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 talk videos from BOSC 2024 are now available on YouTube. They are also linked from the BOSC talk schedule (scroll down to “Talks”). Stay tuned - our full report on BOSC 2024 will be published soon!
Starting in July 2019, OBF Board public meeting minutes can be found in our GitHub repository.
Sponsoring BOSC 2024 We are thrilled to announce the four sponsors of BOSC 2024! Big thanks to these excellent organizations for supporting open source bioinformatics and enabling us to offer free registration to some qualified participants!
By Beatrice Mihalache Examining open source projects has been most useful to me while I am sharpening my coding skills, so I was excited to learn about the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference – BOSC. I am a rising senior at UCLA, studying biophysics and data science. I strongly believe in open source, so I submitted the work I’d done with my PI and my grad student collaborator for a poster presentation at BOSC.
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 1.84 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This contains about 5 months worth of updates, so the change-log in the news file is longer than usual. There have also been a few deprecations, most noteworthy this may be our last release with Python 3.9 support.
The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2024, round 2 , is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 August 2024. Applications should be submitted via this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling out the form – make a copy of this template.
This year will mark the 15th edition of the BOSC-associated CollaborationFest, or CoFest for short. At these events, participants work together on code, documentation, training materials, use cases, and analyses. CoFest 2024 will take place on July 17-18, right after ISMB and BOSC 2024. This will be a hybrid event, hosted at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal and online.
Open Source AI/ML: A Game Changer for Bioinformatics? Tired of locked-away algorithms hindering your research? This panel dives into the exciting world of open-source AI/ML for bioinformatics. Join BOSC in a conversation with renowned experts as they explore the potential of open models to revolutionize the field.
BOSC 2024 keynote speakers and panelists KEYNOTE: Mélanie Courtot: The Data Shows We Need Better Data KEYNOTE: Andrew Su: Open Data, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models Panel: Open Source AI/ML: A Game Changer for Bioinformatics?