Biopython on Podcast.__init__

September 5th, 2017 by

Podcast.__init__ describes itself as “The Podcast About Python and the People Who Make It Great”, and the most recent episode […]

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 […]

BioPerl v1.7.0 released

September 25th, 2016 by

We 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

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 […]

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 […]

GSoC project Sambamba published in scientific journal

April 1st, 2015 by

(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

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.

OBF Google Summer of Code 2014 Wrap-up

February 23rd, 2015 by

In 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

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.