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📢 REMINDER Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series: Developing & submitting Bioconductor packages — key steps from structuring and documenting R code to testing and preparing for submission. 🎤 Dr Fabricio Almeida-Silva 📅 Oct 28 2026 🕓 4 PM EAT Register: bit.ly/3VQEa7H

📢 REMINDER: October Developers’ Forum Join Louis Le Nézet to explore current nf-core practices, common challenges, and approaches for integrating R into workflows using the new r-nfcore-utils package. 📅 October 29, 2026 | 4 PM GMT Register to attend: bit.ly/4yEacBB

📢 Registration is open for the ABACBS-2026 & BiocAsia-2026 workshops! Join the Bioconcuctor community in Melbourne on 19-20 November for hands-on sessions exploring tools, software and practical skills in bioinformatics and computational biology. 🎟️ Register now to secure your spot: bit.ly/482sK3A

Through the Bioconductor–Physalia collaboration, 18 sponsored course places were provided to researchers across nine countries between November 2025 and October 2026. Read their experiences and see how access to specialist training is making a difference: bit.ly/4B4h3qq

🧬 Bioconductor, in collaboration with Physalia Courses, is offering an online course on Exploring and Visualizing Omics Data with iSEE. 📅 25- 26 November 2026 👉 Learn more and register: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... (2 free seats for LMIC applicants available 👉 bit.ly/3Pyyzjj )

🧬 Bioconductor, in collaboration with Physalia Courses, is offering an upcoming online course on Spatial Proteomics Data Analysis in R/Bioconductor. 📅 10-12 November 2026 👉 Learn more and register: bit.ly/4i8y0IO (2 free seats for LMIC applicants available 👉 bit.ly/3Pyyzjj )

🧬 Bioconductor, in collaboration with Physalia Courses, is offering an upcoming online course on Metabolomics with R/Bioconductor. 📅 16-18 & 20 November 2026 👉 Learn more and register: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... (2 free seats for LMIC applicants available 👉https://bit.ly/3Pyyzjj )

🧬 Bioconductor, in collaboration with Physalia courses, is offering an upcoming online course on single-cell RNA-seq analysis with R/Bioconductor. 📅 16-20 November 2026 👉 Learn more and register: bit.ly/4i9vkKT (2 free seats for LMIC applicants available 👉 bit.ly/3Pyyzjj )

📢 Join Louis Le Nézet on October 29 to explore current nf-core practices, common challenges, and approaches for integrating R into workflows using the new r-nfcore-utils package. 📅 October 29, 2026 | 4 PM GMT Register to attend: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #Bioconductor

🧬 Bioconductor, in collaboration with Physalia Courses, is offering an upcoming online course on introduction to RNA sequencing data analysis 📅 9-18 Nov 2026 👉 Learn more and register: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... (2 free seats for LMIC applicants available 👉 bit.ly/3Pyyzjj )

How can Bioconductor methods become more reusable across different workflow ecosystems? Our latest blog explores how Bioconductor, Galaxy & nf-core contributors used a single-cell workflow to test the BiocJobs approach & advance research software interoperability. Read the full post: bit.ly/4y4ZuUB

📢 Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series: Developing & submitting Bioconductor packages — key steps from structuring and documenting R code to testing and preparing for submission. 🎤 Dr Fabricio Almeida-Silva 📅 Oct 28 2026 🕓 4 PM EAT Register: bit.ly/3VQEa7H

#BioC2026 brought the Bioconductor community together in Seattle for three days of science, software and community building. From inspiring talks & posters to workshops, package demos, and the hackathon, it was a great celebration of 25 years of Bioconductor. Read the full recap: bit.ly/4e9Kopr

📢 Only a few hours left to participate. We’re running a developer survey to better understand the needs and priorities of the community and help shape the future of Bioconductor. The survey takes approximately 15–30 minutes to complete. 📝 Survey link: forms.gle/WWCZAX7uuPfr... #Bioconductor

📢 We’re running a developer survey to better understand the needs and priorities of the community to help shape the future of Bioconductor. The survey is open until September 30 and takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. 📝 Survey link: bit.ly/4zPf6h4 We look forward to hearing from you!

📢 We’re running a developer survey to better understand the needs and priorities of the community to help shape the future of Bioconductor. The survey is open until September 30 and takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. 📝 Survey link: bit.ly/4zPf6h4 We look forward to hearing from you!

✈️ BiocAsia 2026 Travel Scholarships! Great news! SAiGENCI is supporting travel scholarships of up to AU$400 for eligible attendees to participate in BiocAsia 2026. The scholarships are designed to support students and ECRs who'd like to attend the conference Apply here 👇️ bit.ly/4dqZNkO

🎉BiocAsia 2026 Sponsor spotlight! SAiGENCI – South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute, through the Computational System Oncology Program, is a main supporter of #BiocAsia2026! We’re grateful for their support in bringing the Bioconductor community across the Asia-Pacific region together!

📢 Update: The Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been postponed. The workshop will now take place on: 📅 23–27 November 2026 Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause & we appreciate your understanding. Apply to attend: bit.ly/4xvDUsf

🎥 BioC2026 keynote talks are now on YouTube! Missed the keynotes or want to watch them again? They are now available in the BioC2026 keynote playlist. ▶️ Watch the playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BioC2026 #Bioconductor

🧬 Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series: Single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis with Bioconductor, exploring scRNA-seq workflows from data filtering and preprocessing to cell cluster analysis and more. 🎤 Speaker: Jacques Serizay 📅 Sep 16 & 23, 2026 🕓 4 PM EAT Register to attend: bit.ly/45Kk40M

📢 We’re running a developer survey to better understand the needs and priorities of the community and help shape the future of Bioconductor. The survey is open until September 30 and takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. 📝 Survey link: bit.ly/4zPf6h4 We look forward to hearing from you!

