OBF accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014

February 28th, 2014 by

Open Bio is officially a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014! See Google’s official announcement for more details […]

OBF applies for Google Summer of Code 2014

February 17th, 2014 by

On Friday, OBF applied to be a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014. The core of our application […]

Call for Ideas for OBF’s 2014 Google Summer of Code

February 1st, 2014 by

Google Summer of Code is on again for 2014, and OBF is once again applying as a mentoring organization. Participating […]

BioPerl release 1.6.923

December 19th, 2013 by

The latest BioPerl release (v1.6.923) is now available on CPAN. This is a point release to address a few bugs, […]

Biopython 1.63 released

December 6th, 2013 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.63 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and (soon) from the Python Package Index (PyPI). […]

Biopython 1.63 beta released

November 12th, 2013 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.63 beta are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website. This is a beta […]

BioPerl v.1.6.910 released

September 7th, 2013 by

UPDATE: As a bit of time has passed since we originally intended to make a new release, I forgot that […]

Biopython 1.62 released

August 28th, 2013 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.62 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and from the Python Package Index (PyPI).

BioRuby 1.4.3.0001 Released

May 27th, 2013 by

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.3.0001. This new release fixes the following bugs. “gem install bio” […]

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 […]

BioRuby 1.4.3 released

August 21st, 2012 by

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.3. This new release fixes bugs existed in 1.4.2 and improves […]

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.

Biopython 1.60 released

June 25th, 2012 by

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.60 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and […]

BioJava 3.0.4 released

May 23rd, 2012 by

BioJava 3.0.4 has been released and is available from http://www.biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:Download as well as from the BioJava maven repository at http://www.biojava.org/download/maven/ […]

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!

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. […]