BOSC 2014 Keynote Competition

December 13th, 2013 by

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?

OBF Board meeting 13 Nov

November 6th, 2012 by

The 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

I 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

The 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

BioPerl 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

The 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

BioPerl 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

Just 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

The 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

I’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

Two 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

We 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

Alan 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

Just 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

A 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

Please 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

Google 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

O|B|F News feed is now available in Twitter! You are welcome to follow us. Cheers, The O|B|F Admins.