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Chris Mungall (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

 Open Knowledge Bases in the Age of Generative AI

(Keynote talk for joint BOSC/BOKR session) ABSTRACT: The scientific and clinical community relies on the active development of a wide range of interlinked knowledge bases in order to plan experiments, interpret omics data, and to help with the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

BOSC 2025 Keynotes

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.

Jacqueline Wahura: experience at the Royal Entomological Society Conference 2024

Starting in July 2019, OBF Board public meeting minutes can be found in our GitHub repository.

Meeting minutes after 2019

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.

Zehra Köksal: My unforgettable experience presenting accessible software to 1000 forensic experts

The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2024, round 1, is now open.

 The deadline for this round is 1 April 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.

Call for the first round of OBF Event Fellowship 2024 &amp; overview of the last round of 2023

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?

BOSC 2024 Schedule

Mélanie Courtot (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research)

 The Data Shows We Need Better Data

Big data, AI, LLMs… do they live up to the hype? In a bright and hopeful future, AI accelerates progress, revolutionizes healthcare, alerts us to health risks, and creates fresh career paths. Yet, in a bleaker outlook, it obliterates jobs, fosters rampant misinformation and increases inequity.

BOSC 2024 Keynotes

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.

Michell Salcan: My Wonderful Experience at LANET 2023 in Cusco, Peru

The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2023, round 2, is now open. The deadline for this round is

 1 August 2023

. 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.

Call for the second round of OBF Event Fellowship 2023 and the first 2023 round overview.

Going home after attending BOSC was a little bittersweet. It’s my favorite conference because it brings together such a welcoming group of people, and the lineup of talks typically offers a great balance of technical learning and community-building insights.

Crowdsourced highlights from BOSC 2022

’ello Co-Fest Friends! After failing to find a good spot for an in-person CoFest, we decided to have the CoFest remotely! I was really excited to meet you all at this event (and have you all meet each other) in the real world, but we’ll have to settle for doing that at BOSC (for those who are there).  By all means, don’t let this stop your in-person innovations! Want to meet up and work at a café? Do it! Hotel room? It’s your room!

Post-BOSC CoFest will be online

BOSC 2022 schedule at a glance (Scroll down to see the full lists of talks and posters.) BOSC 2022 Talk Schedule

 Coming soon!

For testing only: BOSC 2022 Schedule (duplicate)

CollaborationFest 2022   In conjunction with our annual meeting, BOSC, the OBF runs a collaborative event (formerly called CodeFest, short for coding festival, and now called CollaborationFest, or CoFest for short). At these events, participants work together to contribute contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases.

OBF/BOSC CollaborationFest 2022

We are excited to announce that BOSC and Bio-Ontologies will join forces for part of a day at ISMB 2022. The joint session will include talks chosen from abstracts submitted to BOSC or Bio-Ontologies, plus a keynote speaker who is well known in both the ontology and open science communities!  BOSC and Bio-Ontologies are two of the longest-running COSIs (Communities of Special Interest) at ISMB: BOSC started in 2000 and Bio-Ontologies in 1998.

BOSC and Bio-Ontologies: Even better together!

Date &amp; Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 15:00 UTC / 11am EDT  Location: online webinar hosted by ISCB  Speaker: Yo Yehudi, Open Life Science (former OBF board member and Google Summer of Code admin &amp; mentor)  Topic: Growing open source communities with internships  The ISCB, which runs the annual ISMB conference, is offering a series of ISCBacademy webinars hosted by the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), which include BOSC/OBF.

ISCBacademy webinar Feb 22: Yo Yehudi

The ISCB, which runs the annual ISMB conference, is offering a series of webinars hosted by the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), which include BOSC/OBF. These webinars are free to ISCB members.  The first BOSC/OBF ISCBacademy COSI webinar will take place on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at 15:00 UTC / 11am EDT, and will feature Mad Price Ball of the Open Humans Foundation speaking about “Open Sourcing Ourselves - Together.” Before Dr.

ISCBacademy webinar: Open Sourcing Ourselves - Together (Mad Price Ball)

The following outlines a potential new grant programme, subject to approval by the OBF membership in a formal vote, which the OBF board would hope to launch this year. Motivation   In 2016, the OBF introduced a “Travel Fellowship” to help individuals attend meetings, aiming to improve diversity in the bioinformatics community. Awardees were reimbursed (with receipts) after the event in which they participated, with a standard cap of USD $1000.

