We had a great round of OBF travel fellowship candidates in our last round of applications, and after review we […]
Travel award recipients for December 2018
February 13th, 2019 by Farah Zaib KhanNew OBF logo
November 5th, 2018 by Nomi HarrisWe have successfully crowd-sourced a new OBF logo! The process started at the OBF Birds of a Feather meeting at GCCBOSC […]
OBF membership form fixed
October 26th, 2018 by Nomi HarrisWe recently discovered that the application to join the OBF (linked from the OBF membership page) was not working. It […]
The color of bioinformatics: what is it and how can it be modified?
August 29th, 2018 by Tendai MutangaduraThis is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend […]
City of roses they call it – Portland Oregon (USA)
August 18th, 2018 by Farah Zaib KhanHow should I start describing the fruitful experience in this amazing city… First time ever in Portland, second time attending […]
Taking Turns
August 2nd, 2018 by Nomi HarrisBOSC 2019 will be part of ISMB 2019 Every year until 2018, BOSC was part of the annual ISMB conference […]
Travel award recipients for April 2018
May 25th, 2018 by PeterWe had another great round of applications for the OBF Travel Fellowship this spring. After reviewing the applications, the OBF Board selected […]
Welcome to our Google Summer of Code 2018 students
April 24th, 2018 by Kai BlinThe Open Bioinformatics Foundation is again participating in the Google Summer of Code program this year. Last Monday the selected students […]
Welcome to our new board members!
March 20th, 2018 by Yo YehudiAs mentioned in our previous blog post, last Friday the OBF had a board of directors meeting. One of the […]
OBF Public Board Meeting to take place March 16, 2018 at 15:00 UTC
March 5th, 2018 by Nomi HarrisThe OBF Board of Directors holds a public meeting about once a year, in accordance with our bylaws. The next […]
OBF accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code 2018
February 23rd, 2018 by Kai BlinThe Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for the 2018 instance of the Google Summer of […]
GCCBOSC 2018: A Bioinformatics Community Conference – Call for Abstracts
February 21st, 2018 by PeterWe are pleased to announce that abstract submission and early registration for GCCBOSC2018 are now open. This event brings our annual Bioinformatics Open […]
Arun Decano awarded OBF Travel Fellowship
January 30th, 2018 by Nomi HarrisArun Decano is a PhD research fellow in the Infection Genomics Group at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. Her […]
Mailing list consolidation
December 15th, 2017 by PeterThe OBF’s self-hosted mailman server is still struggling right now, so we are looking at migrating the active mailing lists […]
Next OBF Travel Fellowship application deadline is Dec 15!
December 7th, 2017 by Nomi HarrisThe Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program was launched in 2016 to help increase diverse participation at events promoting open source […]
BOSC 2017 in Prague, the land of stories (and beer)
November 21st, 2017 by Farah Zaib KhanThis is a guest blog post from Farah Zaib Khan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship […]
OBF visioning 2017
November 14th, 2017 by Karen CranstonTL;DR: The OBF isn’t doing enough in public policy and advocacy around Open Science, and we are looking to recruit […]
Mailing list outage, and public board meeting update
November 12th, 2017 by Heather WienckoThis time of year we’d normally be having a public board meeting as part of our commitment to communication with […]