

The Open Bionformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]

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.”

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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), […]