Tag: Community
Watch the recording of the ISCBacademy webinar on growing open source communities
February 23, 2022 :
Yesterday we hosted the OBF/BOSC contribution to the ISCBacademy webinar. Our former OBF-board member and Open Life Science co-lead Yo […]
ISCBacademy webinar Feb 22: Yo Yehudi
January 20, 2022 :
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 15:00 UTC / 11am EDT Location: online webinar hosted by ISCB Speaker: Yo […]
OBF Membership Referendum
January 4, 2022 :
During our last public Board meeting, the OBF announced two new initiatives that are being proposed for approval by the […]
Creating an OBF-wide Code of Conduct
November 15, 2019 :
Among the core values shared across the OBF community are inclusiveness and welcoming newcomers to contribute, without discrimination. Every year […]
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.
Updates are coming!
November 19, 2018 :
About a year ago, the OBF shared plans to get more involved with the open science community, and followed up […]
New OBF logo
November 5, 2018 :
We have successfully crowd-sourced a new OBF logo! The process started at the OBF Birds of a Feather meeting at GCCBOSC […]
The color of bioinformatics: what is it and how can it be modified?
August 29, 2018 :
This is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend […]
City of roses they call it – Portland Oregon (USA)
August 18, 2018 :
How should I start describing the fruitful experience in this amazing city… First time ever in Portland, second time attending […]
GCCBOSC 2018 post-meeting report
July 27, 2018 :
This year, the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) and the Bioinformatics Community Conference (BOSC) met together to form the first Bioinformatics […]
Following up from BOSC’s OBF Birds of a Feather meeting
July 9, 2018 :
It was really great to meet so many of you at GCCBOSC this year! We will soon have a couple […]
Biopython 1.72 released
June 27, 2018 :
Dear Biopythoneers, I’m writing this in Portland at the GCC BOSC 2018 conference, where I will present the Biopython Project […]
Travel award recipients for April 2018
May 25, 2018 :
We had another great round of applications for the OBF Travel Fellowship this spring. After reviewing the applications, the OBF Board selected […]
Saving science from itself: A review of the 2018 eLife Innovation Sprint
May 22, 2018 :
This is a guest blog post from Anisha Keshavan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
Welcome to our Google Summer of Code 2018 students
April 24, 2018 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is again participating in the Google Summer of Code program this year. Last Monday the selected students […]
Welcome to our new board members!
March 20, 2018 :
As mentioned in our previous blog post, last Friday the OBF had a board of directors meeting. One of the […]
GCCBOSC 2018: A Bioinformatics Community Conference – Call for Abstracts
February 21, 2018 :
We are pleased to announce that abstract submission and early registration for GCCBOSC2018 are now open. This event brings our annual Bioinformatics Open […]
OBF Travel Fellowship – Coding in the Winter Wonderland: Galaxy Admin Training in Oslo, 2018
February 11, 2018 :
Sharing highlights of my unforgettable experience in the snowy white city of Oslo, Norway from the 7th to the 14th of January, 2018.