An open letter about the recent cuts at GigaScience by owner BGI: https://www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2025-09-30-gigascience/

#OpenScience #OpenData #Journal #Publisher #GigaScience

Open for signatures till the end of October.

#Biopython 1.86 released on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/biopython/1.86/ - see the NEWS file for changes https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/biopython-186/NEWS.rst

For the open #genomics #bioinformatics crowd: I'm preparing the next @OpenBio newsletter here: https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/pull/47

If you have any relevant community news you wanna share, feel free to comment there!

(Yes yes, it's still on GH)

An open letter about the recent cuts at GigaScience by owner BGI: https://www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2025-09-30-gigascience/

#OpenScience #OpenData #Journal #Publisher #GigaScience

Open for signatures till the end of October.

Successful first remote talk, but switching to plan B and a pre-recorded video from the other remote speaker at #BOSC2025:

Seun Olufemi "Connecting Data, People, and Purpose: How Open Science is Advancing #Bioinformatics in a Low-Resource region (#Nigeria)"

We're into our opening keynote now by Christine Orengo "Working together to develop, promote and protect our data resources: Lessons learnt developing CATH and TED"

Full #BOSC2025 schedule at https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2025/bosc-2025-schedule/ or the #ISMBECCB2025 website.

Thank you to @biocrusoe for the touching tribute to Peter Amstutz @tetron in the #BOSC2025 opening session - a very fitting venue as much of his work was with #CommonWL, which involved many of our community, and started at the #CoFest: https://floss.social/@cwl/114655254702456294

Good Morning Liverpool! Welcome to the first day of #BOSC2025, and the first full day of #ISMBECCB2025 😀 https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2025/

Reminder that the #BOSC2025 and #ISMB2025 / #ECCB2025 / #ISMBECCB2025 abstract deadline is this Wednesday!
https://genomic.social/@BOSC/114157337524361072

Our website is now also participating in the @rogue_scholar to ensure our blog posts are archived and searchable!

https://rogue-scholar.org/search?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=oldest

We have moved our website https://open-bio.org/ from a hosted #WordPress instance to #Hugo running on #GitHubPages, with a new look and feel (and light/dark themes) but preserving all the content. Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen!

The latest @OpenBio newsletter is now out, also available here: https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/blob/master/newsletters/2025-02.md

There's some updates on #BOSC2025, the maximum funding amount of our event fellowship has been increased, and: We're looking for projects for the upcoming #GSoC!

For the #opensource #openscience #bioinformatics folks: The next @OpenBio newsletter will go out this afternoon (Argentina time).

Last chance to get your community updates in: https://github.com/OBF/newsletter/pull/44

Our website https://www.open-bio.org/ is back online, we think it was a effectively a #DenialOfService attack from a rogue bot site scraping - which pushed the server over the hosting's burst CPU limit threshold.

And the website is offline again, another CPU usage spike trigging a precautionary shutdown by the hosting company.

See https://obf.github.io/ in the interim which already has most of the static content, and all the pages migrated from MediaWiki. The WordPress content is next!

@OpenBio The next commit/pull request will put the #Biopython git repository’s default branch at over 16,000 commits!

#Biopython 1.85 released, supports Python 3.9 through 3.13 and PyPI. https://biopython.org/

Pre-compiled wheels available on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/biopython/1.85/ with #CondaForge to follow soon https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/biopython

Greetings! We invite you to join us for #BOSC2025, a vibrant gathering at the forefront of #OpenSource #bioinformatics and #OpenScience!
BOSC 2025 will be held July 21-22 in Liverpool, UK (and online) as part of #ISMB / #ECCB 2025 (#ISMBECCB2024).

We are seeking keynote speaker nominations: https://www.open-bio.org/2025/01/09/nominate-keynotes-bosc2025/

Our Website is back online - although we're unsure what caused the CPU usage spike which triggered the precautionary shutdown by our hosting company.

The OBF website is currently down - our hosting have notified us of the problem. We don't have a estimated time for restoration yet, in the meantime much of the content is on https://github.com/obf although not as readily explored.