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EuroBioC2026 conference recap

Bioconductor

Highlights from the 2026 European Bioconductor Conference in Turku, Finland

Jun 19, 2026

Laurah Ondari

Bioconductor-centric hackathon on spatial omics and image-derived data

events

hackathon

19-22 April 2026 on San Servolo island, Italy

Jun 17, 2026

Davide Risso, Helena Crowell, Wolfgang Huber

Bioconductor Maintainer Validation

Bioconductor

Infrastructure

Developer Engagement

Policies and Procedures

Bioconductor Package Maintainer Validation System

Jun 16, 2026

Lori Shepherd-Kern

New Package Submission Process

Bioconductor

R-universe

Infrastructure

GitHub Actions

Developer Engagement

New Submissions

bioconductor-evolution

The Single Package Builder (SPB) previously used for new Bioconductor package submissions has been replaced.

Jun 15, 2026

Lori Shepherd-Kern

Developer Engagement and Bioconductor

Developer Engagement

Introducing myself as the new Developer Engagement Lead for Bioconductor.

Apr 9, 2026

Nicholas Cooley, PhD

Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-universe on Development of Common Infrastructure

Bioconductor

R-universe

Infrastructure

R-consortium ISC top-level project R-universe is working with Bioconductor to help gradually modernize parts of its infrastructure, while accommodating the project’s scale, governance, and established processes.

Apr 8, 2026

The rOpenSci Team, The Bioconductor Team

Outreachy June 2025 Interns with Bioconductor

Outreachy

open science

Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the June 2025 to August 2025 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and Bioconductor in general.

Dec 12, 2025

Anne-Marie Sharp, Victoria Poromon

Bioconductor in Africa: Highlights from our first workshop in West Africa - Benin

education

events

Carpentries

CZI

From November 17 to 25, 2025, Bioconductor held its first in-person training workshop in West Africa. The workshop was held at the Genetics, Biotechnology, and Seed Science…

Dec 11, 2025

Laurah Ondari

Bioconductor in Africa: Ethiopia’s First In-Person Course

education

events

Carpentries

CZI

Following the success of our first in-person Bioconductor course in Nairobi earlier this year, we continued building momentum across the continent with Ethiopia’s first…

Nov 24, 2025

Maria Doyle

EuroBioC2025 conference recap

Bioconductor

Highlights from the 2025 European Bioconductor Conference in Barcelona

Oct 24, 2025

Laurah Ondari

GPU Support in Bioconductor

GPU

CZI

Support GPU-accelerated Bioconductor packages

Oct 10, 2025

Andres Wokaty

Tagging Bioconductor packages with EDAM

bioconductor-evolution

ontology

biocViews

EDAM

education

CZI

Adopting formal ontology for labeling Bioconductor software and data

Jul 18, 2025

Vince Carey, Lori Kern

Exploring R and Rust in Bioinformatics – Online Developer Forum, 28 July 2025

events

Join us for an open developer forum exploring how R and Rust can work together in bioinformatics and Bioconductor development. Organised and hosted by Lluís Revilla (Biocondu…

Jul 11, 2025

Lluís Revilla Sancho

Bioconductor’s First Microbiome Course in Brazil: A Successful Workshop at UFMG in Belo Horizonte

Events

Workshops

Microbiome

From April 23rd to 25th, 2025, we hosted the first Bioconductor microbiome course in Brazil, a three-afternoon workshop held at the Interunits Post-Graduate Program of…

Jul 10, 2025

Izabela Mamede

Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0: What’s Changing and How to Prepare

tech-notes

Preparing for the upcoming update - key changes, potential breakages, and what developers and users can do

Jul 7, 2025

Maria Doyle (Bioconductor Community Manager), with contributions from the Bioconductor and ggplot2 developer communities

Bringing Bioconductor to Galaxy: A CoFest Collaboration

education

collaborations

galaxy

Written during CoFest at GBCC2025, this post shares training materials, introduces Galaxy tool wrapping, and previews what’s next for integrating Bioconductor tools in Galaxy.

Jul 3, 2025

Gretta Yagudayeva, Maria Doyle, Charlotte Soneson, Marcel Ramos Pérez, Robert Castelo

Bioconductor Training partners with Physalia Courses

education

collaborations

A new collaboration to expand access to bioinformatics training through co-branded courses, instructor support, and inclusive access.

Jun 20, 2025

Maria Doyle, Charlotte Soneson, and Laurent Gatto

Bioconductor is Moving from Slack to Zulip for Community Chat

bioconductor

Bioconductor’s community chat is moving from Slack to Zulip on Monday 2 June 2025. The transition ensures long-term access to discussions and better reflects our open-source…

May 29, 2025

Maria Doyle

Ask and you shall receive

bioconductor-evolution

education

Discussion of evolving complexity and value of the Bioconductor ecosystem.

