Tag: Development

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.

Biopython 1.64 released

May 29, 2014 :

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.64 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI). This release […]