1. Hilmar Lapp
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
(and NESCent)
ISCB Session on Software Sharing
ISMB 2008

2. About myself
• Biologist by training
• BioPerl core developer since 1999
• Lead developer of Bioperl-db, BioSQL
• O|B|F Board of Directors since 2001
• Bioinformatics computational biology at
Novartis (Vienna, San Diego)1997-2006
• Asst. Director for Informatics at NESCent
(Durham, NC) since 2006

3. O|B|F
• Open Bioinformatics Foundation
http://open-bio.org
• Incorporated in 2001 as a Not-For-Profit
• Founded primarily to handle HW needs of
the Bio* projects, and to run BOSC
• Run by Board of Directors