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September 5th, 2017 by PeterBiopython 1.70 released
July 11th, 2017 by PeterDear 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 PeterDear Biopythoneers, Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython […]
BioPerl v1.7.0 released
September 25th, 2016 by Chris FieldsWe are happy to announce the long-awaited release of BioPerl v1.7.0. The release is now available on CPAN and Github. During this release […]
BioRuby 1.5.1 released
September 7th, 2016 by Naohisa GotoWe 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 PeterDear 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 andreasBioJava 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 PeterThis 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 Kai BlinThe 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 Brad ChapmanThe Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is a two day meeting focused on open source bioinformatics. We aim to encourage […]
Biopython 1.66 released
October 21st, 2015 by PeterSource 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 Naohisa GotoWe are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.5.0. This new release includes support of recent Ruby versions (Ruby […]
GSoC project Sambamba published in scientific journal
April 1st, 2015 by Pjotr Prins(This is a repost of a BLOG on Google Open Source news about Google’s open source student programs and software […]
Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015
March 3rd, 2015 by PeterLast 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.
OBF Google Summer of Code 2014 Wrap-up
February 23rd, 2015 by Hilmar LappIn 2014, OBF had six students in the Google Summer of Code 2014™ (GSoC) program mentored under its umbrella of […]
Biopython 1.65 released
December 17th, 2014 by PeterSource 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 Tiago AntaoSource 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 Eric TalevichI’m pleased to announce the acceptance of OBF’s Google Summer of Code 2014 (GSoC) students.