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🌟 Thank you Cortex for supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make BioC2026 possible.
CORTEX is knowledge infrastructure for reproducible science. It unifies a lab's scattered data into one queryable base, capturing context and tracking provenance from raw input to reported value.
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🌟Thank you, R consortium, for supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make BioC2026 possible.
The central mission of the R Consortium is to work with and provide support to the R Foundation and to the key organizations developing, maintaining, distributing and using R software through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects.
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🌟 Thank you Posit for supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make BioC2026 possible.
Posit creates exceptional software that helps individuals, teams, and organizations understand and make better decisions with data. Built on the belief that analyses should be correct, transparent, and reproducible, Posit empowers researchers by bringing together the strengths of humans and AI to tackle the world's most important data-driven challenges.
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🌟 BioC2026 Gold sponsor spotlight: CORTEX!
CORTEX is knowledge infrastructure for reproducible science. It unifies a lab's scattered data into one queryable base, capturing context and tracking provenance from raw input to reported value.
Thank you Cortex for supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make BioC2026 possible.
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🌟 BioC2026 Silver sponsor spotlight: R Consortium!
The central mission of the R Consortium is to work with and provide support to the R Foundation and to the key organizations developing, maintaining, distributing and using R software through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects.
Thank you, R consortium, for supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make BioC2026 possible.
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📣 Call for Workshop Proposals: BioCAsia 2026
BioCAsia 2026 will take place on 19-20 November 2026 in Melbourne, Australia, and the call for workshop proposals is now open.
We encourage proposals on Bioconductor software and workflows, as well as topics such as single-cell and spatial omics, reproducible workflows, cloud computing, machine learning, genomics, microbiome analysis, and more.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026
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📢 We're excited to announce that Ben Busby will be presenting "Developing Technologies That Meet the New Scale of Digital Biology" at the BioC2026 Conference.
Ben's talk tackles head-on the infrastructure challenges that come with biology's explosive growth in data scale and complexity.
Join us to hear how his team is engineering solutions designed to keep pace with the field's rapidly evolving demands.🔗 Register to attend: https://bioc2026.bioconductor.org/
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📣 Call for Workshop Proposals: BioCAsia 2026
BioCAsia 2026 will take place on 19–20 November 2026 in Melbourne, Australia, and the call for workshop proposals is now open.
We encourage proposals on Bioconductor software and workflows, as well as topics such as single-cell and spatial omics, reproducible workflows, cloud computing, machine learning, genomics, microbiome analysis, and more.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026
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🌟 Annual Nominations Open for CAB & TAB! 🌟
Want to contribute to Bioconductor, or know someone who should? Join our advisory boards!
🌐 Community Advisory Board (CAB):
- Enable productive and respectful participation
- Empower user and developer communities🔧 Technical Advisory Board (TAB):
- Ensure long-term technical suitability
- Develop funding strategies for project viability📅 Apply by Aug 31:
CAB: https://forms.gle/qXwPqEzPET45MimW7
TAB: https://forms.gle/MLYBYDgdbU1CUVU99 -
Don't miss your chance to join the Bioconductor community in Seattle this August.
Regular registration and late-breaking poster submissions are open through July 27, 2026.
🎟️ Register: https://lnkd.in/eubT7qHn
📌 Submit a late-breaking poster: https://lnkd.in/enQ5N4E7 -
A huge thank you to everyone who helped make #EuroBioC2026 possible — our sponsors, organisers, speakers, workshop instructors, volunteers, and attendees.
Over three days, the Bioconductor community came together to share new research, showcase software, exchange ideas, build collaborations, and celebrate an incredible milestone: 25 years of Bioconductor.
Read the full conference recap here 👉 https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-06-19-EuroBioc2026-recap/
See you in Basel for #EuroBioC2027!
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🧬 Upcoming R/Bioconductor Package Development Course
Bioconductor, in collaboration with Physalia Courses, is offering an upcoming online course on Developing R/Bioconductor Packages for Genomics.
📅 6-10 July 2026
The course combines lectures, demonstrations, guided exercises, office hours, and community discussions to help participants build the skills needed to develop and maintain their own R/Bioconductor packages.
👉 Learn more and register: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/r-packages/
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📢 Missed the BioC2026 early bird deadline? There's still time to join the Bioconductor community in Seattle this August.
Regular registration is now open through July 27, 2026, and late-breaking poster submissions remain open through June 30, 2026.
🎟️ Register: https://bioc2026.bioconductor.org/registration/
📌 Submit a late-breaking poster: https://openreview.net/group?id=bioconductor.org/BioC/2026/Conference -
"BiocExecute: Make package functions or workflows executable from the command line" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/ywsmq_v1
"R2G2 integrates R with Galaxy, and Rapp (r-lib,2024) lets an R script run as if it were a command-line program. What is missing is a path from a Bioconductor package to such tools that follows the project’s own packaging conventions. BiocExecute fills that gap" https://index.biohackrxiv.org/2026/06/19/ywsmq.html
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It's been a little over a week since EuroBioC2026 wrapped up in Turku, Finland.
