Archive for the ‘General’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
The BOSC 2002 pictures have been migrated to the O|B|F gallery site hackathon2002.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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!
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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/
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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." ...
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