Tag: Development

Biopython 1.82 released

December 22, 2023 :

Biopython 1.82 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. Our second release of 2023 is now out, albeit way […]

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 […]

BioJava 5.0.0 is out

April 9, 2018 :

BioJava 5.0.0 was released on the 23rd of March 2018. This represents a major milestone that brings more consolidation and […]

Biopython 1.71 released

April 4, 2018 :

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.71 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Biopython 1.69 released

April 7, 2017 :

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]

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 […]

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 […]

Biopython 1.67 released

June 8, 2016 :

This was long over-due, but Biopython 1.67 was released earlier today. The most recent delay was due to migrating our website from […]

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 […]

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 […]

Biopython 1.66 released

October 21, 2015 :

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.66 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from […]

GSoC project Sambamba published in scientific journal

April 1, 2015 :

(This is a repost of a BLOG on Google Open Source news about Google’s open source student programs and software […]

Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015

March 3, 2015 :

Last year’s Google Summer of Code 2014 was very productive for the OBF with six students working on Bio* and related bioinformatics projects. We applied to be part of GSoC 2015, but unfortunately this year were not accepted.

OBF Google Summer of Code 2014 Wrap-up

February 23, 2015 :

In 2014, OBF had six students in the Google Summer of Code 2014™ (GSoC) program mentored under its umbrella of […]

Biopython 1.65 released

December 17, 2014 :

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.65 are now available. The most visible change is that the Biopython sequence objects now use string comparison, rather than Python’s object comparison.