OBF Community Support Sponsorship

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.

Domain names available for adoption

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.

Google Summer of Code 2020 Wrap Up

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.

Biopython 1.78 released

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.

Call for applications for OBF Event Fellowship, Round 2 of 2020

We look forward to receiving lots of abstracts by the end of this week from people interested in presenting at the online Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020), which combines the Galaxy Community Conference, and our own Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC). The BCC2020 abstract submission deadline is Friday 8 May 2020.

BCC2020 (inc. BOSC 2020) abstracts due this week

As Europe experienced a record-breaking heat wave, BOSC 2019 attendees stayed cool in the Basel Congress Center (and many took breaks by floating down the Rhine). This was the 20th annual BOSC. In 2018, BOSC partnered with the Galaxy Community Conference in GCCBOSC2018;

Meeting report: BOSC 2019, the 20th Annual BOSC

BOSC 2019 Schedule (2020 schedule is coming soon!)  Schedule at a glance     Download the program without the abstracts [PDF, 15 pages]  Download the complete program including abstracts [PDF, 147 pages] Note to speakers   Please copy your slides to the podium computer during the break before your session. Also, we encourage presenters to upload their slides to the BOSC F1000 collection.

BOSC 2019 Schedule (for reference)

We have recently applied to Google for the OBF to be part of the Google Summer of Code 2019 programme, again with Kai Blin and Michael Crusoe as joint administrators. Last year, OBF GSoC 2018, was another good year with five students successfully completing their projects: Synchon Mandal (mentor Moritz Beber) “Adding methods to cobrapy for improved constraint-based metabolic modelling.” ( first blog bost;

Google Summer of Code 2018 wrap-up

We had a great round of OBF travel fellowship candidates in our last round of applications, and after review we extended offers to three deserving applicants: Malvika Sharan, Lindsay Rutter, and Sarker Kamruzzaman. They’ve all accepted the award, and we’re looking forward to hearing about their experiences! Congratulations to our December 2018 recipients:

 Malvika Sharan

will be attending BOSC at ISMB 2019 in Basel this July.

Travel award recipients for December 2018

Check out the complete BOSC 2020 conference schedule! Blog posts about BCC2020: Lessons learned from organizing a virtual conference; Why planning an online conference is hard. BOSC 2020   BCC2020, the first Bioinformatics Community Conference, brought together the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) and the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) in a joint ONLINE meeting in July 2020.

BOSC 2020 Online

Dear Biopythoneers,  I’m writing this in Portland at the GCC BOSC 2018 conference, where I will present the Biopython Project Update 2018 talk tomorrow.

Biopython 1.72 released

BioJava 5.0.0 was released on the 23rd of March 2018. This represents a major milestone that brings more consolidation and reorganisation of modules. This is the first release to be based on Java 8, bring in your lambdas and stream API calls! The release represents work done in the last 2 years, alpha releases were available for quite some time and now this makes all the changes officially public.

BioJava 5.0.0 is out

This is a guest blog post from Farah Zaib Khan, who was supported by the ongoing Open Bioinformatics Foundation travel fellowship program to attend our annual conference BOSC 2017 and its preceding Codefest in Prague, July 2017. The OBF’s Travel Fellowship program continues to help open source bioinformatics software developers with funding to attend conferences or workshops.

BOSC 2017 in Prague, the land of stories (and beer)

This blog post is syndicated from a post on Jonathan Sobel’s blog, originally published July 27, 2017.

OBF Travel Fellowship - BOSC session of the ECCB/ISMB 2017

We are happy to announce the long-awaited release of BioPerl v1.7.0.  The release is now available on CPAN and Github. During this release series, we will move some extraneous code to separate repositories and CPAN releases, primarily to reduce the number of dependencies required for BioPerl installation (in many cases for modules that are never used) and also reduce maintenance overhead.

