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O|B|F NewsOpenBio solution challenge: Project updates at BOSC 2010BioPerl at GMOD Meeting 2010BioRuby 1.4.0 releasedBOSC 2010 Request for InputSanger FASTQ format and the Solexa/Illumina variantsBiopython 1.53 released2009 O|B|F Board of Directors meetingInterleaving paired FASTQ files with BiopythonBioPerl interview in latest FLOSS WeeklyBioPerl core 1.6.1 PPM available
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The Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics.
The foundation grew out of the volunteer projects BioPerl, BioJava and Biopython and was formally incorporated in order to handle our modest requirements of hardware ownership, domain name management and funding for conferences and workshops.The Foundation does not participate directly in the development or structure of the open source work, but as the members of the foundation are drawn from the member projects, there is clear commonality of direction and purpose. Occasionally the O|B|F directors may make announcements about our direction or purpose (a recent one was on the licensing of academic software) when the board feels there is a need to clarify matters, but in general we prefer to remain simply the administrative support organization for our member projects.
Our main activities are:
Underwriting and supporting the BOSC conferences
Organizing and supporting developer-centric "Hackathon" events
Managing our servers, colocation facilities, bank account amp; other assets
We are incorporated in the state of Delaware, USA as a not-for-profit company.
BOSC
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) is held annually in conjunction with ISCB's meeting ISMB. BOSC 2010 will be held in conjunction with ISMB 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
See some of the Past BOSC conferences.
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