May 26, 2025

Vince Carey

Bioconductor in Africa: Highlights from Our First In-Person Course

education

events

Carpentries

CZI

In March 2025, Bioconductor marked an exciting milestone—our first in-person course on the African continent. Hosted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture…

May 21, 2025

Maria Doyle

Outreachy December 2024 Interns with Bioconductor

Outreachy

open science

Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2024 to March 2025 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and Bioconductor in general.

Apr 23, 2025

Kate Rasheed, Divine Aleru

Bioconductor Community Advisory Board

Bioconductor

CAB

An introduction to the new Co-Chair

Mar 5, 2025

Stevie Pederson

Bioconductor Carpentry: Celebrating Two Years of Global Training

education

Carpentries

As we complete two years of Instructor training, we reflect on our journey since becoming a member of The Carpentries in August 2022 (announcement). Our goal was to train 30…

Feb 28, 2025

Maria Doyle

Open Science Mentoring: My Journey with Outreachy Mentees

Outreachy

open science

Bioconductor has been participating in the Outreachy Internship program since 2022. In this post, I, Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic, a senior researcher in microbiome science…

Feb 26, 2025

Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

2024 SpatialData Workshop

Bioconductor

R/Bioconductor developers participating in the 1st scverse SpatialData Workshop

Jan 8, 2025

Artür Manukyan

EuroBioC2024 conference recap

Bioconductor

Highlights from the 2024 Bioconductor European Conference in Oxford.

Sep 20, 2024

Maria Doyle

Announcing the First Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference (GBCC 2025)

Bioconductor

Join us at CSHL, New York, June 23-26!

Sep 3, 2024

Maria Doyle (Bioconductor), Natalie Whitaker-Allen (Galaxy)

Outreachy May 2024

Outreachy

open science

Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the May 2024 cohort. In this post, our intern shares her journey, detailing her experience working on the Microbiome Study Curation project and Bioconductor in general.

Aug 15, 2024

Scholastica Urua

BioC2024 conference recap

Bioconductor

Highlights from the 2024 Bioconductor North American Conference in Grand Rapids.

Aug 12, 2024

Maria Doyle

Beatriz Calvo-Serra: inaugural Bioconductor Athena Award winner

Bioconductor

Celebrating Bea’s contributions, resilience, and the inaugural Bioconductor Athena Award in her honor.

Jul 29, 2024

Robert Castelo, Maria Doyle, Aedin Culhane

Bioconductor highlights from the CZI Open Science Meeting

Bioconductor

CZI

Bioconductor grantees gathered in Boston for the CZI Open Science Meeting.

Jul 24, 2024

Maria Doyle

New R-Ladies–Bioconductor collaboration!

Bioconductor

RLadies

Announcing a new collaboration between R-Ladies and Bioconductor

Jul 20, 2024

Janani Ravi

Bioconductor projects funded by CZI EOSS Cycle 6

Bioconductor

CZI

Carpentries

Announcing the Bioconductor projects funded in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative EOSS Cycle 6

Jul 12, 2024

Maria Doyle

Updated welcome message for the Bioconductor Community Slack workspace

Bioconductor

Welcome to the Bioconductor Community Slack Workspace! 🎉

Jul 10, 2024

Maria Doyle

Launching the New Bioconductor.org

Bioconductor

Website Redesign

A look into the final updates, community-driven improvements, and what’s next for our website.

Feb 1, 2024

Maria Doyle

Journey of Growth: Our Internship experience with Bioconductor

Outreachy

open science

Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2023 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and Bioconductor in general.

Jan 31, 2024

Chioma Onyido, Afuape Esther, Peace Sandy

Bioconductor is leaving Twitter/X

Bioconductor

We’re transitioning away from Twitter/X in favor of platforms more aligned with our Code of Conduct.

Nov 17, 2023

Maria Doyle

We had a blast at BioC2023! Here’s what happened.

Bioconductor

events

BioC2023 kicked off at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA. It was opened by Vincent Carey, Professor of Medicine at Harvard and co-founder of the Bioconductor…

Aug 17, 2023

Anna Powell

Taking Bioconductor.org to the Next Level: Community, Collaboration and Progress

Bioconductor

Website Redesign

Discover the recent advancements in the Bioconductor.org website redesign project, including the survey’s user insights, UX audit, collaborative workshops, UX testing, and the build phase, all leading to an exciting sneak peek at BioC2023.

Aug 1, 2023

Maria Doyle

Our Journey as Outreachy Interns with Bioconductor

Outreachy

open science

Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the May 2023 cohort. Join us as we share our enriching experience working on various projects at Bioconductor and delve into the world of open science.