The talks ended. The posters came down. But the conversations continue.Here's a look back at a few faces and moments from the conference.
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🧬 Earlier this year, members of the Bioconductor community met on San Servolo Island, Italy, for a three-day hackathon on spatial omics and bioimaging. They tackled challenges in spatial data infrastructure, interoperability, image analysis, visualisation, differential expression, and foundation models, producing new code, documentation, and a collaborative preprint to bolster spatial omics support across Bioconductor.
📖 Read more: https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-06-17-venice/
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🧬 Upcoming Bioconductor Developers' Forum
📅 June 25, 2026
🕓 4 PM UTC
🎤 Szabolcs Horvátigraph: complex network analysis across multiple programming languages
As Bioconductor continues to explore interoperability and accessibility, this session will highlight how the igraph project has successfully maintained multiple user-facing interfaces while supporting a common computational backend.
👉 Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gIOto0duQ_y3kU7qEzQeOg
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"Eurobioc2026 BiocContainer Report" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/acxky_v1
"Containers enhance reproducibility and provide an easy and convenient way to share the setups used to run an analysis. As part of the EuroBioc 2026 Hackathon, this working group got together with the aim of offering user-friendly and straightforward ways to create containers given the desired R packages, data and scripts, and importantly, coupled to the used Bioconductor release. This resulted in an R package called SimpleBiocContainer which offers a minimal set of functions to do this." https://index.biohackrxiv.org/2026/06/15/acxky.html
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📢 Introducing the Bioconductor Package Maintainer Validation System
Bioconductor package maintenance doesn't end at submission. Keeping maintainer contact information up to date is essential for supporting users, responding to build issues, and ensuring packages remain actively maintained.
Bioconductor has launched a new maintainer validation system to help keep maintainer information up to date and support active package stewardship.
📖 Read more: https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-06-16-maintainer-validation/
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a new R package, PinPath, allows mapping experimental data onto pathways, using just R: https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.PinPath https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/PinPath.html
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✨ Sponsor Spotlight: Bronze Sponsors
A huge thank you to BigOmics, Liedon Säästöpankkisäätiö, LOIMU, Physalia and the R Consortium for their support in making EuroBioC2026 possible.
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✨ Sponsor Spotlight: Gold Sponsors
A huge thank you to BioCity Turku and Åbo Akademi University Foundation for their support in helping make EuroBioC2026 possible.
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✨ Sponsor Spotlight: Diamond Sponsor ✨
A huge thank you to the Finnish Cultural Foundation for their support in making EuroBioC2026 possible.
The Finnish Cultural Foundation is a private foundation operating throughout Finland, working to build a pluralistic and sustainable society by promoting science, art, and culture, and encouraging future talents to pursue new ideas and breakthroughs.
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✨ Sponsor Spotlight: Diamond Sponsor ✨
A huge thank you to the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies for their support in making EuroBioC2026 possible.
The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies is a national co-operative body for learned societies in Finland. It contributes to co-operation among learned societies, supports and develops scholarly communication and publishing, and promotes awareness of and use of research results.
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The #bioconductor @bioconductor project has a new 'AI policy and Third Party Code'
section in its contribution guide:If a non-trivial portion of your contribution is copied from somewhere else (such as AI-generated or copied from another software project) you are required to discuss it in the issue and disclose it in the PR description and provide details about the provenance (for example, ‘Assisted-by: Name of AI’ or ‘Code copied from: source’). Make sure to cite the provenance in the new code and that the newly contributed code can be redistributed under the software/packages licensing terms. You will still be responsible for this code, its reliability and maintenance within your package.
Source: https://contributions.bioconductor.org/ai-policy-third-party.html
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Was seeing some very, very odd failures in multicore processing using `furrr` when `SummarizedExperiment` was loaded, when using R 4.4.1
I'm guessing there was a weird thing in the `BiocGenerics` package that wasn't playing nice.
So part of today's fun was upgrading to #RStats 4.6.0 (source on older fedora 39, and deb on Pop!OS) to get the latest version of #Bioconductor packages.
That seems to have fixed the bug I was seeing, at least.
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📅 Registration and schedule information for BioC2026 is now available.
The conference schedule is now live on the BioC2026 website, and registration is officially open for:
• the conference
• the Bioconductor-Carpentries Workshop
• the HackathonIf you’re planning to attend, now is a great time to explore the program and register. Early bird pricing ends on 15 June 2026.
🎟️ More details and registration: https://bioc2026.bioconductor.org
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📮You've got mail! 💌
We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @Posit
Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦
Register today!
📆 Wed 20 May 2026
⏰ 5:00 PM AEST | 7:00 AM UTC
🔗 statsoc.org.au/event-6653060Looking forward to nerdy chats with @visnut Stevie P. @jeroenooms and Valerie B.
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📣 Meet Nicholas Cooley, Bioconductor’s new Developer Engagement Lead.
In his latest blog post, Nick reflects on stepping into this role and what he hopes to achieve for the Bioconductor community.
His focus is on strengthening developer support, improving onboarding, especially for early-career researchers, and creating better recognition for the many contributors who sustain the project.
Find out more here: https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-04-09-developer-engagement/