Tag: Community

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.

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 […]