BioPerl v1.7.0 released

Dear Biopythoneers,  Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website, and the release is also on the Python Package Index (PyPI).  This release of Biopython supports Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 (we have now dropped support for Python 2.6). It has also been tested on PyPy v5.7, PyPy3.5 v5.7 beta, and Jython 2.7.  We have started to

Biopython 1.69 released

Agenda

 Venue:

To be held by conference call on Oct 4, 2016, 12.30pm EDT (16:30 UTC, 17:30 BST, 18:30 CEST, 9.30am PDT)

Minutes:2016 Oct ConfCall

Last year’s Google Summer of Code 2014 was very productive for the OBF with six students working on Bio* and related bioinformatics projects. We applied to be part of GSoC 2015, but unfortunately this year were not accepted. Google’s program is enormously popular, and over-subscribed, meaning Google has had to rotate organisation membership. The OBF is grateful to have been accepted in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014.

Sadly OBF not accepted for GSoC 2015

Source distributions and Windows installers for

 Biopython 1.63

are now available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website and (

 soon

) from the Python Package Index (PyPI). The current version removed the requirement of the 2to3 library. This was made possible by dropping Python 2.5 (and Jython 2.5). This release of Biopython supports Python 2.6 and

Biopython 1.63 released

I am very pleased to announce that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F) is now a Software in the Public Interest (SPI) associated project, rather than its own not-for-profit incorporation. An electronic vote of O|B|F members on whether or not to provisionally approve the invitation from SPI closed yesterday at 19:00 UTC.

OBF is now an SPI-associated project

Agenda   Old business  2010 BoD meeting minutes  2010 Financial Report  Action items from the 2010 meeting  New business BOSC BOSC 2011 (Nomi) - held with ISMB2011 in Vienna, Austria Money spent/made, attendee number, any other feedback BOSC 2012 - with ISMB 2012 in Long Beach, CA 2012 Organizing Committee chair Plans for the conference Google Summer of Code Org admin’s summary report (Rob Buels) Treasurer’s 2011

Minutes:2011 ConfCall

The latest BioPerl-DB, BioPerl-Run, and BioPerl-Network code has been released to CPAN: BioPerl-Run BioPerl-DB BioPerl-Network  Please report any bugs to our Redmine server. Enjoy!

BioPerl-DB, BioPerl-Run, BioPerl-Network 1.6.9 released

BioPerl 1.6.9 released

Call for Abstracts for the 12th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference ( BOSC 2011), an ISMB 2011 Special Interest Group (SIG).  Dates: July 15-16, 2011 Location: Vienna, Austria Web site: /wiki/BOSC_2011 Email: bosc@open-bio.org BOSC announcements mailing list: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce  Important Dates: April 18, 2011: Deadline for submitting abstracts to BOSC 2011 May 9, 2011: Notifications of accepted

Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2011) Call for Abstracts

This is another blog post to highlight one of the neat tricks you’ll be able to do with Biopython 1.54 (which you can help test with the Biopython 1.54 beta release).  It is often useful to be able to extract a few records from a larger sequence file - for example, some sequences of interest from a full UniProt or GenBank dump.

Partial sequence files with Biopython

I’m pleased to announce the acceptance of OBF’s 2010 Google Summer of Code students, listed in alphabetical order with their project titles and primary mentors:  Mark Chapman (PM Andreas Prlic) - Improvements to BioJava including Implementation of Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms  Jianjiong Gao (PM Peter Rose) - BioJava Packages for Identification, Classification, and Visualization of Posttranslational Modification of Proteins  Kazuhiro

O|B|F Google Summer of Code Accepted Students

Agenda  Old business 2009 BoD meeting minutes New business BOSC BOSC 2010 (Kam) - held with ISMB2010 in Boston, MA, USA Money spent/made attendee number, any other feedback BOSC 2011 - with ISMB 2011 Vienna, Austria 2011 Organizing Committee chairs Plans for the conference Treasurer’s 2010 report (ChrisD) 2010 Financial report BoD membership and succession. Kam Dahlquist is resigning from the BoD.

Minutes:2010 ConfCall

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this summer’s Google Summer of Code.  Our list of project ideas and mentors is linked from the O|B|F GSoC page. Student applications must be submitted to Google by

 April 9, 2010,

see the official GSoC 2010 FAQ. That is less than three weeks away!

O|B|F in Google Summer of Code

We are pleased to announce the release of BioRuby 1.4.0. This new release contains many new features, in addition to bug fixes and improvements.

BioRuby 1.4.0 released

We are pleased to announce the availability of Biopython 1.53, a new stable release of the Biopython library, three months after the release of Biopython 1.52. This is our first release since migrating from CVS to git for source code control.

