About three years ago I nervously responded to a blog post from the OBF looking for board member applications from […]
Would you like to make a difference in grassroots open bioinformatics?
February 12th, 2021 by Yo YehudiBOSC 2021 will be part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 (online)
February 12th, 2021 by Nomi HarrisBOSC is returning to ISMB in 2021, after a successful partnership with Galaxy for the first Bioinformatics Community Conference last […]
Domain names available for adoption
January 28th, 2021 by PeterThe OBF has two sets of domain names available for adoption by a non-profit or open source project: biows.org, biows.com, […]
Planning an online vs. an in-person conference: which is harder?
September 1st, 2020 by Nomi HarrisOnline. By at least a factor of two. Our recent article entitled Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference discusses […]
Getting introduced to Bioinformatics and Open Science through BCC 2020
August 19th, 2020 by Gigi KennethThe Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software […]
Announcing OBF (travel) fellowship awardees for 2020 round 1
May 8th, 2020 by Malvika SharanWe are delighted to announce that four awardees, Gigi Kenneth, Armando Blondel Djiyou Djeuda, Edidiong Etuk and Pengfei Fan, have been selected to receive the OBF travel fellowship for 2020 round 1, to support their participation in virtual events.