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.

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Poster session at GCCBOSC2018

OBF Treasurer Heather Wiencko introducing OBF at BOSC 2024

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.

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Ruth Nanjala, an OBF Travel Award winner, by her poster

RSS feeds

 Posted on April 28, 2006  |  stajich

I’ve added a page about RSS feeds in BioPerl. These include links to CVS commits as a RSS feed. This a bit of a hack using cvs2rss and cvs2cl and I have hardcoded it to show the last 30 commits only. In addition RSS news is now embedded on the main BioPerl and Tracking CVS commits webpages to make for better interlinking between the news and wiki site ( you might even be reading this there). [Read More]

BioPerl Mailing List Summaries

 Posted on April 11, 2006  |  cjfields

The first of a biweekly summary of BioPerl mailing list summaries has been posted to the wiki:

These will likely be archived on the wiki but may be moved to a more suitable location in the future (maybe to this blog?).

Weekly Mailing List Traffic Summaries

 Posted on April 5, 2006  |  cjfields

I plan on starting a weekly, possibly biweekly, summary of mailing list traffic. These will be somewhat in the same vein as the Perl5 or Perl6 summaries and will be posted on the blog here and sent to the bioperl-l mail list. Barring another natural disaster here, these should start up next week (covering mail list traffic starting from April 1). The summaries will cover traffic mainly from bioperl-l (the main mail list) but will include biosql-l, since it’s fairly low traffic, and bugs/module updates from bioperl-guts-l. [Read More]

CVS server move

 Posted on March 25, 2006  |  stajich

The CVS repository is migrating from ‘pub’ to a new host called ‘dev’ and requires us to re-issue accounts. This will be a good opportunity to verify email addresses and remove unused accounts. You should have received an email from Chris D requesting specific information and you will get a new password in the response. If not you will need to send a note to the helpdesk at support_AT_open-bio.org. The changover will happen around March 25th. [Read More]

Developer accounts re-issued

 Posted on March 24, 2006  |  stajich

We are moving developer repository to a new server which will require you to get a new developer account. To fix your local repository you should be able to run this on your local repository: $ find bioperl -name 'Root' | xargs perl -i.backup -p -e 's/pub.open/dev.open/' or just check out a clean version. Note that before (and sometime ON) the 25th of March anything that is committed to the dev machine CVS repository will likely get wiped out so it is best to either hold off commits on the 25th or keep copies of stuff around. [Read More]

More website updates

 Posted on February 13, 2006  |  stajich

Wordpress 2.0.1 installed. Presumably no major differences to be seen but some bug fixes installed. A Wiki spam filter was installed, we’ll see how well it performs but trying to cut down on spammers. We also will try and setup a RSS feed on the wiki main page so that news feeds from this site (and perhaps other open-bio sites) will be scrolled on the main BioPerl website. There are nice plugins for this in wikimedia we just need to find the time to do the install and testing. [Read More]