Server transition process to AWS servers

 Posted on November 5, 2012  |  stajich

Our aging server which has run for 5+ years the OBF sites has finally reached end of its lifespan. We are currently migrating sites to AWS volumes and sites for a temporary period while we decide about how to continue to support these services in the future. There will be some downtime while the all-volunteer OBF admin team makes time to fix this. Nearly all projects use public source code repositories such as github or sourceforge so no problems with access to the code should be limiting. [Read More]

Introduction of OpenID logins for OBF wikis

 Posted on March 17, 2011  |  cjfields

Due to a huge influx of spam across all OBF wikis, we are in the process of locking down new user account creation and adding OpenID logins for the OBF wikis (BioPerl example). User account creation via the old login system will be disabled and OpenID will be the default path for new accounts so users to make wiki changes. This currently appears to have cut the incidence of spam significantly. [Read More]

Introducing (and expanding) the Biopython Cookbook

 Posted on April 30, 2009  |  davidw

Hi all, You may have noticed we’re trying out using the wiki for Biopython cookbook entries. It’s a new idea so at the moment there are only a few ‘recipes’ on offer. If you have some tricks you find yourself using time and again to solve a problem why not share them? Similarly, if you find yourself coming up against a problem you can’t seem to solve easily with Biopython’s tools send a message to one of the mailing lists proposing it as a cookbook example and someone just might solve it for you! [Read More]

Biopython on twitter

 Posted on March 27, 2009  |  peterc

Just to let you all know, Biopython is now on twitter. And in case you missed the OBF announcement last month, so is the O|B|F News feed (and BioPerl). You are welcome to follow us (all) on twitter.

I’d also like to remind people there are news feeds for the Biopython news posts (as RDF, RSS, RSS2, or Atom format). We’re planning to have these automatically echoed onto twitter in future… (update) …and that seems to be working now :)

mediawiki updated

 Posted on June 14, 2007  |  stajich

Updated mediawiki to 1.10

Did a bulk creation of a number of modules wiki pages for modules that had been previously created but not added to the wiki. Added them with default module templates.

Updated PDoc software

 Posted on June 26, 2006  |  stajich

Raphaël Leplae has updated the Pdoc software to have an improved stylesheet and fix several bugs including problems rendering Bio::DB::Fasta. Thanks a lot Raphaël and Patrick Meidl for getting the bugs reported and fixed for this nice POD to HTML converter. You can see the Pdoc for Bioperl packages in action at the doc.bioperl.org site. See the bottom links which are for live code, the frozen version for releases remains, well, frozen. [Read More]