Biopython 1.53 released

BioPerl 1.6.1 is now available for ActivePerl as a PPM, instructions for downloading can be found on the BioPerl wiki. This has been tested only for ActivePerl 5.10 and above, so any feedback with older versions of BioPerl would be greatly appreciated.

BioPerl core 1.6.1 PPM available

We are pleased to announce a beta release of Biopython 1.50 for public testing. There have been some significant changes since Biopython 1.49 was released late last year. GenomeDiagram by Leighton Pritchard has been integrated into Biopython as the Bio.Graphics.GenomeDiagram module. A new module Bio.Motif has been added, which is intended to replace the existing Bio.AlignAce and Bio.MEME modules.

Biopython 1.50 beta released

BioPerl has branched for 1.6 and the RC1 is up for testing as Chris announced.

BioPerl branched for 1.6, RC1 is up

Bioperl wiki is now running Mediawiki 1.8.2. nothing too different under the hood at this point, the mediawiki people probably have more to say in the release-notes.

Mediawiki updated

Upgraded MW install for some bugfixes and security fixes.

mediawiki 1.6.7

Installation instructions for Bioperl have been added to the main Bioperl website. They have been updated with links and tags for the wiki. Currently, both pages are accessible through links from Getting Bioperl and Installing Bioperl; these links will be subject to change. Please correct lins/tags/information as necessary.

Installation files added to website

I am pleased to announce the release of a new website for BioPerl. The site is based on the mediawiki software that was developed for the wikipedia project. We intend the site to be a place for community input on documentation and design for the BioPerl project. There is also a fair amount of documentation started surrounding bioinformatics tools and techniques applicable to using BioPerl and some of the authors who created these resources.

new Bioperl website

I installed the new Regulus theme, comments are welcome as to whether or not you like it.  It is possible to customize the color scheme and top-image as well if there are suggestions - perhaps we’ll build a header which incorporates our logo once that is decided.

New theme

The Developer Release (1.5.1) of BioPerl has been brought back into the FreeBSD Ports Collection. For instructions on how to install it, please take a look into the Getting Bioperl section of the BioPerl Wiki.

Developer Release in FreeBSD

A PopGen HOWTO added to the website for using the population genetics modules in Bioperl.  The PAML HOWTO is in-process of being updated to describe the new functionalilty.

PopGen HOWTO

Venue:

Renaissance Center in Detroit, on the first floor next to the Starbucks.

 Date:

June 23, 2005, 16:15.

 Call to order:

Board members present: Chris, Hilmar, Ewan, Andrew Others: Jason Stajich Chris / Treasurer’s Report Review of the accounts / passing the statements around Summary of response to the fraud attempt Request to activate the debit card. Granted.

Minutes:2005 BOSC Meeting

Bioperl 1.5.0 Developer’s release is available for download. http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.tar.bz2 425ac55ecbb4339b7b532ba6d429bb40  http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.tar.gz 172472f0675de9a583432e21c9b1b5fc  http://bioperl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.5.0.zip 3febcd2445a7393c65981a6f9f13a9ed  We’ll update the website to reflect this new release. The odd-numbered releases are called developer releases and are not deposited on CPAN.

Bioperl 1.5.0 released

Shawn Hoon announces the release of bioperl-run-1.2.0 which is an extention to the bioperl framework that contains modules that act as wrappers for common informatics applications.

bioperl-run 1.2.0 released

Members of the caCORE team at the NCICB have been discussing if and how best to use LSIDs. Attached is an analysis of the two LSID Resolution proposals. The document also includes brief descriptions of two use cases that seem appropriate to us. We would be very interested in any responses to this analysis.

NCICB reviews two LSID Resolution proposals

This is the last call for people to test drive and/or criticize the Bio::Ontology &amp; Bio::OntologyIO re-design and implementation. The interfaces and modules to look at comprise of Bio::Ontology::OntologyI, Bio::Ontology::TermI, and Bio::OntologyIO. If you care about implementations (as Aaron says most people do rather than bothering with interfaces), check out Bio::Ontology::Ontology, Bio::Ontology::Term, and Bio::OntologyIO.

Ontology overhaul: migration to 1.2 branch imminent

Hilmar writes:  Here’s the background. The current code in the bioperl-db adaptors to biosql run the connection with AutoCommit off, which means the client determines the transaction. Load_seqdatabase.pl (the main script for loading databases into biosql) treats one sequence entry as one transaction.

