Archive for the ‘General’ Category

OBF Conference Call Board Meeting

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

The OBF Conference call is scheduled for 12:30PM to 2PM PST on Wednesday Nov 19, 2008.  Members of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and those interested in the decisions are invited to listen in and participate.  A brief agenda is available here. Please email Hilmar Lapp at hlapp _AT_ gmx.net for call ...

CVS server move

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

The CVS repository is migrating from 'pub' to a new host called 'dev' and requires us to re-issue accounts. This will be a good opportunity to verify email addresses and remove unused accounts. You should have received an email from Chris D requesting specific information and you will get a ...

Gallery updated

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

The BOSC 2002 pictures have been migrated to the O|B|F gallery site hackathon2002. (more...)

O|B|F Board of Directors Meeting

Friday, June 24th, 2005

The 2005 Board of Directors meeting for the Open Bioinformatics Foundation was held on Thursday, June 24th 2005 in Detroit, MI USA at the site of the BOSC2005 meeting. This was a major meeting and represents the first attempt to build a governance platform for the organization as well as set ...

site updated prior to server move

Friday, June 24th, 2005

The backend MovableType software powering this site was upgraded and the backend storage was switched from berkelyDB to SQL. These preparations are being done to ease the transition of http://news.open-bio.org to a new server. The primary purpose of this news entry is to confirm that the posting system still works ...

BioKnoppix

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

BioKnoppix is a new live CD linux, based on KNOPPIX, with EMBOSS 2.8.0, jemboss, artemis, clustalx, Cn3D, ImageJ, BioPython, Rasmol, Bioperl, Bioconductor. It being made available by The University of Puerto Rico High Performance Computing facility (HPCf) and the Puerto Rico Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN-PR). Great stuff!

Server downtime announcement

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

Hi Everyone, Apologies for the mass cross-posting but this email is about server and IP changes that will affect all of our projects and servers. Simply put -- Wyeth, the company that provides us with our hosting and wonderful T3 connection to the internet is cutting their internet connection circuits over from ...

BioPython 1.2.0 released

Sunday, July 27th, 2003

Available now at http://biopython.org/download/ Changes include: added Andrew Dalke's EUtils library added Michiel de Hoon's gene expression analysis package updates to setup code, now smarter about dependencies updates to test suite, now smarter about code that is imported Michael Hoffman's fixes to DocSQL syntax fixes in triemodule.c to compile on SGI, Python 2.1 compatible updates in NCBIStandalone, short ...

BOSC’2003 Pictures are online

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003

Our "Bioinformatics Open Source Conference" was held in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with the larger ISMB'2003 meeting. It was quite successful --- 96 attendees, wireless internet, BOF rooms and 30+ presentations over 2 days. Pictures are online here: http://gallery.open-bio.org/

Foundation views wrongly characterized in Genome Technology

Tuesday, March 25th, 2003

In the March 2003 issue of Genome Technology, "Opposite Strand" contributor Gerald Barnett's insightful article on "free choice for open source" is blighted by a gross misattribution. He writes that Open Bioinformatics Foundation has proposed that "all federally funded bioinformatics software should be released as open source." ...