Biopython 1.83 released

January 10th, 2024 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Our first release of 2024 is now out, sooner than planned as this is purely to revert the […]

Biopython 1.82 released

December 22nd, 2023 by

Biopython 1.82 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. Our second release of 2023 is now out, albeit way […]

Domain names available for adoption

January 28th, 2021 by

The OBF has two sets of domain names available for adoption by a non-profit or open source project: biows.org, biows.com, […]

Google Summer of Code 2020 Wrap Up

November 4th, 2020 by

OBF was accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code this year. It was another good year for […]

Biopython 1.78 released

September 4th, 2020 by

Biopython 1.78 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. The main change is that Bio.Alphabet is no longer used. […]

Biopython 1.77 released

May 25th, 2020 by

Biopython 1.77 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This is the first release since we […]

Biopython 1.76 released

December 20th, 2019 by

Biopython 1.76 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. Coming relatively soon after our last release, the timing is […]

Biopython 1.75 released

November 7th, 2019 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.75 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports Python 2.7, 3.5, […]

Biopython 1.74 released

July 16th, 2019 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.74 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports […]

A week of open source adventures in San Diego

March 13th, 2019 by

This 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

We have recently applied to Google for the OBF to be part of the Google Summer of Code 2019 programme, […]

Biopython 1.73 released

December 18th, 2018 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.73 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports […]

Biopython 1.72 released

June 27th, 2018 by

Dear Biopythoneers, I’m writing this in Portland at the GCC BOSC 2018 conference, where I will present the Biopython Project […]

Welcome to our Google Summer of Code 2018 students

April 24th, 2018 by

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is again participating in the Google Summer of Code program this year. Last Monday the selected students […]

BioJava 5.0.0 is out

April 9th, 2018 by

BioJava 5.0.0 was released on the 23rd of March 2018. This represents a major milestone that brings more consolidation and […]

Biopython 1.71 released

April 4th, 2018 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.71 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]

OBF accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code 2018

February 23rd, 2018 by

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for the 2018 instance of the Google Summer of […]

Mailing list consolidation

December 15th, 2017 by

The OBF’s self-hosted mailman server is still struggling right now, so we are looking at migrating the active mailing lists […]