Bioinformatics Open Source Codefest, July 9 and 10th in Boston, now with sponsored food and drinks!
Catering at BOSC CodeFest 2014
April 2nd, 2014 by PeterCall for Organization Admins for OBF’s 2014 Google Summer of Code participation
January 14th, 2014 by Hilmar LappUpdate: The deadline for responding has been extended to January 25. The 2014 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is coming […]
BioPerl release 1.6.923
December 19th, 2013 by Chris FieldsThe 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 Tiago AntaoSource 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 Tiago AntaoSource 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 Chris FieldsUPDATE: 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 PeterSource 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).
BOSC 2013
July 17th, 2013 by PeterHello from Berlin, where the pre-BOSC informal CodeFest 2013 meeting is already underway. We’re looking forward to seeing even more […]
BioRuby 1.4.3.0001 Released
May 27th, 2013 by Naohisa GotoWe 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 PeterSource distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.61 are now available from the downloads page on the Biopython website and […]
OBF 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 […]
Server transition process to AWS servers
November 4th, 2012 by Jason StajichOur aging server which has run for 5+ years the OBF sites has finally reached end of its lifespan. We […]
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.
BioRuby 1.4.3 released
August 21st, 2012 by Naohisa GotoWe 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 PeterBioRuby, 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 PeterSource 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 andreasBioJava 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 PeterHello all, I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has selected 5 very capable students […]