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 2014 Keynote Competition
December 13th, 2013 by PeterOBF Board meeting 13 Nov
November 6th, 2012 by PeterThe 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 Hilmar LappI 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.
OBF Annual Meeting 2011
October 28th, 2011 by PeterThe 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.
BioPerl 1.6.9 released
April 14th, 2011 by Chris FieldsBioPerl 1.6.9 is now available in CPAN. In this release: Refactored Bio::Species/Bio::Tree New SeqIO modules (gbxml, msout, mbsout) Updates for […]
Biopython 1.54 released
May 20th, 2010 by andreasThe Biopython team is proud to announce Biopython 1.54, a new stable release of the Biopython library. Biopython 1.54 comes […]
BioPerl has moved to GitHub
May 14th, 2010 by Chris FieldsBioPerl has migrated to git and GitHub! We have also set up a mirror set of several key repositories at the […]
Reminder: BOSC Abstract Deadline April 15
April 7th, 2010 by Kam DahlquistJust a friendly reminder that abstracts for BOSC 2010 are due next Thursday, April 15. See the BOSC web site […]
BOSC 2010 Request for Input
December 18th, 2009 by Kam DahlquistThe BOSC organizing committee is soliciting input on the planning of BOSC 2010 so that we can make it a successful and productive conference for the O|B|F community. You may send your suggestions to the bosc@open-bio.org e-mail address or add suggestions to the BOSC 2010 talk/discussion wiki page at: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Talk:BOSC_2010. Please respond to the questions in this post by January 8, 2010.
Sanger FASTQ format and the Solexa/Illumina variants
December 17th, 2009 by PeterI’m delighted to announce an open access publication in Nucleic Acids Research describing the FASTQ file format based on the […]
BioPerl interview in latest FLOSS Weekly
November 22nd, 2009 by Chris FieldsTwo of the core BioPerl developers, Jason Stajich and Chris Fields, were interviewed by FLOSS Weekly. The interview is now […]
BioPerl 1.6.1 released
September 29th, 2009 by Chris FieldsWe are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BioPerl 1.6.1, the latest release of BioPerl’s core code. You can […]
BOSC Update: Ruttenberg, Hanmer confirmed as Keynotes, Early Registration Deadline Friday
May 13th, 2009 by Kam DahlquistAlan Ruttenberg of Science Commons and Robert Hanmer of the Hillside Group have been confirmed as Keynote Speakers for BOSC […]
Biopython on twitter
March 27th, 2009 by PeterJust to let you all know, Biopython is now on twitter. And in case you missed the OBF announcement last […]
Google Summer of Code: Project ideas page
March 10th, 2009 by MauricioA wiki page for collecting ideas, possible projects, prerequisites, possible solution approaches, mentors, other people or channels to contact for […]
BOSC 2009 Call for Abstracts
February 24th, 2009 by Kam DahlquistPlease forward as appropriate and forgive multiple postings. Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2009 […]
Google Summer of Code: Call for Bio* Volunteers
February 13th, 2009 by Hilmar LappGoogle is committed to run the Summer of Code program again this year. It will be for the 5th time. In […]
Hello, (twitter) world
February 11th, 2009 by MauricioO|B|F News feed is now available in Twitter! You are welcome to follow us. Cheers, The O|B|F Admins.