BOSC 2021 BOSC 2021 is over! Part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 online, BOSC took place July 29-30, 2021, with CoFest following on July 31 - Aug 1. We thank all the participants and our sponsors, who enabled us to grant free registration to 20 participants around the world! Check out the complete BOSC 2021 talk schedule, and videos of all the talks! The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) has been held annually since 2000.
OBF was accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code this year. It was another good year for OBF, with Kai Blin, Michael R. Crusoe, Sarthak Sehgal, and Yo Yehudi as administrators.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.
Biopython 1.78 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. The main change is that Bio.Alphabet is no longer used. In some cases you will now have to specify expected letters, molecule type (DNA, RNA, protein), or gap character explicitly. Please consult the updated Tutorial and API documentation for guidance. This simplification has sped up many Seq object methods.
Online. By at least a factor of two. Our recent article entitled Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference discusses some of our technology choices and how we leveraged them to put on a successful online meeting. That article touches briefly on some of the challenges we faced, but it doesn’t fully convey how much work it was–both in advance and during the event.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community. Pengfei Fan, a researcher from Queen Mary University of London, was supported to participate in CLEO 2020 by this fellowship granted to him in the application round-1 of 2020.
We are glad to announce that the call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 October 2020. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.
BCC2020 (the collaborative BOSC + GCC meeting) was held online, with over 800 people registered for some part of the meeting. We used Remo.co as the technology platform, along with Discord for chat. Read about why we chose those, how it worked out, and our tips for others who are organizing virtual conferences here.
After much discussion, the BCC2020 organizing committee has decided to hold the meeting on Remo.co, which is similar to Zoom but offers a more conference-like experience, with “floors” and “tables” where you can mingle with other attendees. It has great small group and presentation support, including for posters and demos. It’s also more fun than most online conference platforms.