Jul 14, 2023

Sonali Kumari, Daena Rys, Atrayee Samanta

Testing Packages on Linux ARM64 with GitHub Actions

tech-notes

GitHub Actions

ARM64

How to use GitHub Actions to systematically build and test a Bioconductor package on Linux ARM64 architecture.

Jul 14, 2023

Mike L. Smith

Reimagining Bioconductor.org: The Path to Our Website Redesign

Bioconductor

Website Redesign

Discover the journey of Bioconductor’s website redesign project. Learn about the process, from initial planning to collaboration with NearForm as we shape the future of Bioconductor.org.

Jun 22, 2023

Maria Doyle

Bioconductor’s Participation in Galaxy Smorgasbord 2023: A Recap

events

education

Bioconductor made its first appearance at the Galaxy Smorgasbord this year. This post provides a summary of our successful participation.

Jun 16, 2023

Maria Doyle, Alex Mahmoud

ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2023

Bioconductor

Bioconductor’s participation in ELIXIR All Hands Meeting in Dublin, Ireland, June 2023.

Jun 16, 2023

Anna Powell

Emulated build and test of Bioconductor packages for Linux ARM64

tech-notes

ARM64

Build and test for Linux ARM64 with Docker on x86_64 host

Jun 9, 2023

Martin Grigorov

Renaming the Default Branch to Devel

Bioconductor

During the 3.17 devel cycle, Bioconductor will rename the default branch devel.

Mar 1, 2023

J Wokaty

Bioconductor Carpentries instructors Year 1

education

Carpentries

An update on the Bioconductor Carpentries global training program - applicants selected for Year 1

Feb 24, 2023

Maria Doyle

Introducing CuratedAtlasQueryR package

Package

CuratedAtlasQueryR is a new package that enables easy programmatic exploration of CELLxGENE single-cell human cell atlas data.

Feb 23, 2023

Maria Doyle, Stefano Mangiola

Our experience as Outreachy interns with Bioconductor

Outreachy

open science

Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2022 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and bioconductor in general.

Jan 22, 2023

Beryl Kanali, Atuhurira Kirabo

Bioconductor Hacktoberfest 2022 review and looking ahead to 2023

events

Last October, Bioconductor joined Hacktoberfest and got great community contributions there. Here, we describe its success and notify the community we plan to participate in 2023.

Jan 20, 2023

Maria Doyle, Kozo Nishida, Kevin Rue-Albrecht

Recommended Awesome Lists for Bioconductor Community: Oct 2022 Edition

education

This blog post consolidates web links to different Awesome Lists that may be useful to those just starting up in bioinformatics and those experienced in the field.

Oct 22, 2022

Jeremy Selva

Bioconductor becomes a Carpentries member organization

education

Carpentries

Starting from August 1, 2022, Bioconductor will be a member of The Carpentries. Among other things, the membership enables us to allow 15 individuals to follow the Carpentries’ Instructor Training program and become certified Carpentries Instructors.

Jul 12, 2022

Charlotte Soneson, Laurent Gatto, Toby Hodges, Jenny Drnevich, Robert Castelo, Susan Holmes

Join the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board

BioC

CAB

Each year the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board (CAB) puts out a public call for new board members. This post tells you more about what the CAB does and how you can apply to become a member.

Feb 1, 2022

Kozo Nishida, Matt Ritchie

metaRbolomics hackathon to improve interoperability of metabolomics-related R packages

Metabolomics

Mass Spectrometry

Hackathon

Open Science

The 3rd metaRbolomics hackathon took place as a in-person workshop in Wittenberg (Germany) in November 2021. The aim was to improve interoperability of metabolomics/mass spectrometry-related R packages, combine development efforts and identify gaps and needs in current available functionality. It was a fun event with a lot of discussions and coding as well as socializing and networking.

Jan 18, 2022

Johannes Rainer

Celebrating 20 years of Bioconductor

events

The Bioconductor project started in 2001 and, during the Bioconductor conference 2021, celebrated 20 years of collaborative work for the development of open source and open development software.”.

Jan 14, 2022

Kevin Rue-Albrecht

BioC Asia 2021 は言語障壁の緩和に挑戦し、多様性を実現した

Japanese

BioC

Diversity

BioC Asia 2021 の運営委員会は Zoom や YouTube を用いて「英語のリアルタイムキャプションの追加」「英語キーノートスピーチの日本語翻訳キャプションの追加」「英語、日本語、中国語の3カ国語での並行ワークショップ」を行い、カンファレンスの多言語対応を実現しました。

Jan 12, 2022

西田孝三

BioC Asia 2021 challenged to overcoming language barriers and respected diversity

BioC

Diversity

BioC Asia 2021 organizing committee used Zoom and YouTube to “add real-time English captions”, “add Japanese translation captions for English keynote”, and “run 3 parallel workshops: English, Japanese, and Mandarin”.

Dec 9, 2021

Kozo Nishida

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