Reminder that the #BOSC2025 and #ISMB2025 / #ECCB2025 / #ISMBECCB2025 abstract deadline is this Wednesday!
https://genomic.social/@BOSC/114157337524361072
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).
Reminder that the #BOSC2025 and #ISMB2025 / #ECCB2025 / #ISMBECCB2025 abstract deadline is this Wednesday!
https://genomic.social/@BOSC/114157337524361072
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
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!
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!
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
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.
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!
@OpenBio The next commit/pull request will put the #Biopython git repository’s default branch at over 16,000 commits!
#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
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/
Our Website is back online - although we're unsure what caused the CPU usage spike which triggered the precautionary shutdown by our hosting company.
The OBF website is currently down - our hosting have notified us of the problem. We don't have a estimated time for restoration yet, in the meantime much of the content is on https://github.com/obf although not as readily explored.
Another blog post from one of the OBF travel fellowship awardees:
Zehra Köksal: My unforgettable experience presenting accessible software to 1000 forensic experts https://www.open-bio.org/2024/09/26/zehra-koksal-isfg-experience/
OBF Newsletter September 2024 https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2024-09.md
TL;DR: Watch the #BOSC2024 recordings, save the date for #BOSC2025, share or apply for the upcoming OBF event fellowship application and join the Pydna hackathon!
Thank you @gedankenstuecke as editor
The second round of OBF Event Fellowship application is now open! This fellowship provides financial support to attend events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices. Apply via https://forms.gle/TNKBnrJvetXs6G7q6 by August 1, 2024.
#Biopython 1.84 has been released, see https://www.open-bio.org/2024/06/28/biopython-1-84-released/ or https://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2024-June/017055.html - or https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/biopython-184/NEWS.rst for the change-log. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Call for the first round of OBF Event Fellowship 2024 & overview of the last round of 2023 https://www.open-bio.org/2024/02/23/event-fellowship-2024-1/
This scheme aims to increase #diversity at events that promote #OpenSource #bioinformatics and/or #OpenScience. We invite applications seeking #FinancialSupport to attend relevant scientific events. Includes conferences, workshops, code fests, hackathons, training courses, collaborative sprints, informal meet-ups or other skill-building and networking events.
Last call for the @OpenBio & @BOSC newsletter (planned to be send out early next week)! 📰 🧬 :OpenAccess:
We are always happy to include community news from the intersection of #bioinformatics, #openscience, and #opensource.
So if you have any project updates, upcoming events etc. let me know – or leave a comment/suggested edit directly on GH at https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/pull/39
For the #opensource #bioinformatics crowd: I'm starting to prepare the next @OpenBio newsletter that tentatively will go out in early March. And as always we're looking to include community-updates too!
If you have any topics fitting the open bioinformatics scope, feel free to reply/DM here, or leave a comment/suggested edit directly on GH at https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/pull/39
High level summary at https://github.com/OBF/wiki/blob/main/README.md but look at the history and issue tracker for some of the gory details 😉