BOSC 2014 Keynote Speakers

December 24th, 2013 by

Thanks to those who participated in the BOSC 2014 Keynote Competition! Our winner is Manuel Corpas, who correctly surmised Philip […]

BOSC 2014 Keynote Competition

December 13th, 2013 by

We’re pleased to officially confirm that one of the two keynote speakers for the 15th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014, in Boston) will be C. Titus Brown, as he announced on Twitter recently – but can you guess the second keynote speaker?

BOSC 2013

July 17th, 2013 by

Hello from Berlin, where the pre-BOSC informal CodeFest 2013 meeting is already underway. We’re looking forward to seeing even more […]

Biopython 1.61 released

February 5th, 2013 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.61 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and […]

OBF Board meeting 13 Nov

November 6th, 2012 by

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) will be holding a public Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, 13 Nov, 2012, at […]

OBF is now an SPI-associated project

October 12th, 2012 by

I am very pleased to announce that as of the SPI’s Board meeting that took place yesterday, O|B|F is now an SPI-associated project.

Travis-CI for Testing

July 30th, 2012 by

BioRuby, Biopython and BioPerl are now using Travis-CI.org, a hosted continuous integration service for the open source community, to run their unit tests automatically whenever their GitHub repositories are updated.

Students selected for GSoC

April 24th, 2012 by

Hello all, I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has selected 5 very capable students […]

Announcing OBF Summer of Code 2012

March 25th, 2012 by

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 […]

OBF accepted for GSoC 2012

March 16th, 2012 by

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

Call for abstracts for BOSC 2012

March 5th, 2012 by

Call for Abstracts for the 13th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2012), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB […]

Cross-links in GenomeDiagram

March 2nd, 2012 by

I’ve just finished writing up an example for the Biopython Tutorial of the new GenomeDiagram functionality added in Biopython 1.59. […]

Biopython 1.59 released

February 24th, 2012 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.59 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI).

OBF Annual Meeting 2011

October 28th, 2011 by

The annual Board of Directors Meeting of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation will take place on November 8, 2011. As in previous years, it will be held by conference call, estimated to be about 2 hrs long.

Chromosome Diagrams in Biopython

October 28th, 2011 by

One of the new things coming in Biopython 1.59 is improved chromosome diagrams, something you may have seen via Twitter. […]

Biopython 1.58 released

August 18th, 2011 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.58 are available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and from […]

OBF and Google Summer of Code 2011

March 18th, 2011 by

Google announced today the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2011 Google Summer of Code!

Biopython dropping Python 2.4 Support?

November 18th, 2010 by

The forthcoming Biopython 1.56 release is planned to be our last release to support Python 2.4. If you would be negatively affected us dropping support for Python 2.4, please let us know as soon as possible.