Tag: open-source
OBF Community Support Sponsorship scheme funds first pilot project
August 18, 2022 :
The OBF Community Support Sponsorship scheme aims to sponsor small open-source-focused events like a scientific meeting, small conference, training workshop, […]
BOSC and Bio-Ontologies: Even better together!
March 2, 2022 :
We are excited to announce that BOSC and Bio-Ontologies will join forces for part of a day at ISMB 2022. […]
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 […]
Join us at BOSC 2021!
March 24, 2021 :
BOSC 2021 will take place July 29-30, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online. Key Dates May 6, 2021 (11:59pm EDT): […]
H3ABionet’s Introduction to Bioinformatics Training (IBT) 2020: a report of the first iteration hosted in Cameroon
September 24, 2020 :
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
Supercharge your open project with leadership training
November 12, 2019 :
This post is co-authored by Bérénice Batut, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang, and Yo Yehudi. In 2016, Mozilla launched a program […]
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.
BOSC late-round abstract submission closes May 15!
May 9, 2019 :
If you’d like the opportunity to present your work at BOSC 2019 (which will take place in Basel, Switzerland, on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]