Farah presents CWLProv at GCCBOSC 2018 The next round of our OBF Travel Fellowships just ended on the 15th of December! This round we have introduced a Review Chair coming from the midst of our community that will help us in reviewing the applications. The role will be filled by Farah Zaib Khan, one of our OBF Travel Fellowship alumni. Farah has successfully applied for the Fellowship twice before.
Starting in July 2019, OBF Board public meeting minutes can be found in https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/tree/master/minutes.
Dear Biopythoneers, Biopython 1.73 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This release of Biopython supports Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6. It has also been tested on PyPy2.7 v6.0.0 and PyPy3.5 v6.0.0. As in recent releases, more of our code is now explicitly available under either our original " Biopython License Agreement" , or the very similar but more commonly used “3-Clause BSD License” .
Board of Directors The Board can be contacted via email at board@open-bio.org (or, in case of mailing list problems, try obf-board@googlegroups.com as a fallback) You can also find us on LinkedIn.
The OBF has a process for projects in the open bioinformatics realm to become members or affiliated members. Here you can find the existing member projects, affiliated projects and other related open bioinformatics projects. Member Projects BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data.
OBF Event Fellowships The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) promotes open source bioinformatics software development and open science in the biological research community. The OBF Event Fellowship program is aimed at increasing diverse participation at events promoting open science practices such as resource development and dissemination in the bioinformatics and biological research community.
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About a year ago, the OBF shared plans to get more involved with the open science community, and followed up by recruiting two board members for this purpose. Since then, we’ve tried to keep up momentum and community engagement - during GCCBOSC, we held an OBF Birds of Feather meeting, allowing members of the board to meet with attendees and discuss their needs and interests.
We have successfully crowd-sourced a new OBF logo! The process started at the OBF Birds of a Feather meeting at GCCBOSC 2018 when the OBF leaders announced that we were seeking a new logo design. Two BoF participants immediately started sketching ideas, as well as a third community member who was not at the BoF but saw our tweet. The designs (which you can see here) were put up for a public vote.
We recently discovered that the application to join the OBF (linked from the OBF membership page) was not working. It broke some time after August 31. We have now replaced it and it is working once again. If you applied for OBF membership between September 1 and yesterday, please go to the new form (https://goo.gl/x9KYWL) and resubmit your application. We apologize for the inconvenience!
This is a guest blog post from Tendai Mutangadura, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend the GCCBOSC 2018 meeting in Portland, June 2018. The OBF’s Travel Fellowship program continues to help open source bioinformatics software developers with funding to attend conferences or workshops. This was one of three awards from our April 2018 travel fellowships call.