Christie Bahlai ( Kent State University) Significant heterogeneities: Ecology’s emergence as open and synthetic science ABSTRACT: Ecology has undergone several major cultural shifts in the past century. Eager to define the field as a ‘hard’ science distinct from natural history, early 20th century ecologists rigorously tested theory through intensive, controlled experiments, often working in relative isolation.

The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2021, round 1 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2021. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form. We invite applications from candidates who are seeking financial support to attend or host virtual events in 2021.

TL;DR: Nominate candidates or yourself for the OBF board via this form or work with OBF in other volunteer capacities. Nominations are welcome for the OBF Board election OBF is committed to promoting the practice and philosophy of Open Source software development and Open Science within the biological research community.

It’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application time again - I’ll be leading the OBF GSoC application and org admin process this year alongside Sarthak Sehgal, Michael Crusoe, and Kai Blin.

About three years ago I nervously responded to a blog post from the OBF looking for board member applications from people who were interested in leading open science related initiatives. This went as well as I possibly could have hoped - both myself and the other applicant, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, officially joined the board in March of 2018 for a three-year term.

BOSC is returning to ISMB in 2021, after a successful partnership with Galaxy for the first Bioinformatics Community Conference last year ( BCC2020 online). Originally slated to take place in Lyon, France, ISMB/ECCB 2021 announced today that the conference will be virtual. This news may be disappointing to some, but for others it offers an opportunity to participate in a conference that they would not have been able to travel to attend.

CollaborationFest 2020 As part of BCC2020, the first Bioinformatics Community Conference, the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) and the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) co-sponsored an online CollaborationFest, a 2 (or 4) day collaborative work event where our community gathered virtually to contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases.

The OBF has two sets of domain names available for adoption by a non-profit or open source project: biows.org, biows.com, biows.net and biocpp.org, biocpp.com, biocpp.net These domains were registered and donated to us with bio-web-services (biows) and bio-c-plus-plus (BioC++ or BioCPP) in mind, but we’ve failed to find a good home for them.

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. Dr. Laura Ación , a researcher at the Instituto de Cálculo, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina . She is also one of the co-founders of

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.