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With the help of Deepashree Deshmukh, who was recruited via the Outreachy program, we have a fantastic new website! Visit it now or read more on our blog.
The diversity-oriented OBF travel fellowships offer up to $1000 USD for conference travel and accommodation. The April 2019 application round has a particularly fantastic set of applicants, and we'll be announcing the selections in the next few days on our blog.
Applications are rolling, and the next application deadline is August 15th. If your event is before the 15th, never fear - it's also okay to apply for fellowships for events in the recent past.
BOSC 2019 will take place in Basel, Switzerland, July 24-25, as part of ISMB/ECCB 2019. Preparations are well underway, with first-round abstracts all reviewed and notified (huge thanks to all out volunteer reviewers!).
- ISCB travel fellowships: Accepted speakers/poster presenters who are ISCB members and also Postdocs or Students are eligible to apply for an ISMB travel fellowship - apply by May 17th!
- Late-breaking applications are still open! If you haven't submitted an abstract yet, you can still submit a late-breaking abstract to BOSC until the end of the day on May 15th.
The OBF is constantly re-evaluating ways to help out the open science + life science community. We're open to interesting and creative suggestions of ways to help, whether technical resources, community resources, diversity related initiatives, or something else we haven't thought of yet. The survey only takes two minutes and is anonymous. Please also help us spread the word by sharing it with others. Visit the OBF community needs survey.
The OBF acts as an umbrella host organisation for open source organisations who wish to work with a student for the four months of Google Summer of Code. This year, five students have been selected, working on projects for BioJS, Sambamba, BioD, the Journal of Open Data Publications, and antiSMASH. See more about the projects on the Google Summer of Code site.
- Are you a fan of Galaxy? The Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2019) will be on 1-6 July 2019 in Freiburg, Germany, with a fantastic program mixing training sessions with talks and a hackathon to round things off. Earlybird registration ends on the 17th of May. Read more and register.
- Last year, one of our travel fellowship awardees, Anisha Keshevan, shared her impressions of the 2018 eLife Sprint. The sprint is on again this year! Emmy Tsang, Innovation officer at eLife, shares the following: The eLife Innovation Sprint is taking place Sep 4–5 in Cambridge, UK. The #eLifeSprint is a two-day collaborative event where we bring together open-source developers, designers, researchers and other open science enthusiasts to drive forward scientific research communication through innovation. We would love to have the OBF community at the Sprint–-travel support is available for those from under-represented communities. Find out more and apply here, before Jun 2.
- Are you an ECR looking for funding? ECRCentral is a centralised funding and travel grant database aimed at Early Career Researchers - incidentally, it is also a resource that was developed at the 2018 eLife Innovation Sprint!
- Twitter is a great way to disseminate and share information. Swapna Menon has been curating Twitter moments that might interest people in biology, including collections on Single cell omics and Oxford Nanopore.
- The Turing Way is a brand-new open book aiming to make it easy to do reproducible data science.
Tell us about the things that catch your attention in the open source bioinformatics world! If you have an exciting project update, request for feedback, or interesting link, feel free to share it with us on GitHub, or discuss it offline if you're not sure whether or not your content is suitable - we're looking for content that's primarily open source / science related.