PostgreSQL issues with bioperl-db

Mark has updated his “Biojava in Anger” website to add three more tutorials.

3 new biojava tutorial entries

Available online at http://open-bio.org/newsletters/2002-08-newsletter.html

July 2002 O|B|F Newsletter

Available online at http://open-bio.org/pipermail/open-bioinformatics-foundation/2001-October/000001.html

October 2001 O|B|F Newsletter

Site URL is: http://open-bio.org/bosc2001 and the pictures from the event are available at http://gallery.open-bio.org/gallery/bosc2001

2001 Bioinformatics Open Source Converence

We invite you to join us for BOSC 2025, a vibrant gathering at the forefront of open-source bioinformatics and open science!

Announcing BOSC 2025; seeking keynote speaker nominations

Data Sustainability   In the rapidly evolving landscape of bioinformatics, research data is the bedrock of discovery, innovation, and progress. But how secure is this foundation for the future?

BOSC 2025 Panel

The websites and blog posts of the OBF go back a long way, with the first posts having been published all the way back in June 2001. Keeping them accessible and findable under stable links is not an easy feat, especially given that since 2001 we’ve changed the way we create and serve those pages more than once, most recently in March of this year.

Archiving the OBF blog via Rogue Scholar

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!

BOSC 2024 Videos Now Available

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.

Join us for CoFest 2024!

My Journey at the nf-core Hackathon and Nextflow Summit 2023: Coding and&nbsp;Community

In conjunction with our annual meeting, BOSC, the OBF runs a collaborative event (formerly called CodeFest, short for coding festival, and now called CollaborationFest, or CoFest for short). At these events, participants work together to contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases.

OBF/BOSC CollaborationFest 2024

This is the schedule for BOSC 2023  Go to full lists of the 2023 talks and posters BOSC 2023 Keynotes:  Sara El-Gebali: A New Odyssey: Pioneering the Future of Scientific Progress Through Open Collaboration Joseph Yracheta: The Dissonance between Scientific Altruism &amp;

BOSC 2023 Schedule

The OBF Community Support Sponsorship scheme aims to sponsor small open-source-focused events like a scientific meeting, small conference, training workshop, hackathon, or time-limited series like monthly seminars. See details in this post. One application was funded under this program to prototype the workflow, with OBF offering financial support for a seminar series hosted by the Bioinformatics Hub Kenya.

OBF Community Support Sponsorship scheme funds first pilot project

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 14, 11am EDT/ 15:00 (not 16:00!) UTC  Location: Online webinar hosted by ISCB and free to the public. (Video now available at https://youtu.be/M2vAotWKd_Q)

ISCBacademy webinar on Patient-Led Research

BOSC usually includes two or three keynotes. We want these invited speakers to be prominent individuals or emerging leaders who are accomplished in their fields, and whose work is likely to be informative and of interest to the bioinformatics open source community. Please see our invited speaker rubric for more information about our keynote speaker selection process and criteria.

Nominate a keynote speaker for BOSC 2023!

Date, Time, and How to Join

Date and time: 2022-10-21, 15:00 UTC (8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm UK) Agenda Board Officer Elections Chris Fields wishes to step down as Secretary, and Nomi Harris is standing for election to this role This will be an electronic ballot of the current board members Elections to the Board Iddo Friedberg, running for Board member at-large ( statement of interest) This will be an electronic ballot of the

OBF Public Board Meeting, 2022-10-21

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. Furkan M. Torun, Data Scientist at OmicEra Diagnostics &amp;

Furkan M. Torun: Highlights of my participation at PyCon IT 2022

Guest post by Thomas Schlapp, CoFest organizer   This year we’re looking to have another post-BOSC CoFest! Last year (my first year being involved in BOSC at all) showed me just how collaborative and innovative this community can be. I’d absolutely LOVE to see more of it again. Last year we saw six very fascinating projects see progress (look them over HERE!). Let’s see if we cannot do just a few more in the name of innovation and collaboration!

