OBF Travel Award recipient Michael Thompson writes about his experience at the Galaxy Admin Training 2020
Galaxy Admin 2020 and beyond (guest post by OBF Travel Award recipient Michael Thompson)
April 14th, 2020 by Michael ThompsonIn Memoriam: Galaxy’s co-founder, James Taylor
April 3rd, 2020 by Nomi HarrisThe Open Bioinformatics Foundation was shocked and saddened to learn that our colleague and collaborator James Taylor, a professor of […]
BOSC 2020 will be online
March 24th, 2020 by Nomi HarrisThe 2020 Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020), which brings together the BOSC and Galaxy communities, will take place online–more info here. […]
OBF Travel Fellowship 2020: Round 1 and BCC 2020
February 17th, 2020 by Malvika SharanWe are currently accepting applications for the first application round for the OBF Travel Fellowship 2020. Apply here.
Global Community Biosummit 2019 @MIT
December 17th, 2019 by Arunav KonwarThe Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) sponsors a Travel Fellowship program aimed at increasing diverse participation at events promoting Open Source […]
Call for OBF Travel Fellowship is Open until 1 December 2019
November 14th, 2019 by Malvika SharanThe call for OBF travel fellowship to select the next round of awardees is officially open! Please submit your application […]
Supercharge your open project with leadership training
November 12th, 2019 by Yo YehudiThis post is co-authored by Bérénice Batut, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang, and Yo Yehudi. In 2016, Mozilla launched a program […]
OBF Travel Fellowship: August 2019 awards
September 30th, 2019 by Nomi HarrisA record number of people applied for the latest round of the OBF Travel Fellowship, which closed on August 15, 2019. […]
5 tips to promote ‘water cooler effects’ at informal discussion sessions
August 27th, 2019 by Malvika SharanIn this post, Malvika Sharan discusses her top tips to organise informal discussion sessions that promotes water cooler effect. Such sessions are useful for collecting ideas, gaining perspectives, and engaging with others over serendipitous interactions based on topics of mutual interests.
Dos and Don’ts for computational training
August 27th, 2019 by Sara ElgebaliThanks to OBF support with a travel grant, I was able to attend the first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester […]
Next OBF Travel Fellowship Application Deadline: August 15, 2019
August 7th, 2019 by Nomi HarrisThe OBF Travel Fellowship program, established in 2016, aims to increase diverse participation at events related to open source bioinformatics. […]
Meeting report: BOSC 2019, the 20th Annual BOSC
August 1st, 2019 by Nomi HarrisAs Europe experienced a record-breaking heat wave, BOSC 2019 attendees stayed cool in the Basel Congress Center (and many took […]
Biopython 1.74 released
July 16th, 2019 by PeterDear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.74 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports […]
Travel Award Recipients For April 2019
May 31st, 2019 by Farah Zaib KhanWe are pleased to announce the April 2019 OBF Travel Fellowship recipients. The OBF Travel Fellowship program, established in 2016, […]
Goodbye mediawiki, hello new website!
April 8th, 2019 by Yo YehudiAbove: the old BOSC page. Below: the new one. If you’ve been around the OBF and BOSC community, you’re probably […]
2nd US Semantic Technology Symposium 2019
April 6th, 2019 by Md Kamruzzaman SarkerThis is a guest blog post from Md Kamruzzaman Sarker, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel […]
A week of open source adventures in San Diego
March 13th, 2019 by Lindsay RutterThis is a guest blog post from Lindsay Rutter, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
Google Summer of Code 2018 wrap-up
February 22nd, 2019 by PeterWe have recently applied to Google for the OBF to be part of the Google Summer of Code 2019 programme, […]