Travel fellowships: deadline August 15

 Posted on July 29, 2017  |  kcranstn

The next deadline for the OBF travel fellowship is coming up soon on August 15, 2017. If you are attending any event that develops / promotes open source software or open science, and you are willing to write a blog post about the event, we welcome your application. See the travel fellowship page for more details and link to the application form.

Biopython 1.70 released

 Posted on July 11, 2017  |  peterc

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.70 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release is also on the Python Package Index (PyPI). Windows installers and/or wheels should be available later. ( Update: Compiled wheel packages now available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows). This release of Biopython supports Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 (we have now dropped support for Python 3. [Read More]

Travel award recipients for April 2017

 Posted on June 5, 2017  |  kcranstn

We had a huge response to this round of the OBF travel award. After reviewing the applications, the OBF board selected four recipients. Three applicants accepted awards, and all plan to use the funds to attend this year’s BOSC, to take place July 22-23 in Prague. Congratulations to our spring 2017 recipients: Sourav Singh, who will participate in the Codefest and present the Biopython Project Update 2017 talk Jonathan Sobel, presenting on a citizen science project named BeerDeCoded, carried out by members of the Swiss non-profit called the Hackuarium Jiwen Xin, presenting the BioThings Explorer project, which integrates genomic data via public APIs We encourage everyone at BOSC to come out and support our award winners! [Read More]

BOSC 2017 keynote speakers

 Posted on April 13, 2017  |  peterc

We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2017, and our first sponsors. But first a final reminder - today (Thursday 13 April 2017) is our deadline for submitting a full length talk abstract to BOSC 2017. Dawn Field Dawn Field is a Lamberg International Guest Professor at Göteborg University’s Department of Marine Sciences. Previously she was a senior research fellow at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Head of the Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Group at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, UK, and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. [Read More]

OBF Travel Fellowship - CWL week in London

 Posted on April 5, 2017  |  peterc

This is a guest blog post from Anton Khodak, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend a week long Common Workflow Language (CWL) workshop in London, November 2016. This was a natural continuation of Anton’s work on porting tools to the CWL as one of the OBF’s Google Summer of Code 2016 students. The OBF’s Travel Fellowship program continues to help open source bioinformatics software developers with funding to attend conferences or workshops. The current call closes 15 April 2017 - if you’re planning to attend the OBF’s annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2017 in Prague, you might want to apply? [Read More]

OBF Public Board of Directors Meeting

 Posted on October 5, 2016  |  cjfields

The OBF has at least one public board meeting per year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to publicly discuss items relevant to the OBF community.  The latest public OBF Board of Director’s meeting took place October 4, 2016. It was attended by Board members Hilmar Lapp, Peter Cock, Nomi Harris, Chris Fields, and Karen Cranston, as well as guests Heather Wiencko (Board candidate), Michael Crusoe, Spencer Bliven, and Robert Gilmore.

The agenda, and tentative minutes (taken by then-secretary Peter Cock) are available from the OBF wiki.  The following is a summary:

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Minutes:2016 Oct ConfCall

 Posted on October 4, 2016  |  admin

Agenda Venue: To be held by conference call on Oct 4, 2016, 12.30pm EDT (16:30 UTC, 17:30 BST, 18:30 CEST, 9.30am PDT) Dial-in Information: +1-857-216-2939 PIN: 62534 http://www.uberconference.com/hlapp Old business May 2015 BoD meeting minutes Amendments to the 2013 Financial Report 2014 Financial Report New business Term expirations and Elections for the Board ( electronic ballot) Heather Wiencko, running for election to the Board. Hilmar Lapp, President of the Board. Running for re-election. [Read More]

BioPerl v1.7.0 released

 Posted on September 25, 2016  |  cjfields

We are happy to announce the long-awaited release of BioPerl v1.7.0. The release is now available on CPAN and Github. During this release series, we will move some extraneous code to separate repositories and CPAN releases, primarily to reduce the number of dependencies required for BioPerl installation (in many cases for modules that are never used) and also reduce maintenance overhead. This may only impact you if your code incorrectly list the immediate downstream dependencies that you utilize. [Read More]