CollaborationFest 2022

Go to full lists of talks and posters See talk and poster videos on YouTube BOSC 2022 schedule at a glance Keynotes:  Jason Williams (joint keynote with Education COSI): Riding the bicycle — including all scientists on a path to excellence Melissa Haendel (joint keynote with Bio-Ontologies COSI): The open data highway: turbo-boosting translational traffic with ontologies Panel: Building and Sustaining Inclusive Open Science Communities See talk

BOSC 2022 Schedule

This page provides the OBFs affiliated project policy, alongside an FAQ around what it means to be a member project.

OBF Affiliated Project Policy

Announcement drafted by Malvika Sharan, Caleb Kibet and Hilya Zahroh, with the OBF Board’s input.

The call for applications for the OBF Event Fellowship 2022, round 1 is now open.

 The deadline for this round is 1 April 2022.

Applications should be submitted via this Google Form. We have provided a Word template to help you draft the application locally before filling the form – make a copy of this template.

Call for applications for OBF Event Fellowship, Round 1 of 2022

Yesterday we hosted the OBF/BOSC contribution to the ISCBacademy webinar. Our former OBF-board member and

 Open Life Science

co-lead Yo Yehudi presented how internship programs such as

 Google Summer of Code

or

 Outreachy

can be a great way to grow your open source community. If you missed the event, you can now watch the recording on YouTube.

Watch the recording of the ISCBacademy webinar on growing open source communities

Date, Time, and How to Join

Date and time: 2021-09-21, 17:00 UTC (10am PT / 1pm ET / 18:00 UK) Participation link: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/97312757115 Password: OBF2021 Meeting ID: 973 1275 7115 Agenda

 Approve minutes from the previous Public Board Meeting:

https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/87 Term expirations and Elections to the Board (electronic ballot) Hilyatuz Zahroh and Caleb Kibet, running for

OBF Public Board Meeting, 2021-09-21

The BOSC-OBF 2021 Event Support Fund was awarded to David Twesigomwe, a PhD student based at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB) - South Africa, to participate in BOSC 2021, an annual conference hosted by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF). Based on the OBF Event Fellowship program, this fund aimed to facilitate participation of diverse researchers from historically underrepresented groups at BOSC to help

David Twesigomwe: My BOSC 2021 Experience

The BOSC-OBF 2021 Event Support Fund enabled awardees to register for free for BOSC 2021, an annual conference hosted by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), which promotes and facilitates the open source bioinformatics development and open science.


 Based on the OBF Event Fellowship program, the BOSC-OBF support fund aimed to facilitate participation of diverse researchers from historically underrepresented groups at BOSC,

Gemma Turon: Highlights of my participation at the BOSC-2021 conference thanks to an OBF Event Fellowship

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.

Working on a CWL-Toil project with the Open Bioinformatics Foundation

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.

BOSC 2021 Schedule

There’s still a chance to


 submit your abstract


 in the Late Poster round, which closes June 3 at 11:59pm ET!


 
 What about late-breaking lightning talks?
 

Unfortunately/fortunately, we got so many high-quality abstracts in the early round, we were not able to save any talk slots for the late round.

BOSC late poster abstract deadline is June 3!

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.

BOSC 2021 Keynotes

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.

Call for applications for OBF Event Fellowship, Round 1 of 2021

BOSC 2021 will take place July 29-30, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Online.

Join us at BOSC 2021!

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.

Would you like to make a difference in grassroots open bioinformatics?

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.

A Software Engineer's Experience at BCC 2020

on behalf of the OBF Board members
 

We are delighted to announce that four awardees have been selected to receive the OBF travel fellowship for 2020 round 1, to support their participation in virtual events. The OBF travel fellowship is now offered 2 times a year to multiple awardees towards supporting their participation in scientific workshops, conference and training events.

Announcing OBF (travel) fellowship awardees for 2020 round 1

Two awardees were chosen during the latest round of the OBF Travel Fellowship program, which closed on December 1, 2019. The program, which started in 2018, provides some travel funding to selected applicants who, by attending events in open source / open science, will help to promote diversity in the community.

OBF Travel Fellowship awards for December 2019

OBF has been selected as a Google Summer of Code mentor organisation for the 5th consecutive time! We are proud to be hosting over 13 projects from various sub-organisations that aim to promote open science. This year OBF’s application was led by Sarthak Sehgal, Kai Blin, Yo Yehudi, and Michael Crusoe. Last year, GSoC 2019, was another good year with five students successfully completing their projects.