Monthly Archives: March 2012

Announcing OBF Summer of Code 2012

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Peter

Applications due 19:00 UTC, April 6, 2012. http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Summer of Code program provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students to obtain hands-on experience writing and extending open-source software for bioinformatics under the … Continue reading →

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OBF accepted for GSoC 2012

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Peter

Google announced today that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012! Continue reading →

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Call for abstracts for BOSC 2012

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Peter

Call for Abstracts for the 13th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2012), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2012. Dates: July 13-14, 2012 Location: Long Beach, California Web site: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2012 Email: bosc@open-bio.org BOSC announcements mailing list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce Important … Continue reading →

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Cross-links in GenomeDiagram

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Peter

I’ve just finished writing up an example for the Biopython Tutorial of the new GenomeDiagram functionality added in Biopython 1.59. You can now control the start and end points of individual tracks, and you can add cross-links between regions of … Continue reading →

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