About the OBF
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is a non-profit, volunteer-run group that promotes open source software development and Open Science within the biological research community. Membership in the OBF is free and open to anyone who wants to help promote open source or open science in a biological field.
OBF runs the annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC).
BOSC 2025 will be July 21-22, 2025, in Liverpool, UK (as part of ISMB/ECCB 2025). BOSC 2024 took place July 15-16, 2024, as part of ISMB 2024 in Montréal, Canada.
OBF Event Awards
The OBF Event Fellowship program aims to increase diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software development and open science in the biological research community.
Announcing OBF Google Summer of Code Accepted Students
BioPerl-DB, BioPerl-Run, BioPerl-Network 1.6.9 released
The latest BioPerl-DB, BioPerl-Run, and BioPerl-Network code has been released to CPAN:
Please report any bugs to our Redmine server.
Enjoy!
chris
BioPerl 1.6.9 released
Biopython 1.57 released
OBF and Google Summer of Code 2011
Introduction of OpenID logins for OBF wikis
OBF Redmine server now available
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2011) Call for Abstracts
BOSC 2010 Proceedings published today in BMC Bioinformatics
On behalf of the BOSC 2010 Organizing Committee, I am pleased to announce that the BOSC 2010 Proceedings has been published today in BMC Bioinformatics. Special thanks go to the abstract and proceedings reviewers who helped make this possible.