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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Please forward as appropriate and forgive multiple postings.
Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2009
An ISMB 2009 Special Interest Group (SIG)
Date: June 27-28, 2009
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
URL: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2009
Abstract submission via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=bosc2009
Important Dates
Monday, April 13: Abstract deadline
May 1, 2009: Notification of accepted abstracts
May 15, 2009: Early Registration ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Google is committed to run the Summer of Code program again this year. It will be for the 5th time.
In broad strokes, the program funds what you might call remote summer internships for students to contribute to an open-source software project. Projects (or umbrella organizations) wishing to participate in the program ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
O|B|F News feed is now available in Twitter! You are welcome to follow us.
Cheers,
The O|B|F Admins.
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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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