Tag: Community
Next OBF Travel Fellowship application deadline is Dec 15!
December 7, 2017 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program was launched in 2016 to help increase diverse participation at events promoting open source […]
BOSC 2017 in Prague, the land of stories (and beer)
November 21, 2017 :
This is a guest blog post from Farah Zaib Khan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
OBF visioning 2017
November 14, 2017 :
TL;DR: The OBF isn’t doing enough in public policy and advocacy around Open Science, and we are looking to recruit […]
Mailing list outage, and public board meeting update
November 12, 2017 :
This time of year we’d normally be having a public board meeting as part of our commitment to communication with […]
Biopython on Podcast.__init__
September 5, 2017 :
Podcast.__init__ describes itself as “The Podcast About Python and the People Who Make It Great”, and the most recent episode […]
OBF Travel Fellowship – BOSC session of the ECCB/ISMB 2017
August 28, 2017 :
This blog post is syndicated from a post on Jonathan Sobel’s blog, originally published July 27, 2017. Jonathan was supported […]
OBF Travel Fellowship – IGC Bioinformatics Training
August 27, 2017 :
This blog post is syndicated from a post on Vitalina Kirgizova’s blog, originally published June 6, 2017. Vitalina was supported […]
Biopython 1.70 released
July 11, 2017 :
Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.70 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]
Travel award recipients for April 2017
June 5, 2017 :
We had a huge response to this round of the OBF travel award. After reviewing the applications, the OBF board […]
BOSC 2017 keynote speakers
April 13, 2017 :
We’re delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, BOSC 2017, and our first sponsors. But […]
OBF Travel Fellowship – CWL week in London
April 5, 2017 :
This is a guest blog post from Anton Khodak, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
OBF Public Board of Directors Meeting
October 5, 2016 :
The OBF has at least one public board meeting per year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to […]
BOSC 2016 in Disney World with Donald Docker!
July 21, 2016 :
First I would like to congratulate OBF that supports diversity in the community with its travel awards initiative. I was […]
New BioJava Logo Design Competition
June 14, 2016 :
BioJava is organizing a design competition to come up with a new logo. Anybody can participate: The logo should look […]
First three OBF travel fellowships awarded
May 23, 2016 :
The first round of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program has granted funds to three open source bioinformatics software […]
Welcome to our Google Summer of Code 2016 students
April 25, 2016 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2016 program, and last Friday the selected students were […]
Phyloinformatics Summer of Code supports OBF Travel Fellowship Program
April 18, 2016 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is pleased to announce a gift of USD 18,125 from the Phyloinformatics Summer of Code toward […]
BOSC CodeFest 2016
March 28, 2016 :
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two day meeting focused on open source bioinformatics. We aim to encourage […]