Open Bioinformatics Foundation

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The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization that supports #OpenSource #bioinformatics. Our member projects include #BioPerl, #BioJava, #BioRuby and #Biopython. We run an annual meeting, the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (@BOSC).
Home Pagehttps://www.open-bio.org/
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GitHubhttps://github.com/OBF
Open Bioinformatics FoundationApr 15
Reminder that the #BOSC2025 and #ISMB2025 / #ECCB2025 / #ISMBECCB2025 abstract deadline is this Wednesday!
https://genomic.social/@BOSC/114157337524361072
BOSC (OpenBio's Conference) (@BOSC@genomic.social)

Submit your abstract about #OpenSource #Bioinformatics to #BOSC2025! Deadline is April 17 (sorry, no extensions). More info: https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2025/ 馃崘

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Open Bioinformatics FoundationApr 2

Our website is now also participating in the @rogue_scholar to ensure our blog posts are archived and searchable!

https://rogue-scholar.org/search?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=oldest

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Open Bioinformatics FoundationMar 3
We have moved our website https://open-bio.org/ from a hosted #WordPress instance to #Hugo running on #GitHubPages, with a new look and feel (and light/dark themes) but preserving all the content. Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen!
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About the OBF The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is a non-profit, volunteer-run group that promotes open source software development and Open Science within the biological research community. Membership in the OBF is free and open to anyone who wants to help promote open source or open science in a biological field. OBF runs the annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC). BOSC 2025 will be July 21-22, 2025, in Liverpool, UK (as part of ISMB/ECCB 2025).

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Open Bioinformatics FoundationFeb 3
Bastian Greshake TzovarasFeb 3

The latest @OpenBio newsletter is now out, also available here: https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2025-02.md

There's some updates on #BOSC2025, the maximum funding amount of our event fellowship has been increased, and: We're looking for projects for the upcoming #GSoC!

newsletter/newsletters/2025-02.md at master 路 OBF/newsletter

repo for OBF community newsletter updates. Contribute to OBF/newsletter development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Open Bioinformatics FoundationFeb 3
Bastian Greshake TzovarasFeb 3

For the #opensource #openscience #bioinformatics folks: The next @OpenBio newsletter will go out this afternoon (Argentina time).

Last chance to get your community updates in: https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/pull/44

Create 2025-02 newsletter by gedankenstuecke 路 Pull Request #44 路 OBF/newsletter

See #42 for the open issue related to this

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Show threadOpen Bioinformatics FoundationJan 28
Our website https://www.open-bio.org/ is back online, we think it was a effectively a #DenialOfService attack from a rogue bot site scraping - which pushed the server over the hosting's burst CPU limit threshold.
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Show threadOpen Bioinformatics FoundationJan 27

And the website is offline again, another CPU usage spike trigging a precautionary shutdown by the hosting company.

See https://obf.github.io/ in the interim which already has most of the static content, and all the pages migrated from MediaWiki. The WordPress content is next!

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Open Bioinformatics FoundationJan 15
Show threadPeter CockJan 15
@OpenBio The next commit/pull request will put the #Biopython git repository鈥檚 default branch at over 16,000 commits!
Open Bioinformatics FoundationJan 15

#Biopython 1.85 released, supports Python 3.9 through 3.13 and PyPI. https://biopython.org/

Pre-compiled wheels available on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/biopython/1.85/ with #CondaForge to follow soon https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/biopython

Biopython 路 Biopython

Open Bioinformatics FoundationJan 10
BOSC (OpenBio's Conference)Jan 10

Greetings! We invite you to join us for #BOSC2025, a vibrant gathering at the forefront of #OpenSource #bioinformatics and #OpenScience!
BOSC 2025 will be held July 21-22 in Liverpool, UK (and online) as part of #ISMB / #ECCB 2025 (#ISMBECCB2024).

We are seeking keynote speaker nominations: https://www.open-bio.org/2025/01/09/nominate-keynotes-bosc2025/