The call for application for the second round of this year’s Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship is open. Please submit your application before October 1, 2021 (save a calendar reminder). Just announced: deadline extended to October 4, 2021!

BOSC 2021, which is a track (COSI) of ISMB/ECCB 2021, will take place online the 29th and 30th of July. The complete schedule is here. The event is being held in the Showcare platform – check out our tips for making the most of your online conference experience. We invite all attendees to join us at the pre-BOSC happy hour at the BOSC [roundtable](http://All attendees are invited to our pre-BOSC happy hour today from 17:30-18:30 UTC!

This is a guest post from Mihai Popescu, a GSoC student with CWL, which participates under the OBF umbrella. Cross-posted on the CWL forums: https://cwl.discourse.group/t/working-on-a-cwl-toil-project-with-the-open-bioinformatics-foundation/390 I am Mihai Popescu, a second year master student at VU Amsterdam in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems.

Birds of a Feather (BoFs) Birds of a Feather (BoFs) are informal, self-organized meetups focused on specific topics. They are a great way to meet other like-minded community members and have an in-depth discussion on a topic of shared interest.

This post is guest-posted by Federica Trevisan, an OBF GSoC student with the Wellcome Trust.

OBF students and mentors at an OBF kickoff call Every year the OBF applies to participate as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code, a paid work experience program where students get the chance to do paid work on an open source project and open source organisations host the students to work on their projects.

Birds of a Feather (BoFs) are informal, self-organized meetups focused on specific topics. They are a great way to meet other like-minded community members and have an in-depth discussion on a topic of shared interest. BoFs at ISMB/ECCB 2021 will take place each day of the meeting except the last day, at the same time as the poster session (not ideal, we know–but there are only so many viable hours in the day), from 15:20-16:20 UTC.

Thanks to funding from our sponsors, we are opening a special call for applications to the BOSC-OBF Event Support Fund.

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program supports and encourages diverse participation at events focusing on open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.

The BOSC 2021 talks and poster videos are now available on YouTube! BOSC 2021 schedule at a glance (Scroll down to see the whole schedule.) BOSC 2021 Talk Schedule The schedule below includes keynote talks, talks from submitted abstracts, and relevant Birds of a Feather. (Scroll down to see the whole schedule.) For more details, including short abstracts, see the ISMB/ECCB BOSC schedule.

Biopython 1.79 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This is the final release supporting Python version 3.6. It also supports Python versions 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9, as well as PyPy 3.6.1 v7.1.1. The major changes in this version are listed below: - The Seq and MutableSeq classes in Bio.Seq now inherit from the same base class, ensuring their mutual consistency.