Biopython 1.70 released

July 11th, 2017 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions of Biopython 1.70 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release […]

Biopython 1.69 released

April 7th, 2017 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]

OBF Travel Fellowship – CWL week in London

April 5th, 2017 by

This is a guest blog post from Anton Khodak, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]

BioRuby 1.5.1 released

September 7th, 2016 by

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.1. In this new release, NCBI Entrez web client classes, Bio::NCBI::REST […]

Biopython 1.68 released

August 26th, 2016 by

Dear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.68 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]

New BioJava Logo Design Competition

June 14th, 2016 by

BioJava is organizing a design competition to come up with a new logo. Anybody can participate: The logo should look […]

Biopython 1.67 released

June 8th, 2016 by

This was long over-due, but Biopython 1.67 was released earlier today. The most recent delay was due to migrating our website from […]

Welcome to our Google Summer of Code 2016 students

April 25th, 2016 by

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2016 program, and last Friday the selected students were […]

BOSC CodeFest 2016

March 28th, 2016 by

The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two day meeting focused on open source bioinformatics. We aim to encourage […]

BOSC 2016 Call for Abstracts

March 1st, 2016 by

Call for Abstracts for the 17th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2016), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB 2016. […]

Biopython 1.66 released

October 21st, 2015 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.66 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from […]

BioRuby 1.5.0 released

July 2nd, 2015 by

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.0. This new release includes support of recent Ruby versions (Ruby […]

BOSC 2015 call for Abstracts

March 5th, 2015 by

Call for Abstracts for the 16th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2015), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of ISMB/ECCB 2015.

Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015

March 3rd, 2015 by

Last year’s Google Summer of Code 2014 was very productive for the OBF with six students working on Bio* and related bioinformatics projects. We applied to be part of GSoC 2015, but unfortunately this year were not accepted.

Biopython 1.65 released

December 17th, 2014 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.65 are now available. The most visible change is that the Biopython sequence objects now use string comparison, rather than Python’s object comparison.

Biopython 1.64 released

May 29th, 2014 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.64 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI). This release […]

OBF Google Summer of Code students 2014

April 26th, 2014 by

I’m pleased to announce the acceptance of OBF’s Google Summer of Code 2014 (GSoC) students.

Catering at BOSC CodeFest 2014

April 2nd, 2014 by

Bioinformatics Open Source Codefest, July 9 and 10th in Boston, now with sponsored food and drinks!