🚀 Introducing BiocJobs: declare dispatchable jobs inside Bioconductor packages BiocJobs lets package authors declare analyses as batch jobs and auto-generate wrappers for Galaxy, GA4GH TES, Nextflow, and WDL from a single declaration—no hand-written wrappers needed. 🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/4zBj7pa

📢 Apply or nominate someone for the Bioconductor 2026 Advisory Boards by Aug 31, 2026! 🌐 Community Advisory Board - advance engagement, training, outreach and inclusion: bit.ly/4hugFKG 🔧 Technical Advisory Board - help guide Bioconductor's technical direction & sustainability: bit.ly/4gqi3Ng

📣 Just a few days left to submit your workshop proposal for BiocAsia 2026! BioCAsia 2026 will take place on 19-20 November 2026 in Melbourne, Australia, and the call for workshop proposals closes soon. 🗓️ Deadline: 21 August 2026. 🔗 Submit your proposal: forms.office.com/r/r1n3au5Drz

📢Bioconductor will hold a hands-on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor workshop in Addis Ababa this September. 📅 21–25 September 2026 📍 BETin, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Register to attend: bit.ly/4xvDUsf Learn more about this workshop: bit.ly/4xB6GYC

🌟 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.

🌟Thank you, R consortium, for supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make BioC2026 possible. R Consortium's mission is to support the R Foundation and organizations that develop, maintain, distribute & use R by identifying, developing & implementing infrastructure projects. #BioC2026

🌟 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. #BioC2026 #Bioconductor

🌟 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 helping make #BioC2026 possible.

🎉 Introducing the Bioconductor Student-ECR Council! The Council will support students and ECRs with mentorship, networking, professional development & opportunities to contribute to Bioconductor. Learn more: bit.ly/4giOlJ1 Interested in joining? Connect on Zulip: bit.ly/4yYVxT0

🌟 BioC2026 Silver sponsor spotlight: R Consortium! Their mission is to support the R Foundation and organizations that develop, maintain, distribute & use R by identifying, developing & implementing infrastructure projects. Thank you R Consortium for helping make BioC2026 possible.

🌟 BioC2026 Silver sponsor spotlight: Posit! Posit creates exceptional software that helps individuals, teams, and organizations understand and make better decisions with data. Thank you, Posit, for supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make #BioC2026 possible.

📢 Join the August Bioconductor Developers' Forum which will introduce {anvl}, an array computing framework that supports automatic code transformations, JIT compilation, and execution on GPU accelerators. 🎤 Sebastian Fischer 📅 August 27, 2026 🕓 4:00 PM GMT 🔗 Register to attend: bit.ly/4h67hMZ

📢 Join BioC2026 online! Although in-person registration for BioC2026 is now closed, you can still join the conference virtually from anywhere in the world. 💻 Virtual registration closes: August 12 Secure your virtual ticket today: 🎟️ ti.to/nf-projects/...

📢 Join the next Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series where we'll explore approaches for combining omics data using statistical and machine learning methods. 🎤 Speakers: Dr. Himel Mallick & Nalin Arora 📅 Date: August 12, 2026 🕓 Time: 13:00 UTC 🔗 Register to attend here: bit.ly/4ceZDfO

📣 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. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026 🔗 www.abacbs.org/workshops-20... #BioCAsia #Bioconductor

📢 Bioconductor Developers' Forum | July 2026 🗓️ Today, July 30, 2026 | 4:00 PM GMT Topic: The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books; their design, maintenance challenges, and strategies for more sustainable book development. Presenter: Aaron Lun Register to attend: bit.ly/4gApqlU

🚨 There are only a few hours left to register for BioC2026 and submit a late-breaking poster abstract. Don't miss the opportunity to join the Bioconductor community in Seattle this August. 🎟️ Register: bit.ly/4xpG5hQ 📌 Submit your late-breaking poster: bit.ly/4efxyqh

📢 We're excited to announce that Ben Busby will be presenting "Developing Technologies That Meet the New Scale of Digital Biology" at BioC2026. His talk tackles infrastructure challenges that come with biology's explosive growth in data scale and complexity. 🔗 Register to attend: bit.ly/4fjAGlC

Late-breaking poster submissions for BioC2026 are open, and regular registration is still available through 27 July 2026. Join the Bioconductor community in Seattle, 10-12 August 2026. 🎟️ Register: bit.ly/4xpG5hQ 📌 Submit your late-breaking poster: bit.ly/4efxyqh #BioC2026

📢 After BioC2026 wraps up, the learning will continue with two post-conference events on 13-14 August in Seattle. - Learn how to analyse large-scale single-cell RNAseq data with Bioconductor. - Code, collaborate & connect at the Bioconductor Hackathon Learn more & sign up: bit.ly/4eHWR3k

📣 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. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026 🔗 www.abacbs.org/workshops-20... #BioCAsia #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

📢 There's still time to join the Bioconductor community at BioC2026! Regular registration and late-breaking poster submissions are open until 27 July 2026. 🎟️ Register: bit.ly/4xpG5hQ 📌 Submit your late-breaking poster: bit.ly/4efxyqh #BioC2026

Two exciting post-conference events will take place 13-14 August 2026, immediately following BioC2026. 1. Single-cell RNA-seq analysis 👉 Register: bit.ly/4et8Djg 2. Bioconductor Hackathon 👉 Sign up: bit.ly/44rgGqN Learn more: bit.ly/4eHWR3k

📢 Bioconductor Developers' Forum | July 30, 2026 | 4:00 PM GMT Join us to discuss the design, maintenance challenges, and future of the Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books in Bioconductor. Topic: The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books Presenter: Aaron Lun Register here: bit.ly/4gApqlU