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…

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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, […]

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…

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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 […]