Pipeline release! nf-core/seqsubmit v1.0.0 - 1.0.0! Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/seqsubmit/releases/tag/1.0.0

Release 1.0.0 · nf-core/seqsubmit

Initial release of nf-core/seqsubmit Added The pipeline supports four submission modes via dedicated workflows: mags — Metagenome Assembled Genomes submission (GENOMESUBMIT) bins — Metagenomic bin...

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Become a Nextflow Ambassador in 2026!🌍 The ambassador program recognizes dedicated volunteers who contribute their time and expertise to foster collaboration & knowledge sharing across the Nextflow community. Applications close June 14, so don't wait! Apply now: hubs.la/Q04jlhr-0

My talk from the #NextflowSummit is on YouTube! youtu.be/LbA_d4oOpDQ I talked about my recent odyssey with AI-written software, including #RustQC, rewrites.bio, Trim Galore and a FastQC rust rewrite 👀 This was honestly one of my favourite talks to date. I hope it's interesting for folks 😊

Phil Ewels: Bioinformatics in the agentic age: Practical tips learnt from RustQC and rewrites.bio

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10 year streak

Post 1/2 Our new preprint is out! 🧬 We’ve extended #Tiberius for accurate ab initio gene prediction across the eukaryotic tree, including Plants, Fungi, Insects, and Diatoms. doi.org/10.64898/202...

In the run up to #NextflowSummit, we wanted to shoutout to all 143 of our #Nextflow Ambassadors.🌍 The Ambassadors have such a big impact growing the Nextflow community, mentoring new users, creating training materials, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.👏

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Nothing requires us to cede autonomy to our freakishly talented LLM assistants. We direct their efforts, and they learn from us. As we do the work they wield tools on our behalf. We can, if we choose, learn from them how best to use those tools, even as we often delegate the use to them.

I finally fixed a few things in my Nextflow daisy chaining proof of concept and added a couple others. github.com/mahesh-panch.... Thanks to the Seqera team for spotlighting it in a recent podcast. seqera.io/podcasts/epi...

GitHub - mahesh-panchal/nf-cascade: A proof of concept daisy-chaining Nextflow workflows

A proof of concept daisy-chaining Nextflow workflows - mahesh-panchal/nf-cascade

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OrthoGarden: a Pipeline for Propagating Phylogenetic Trees for Non-Model Organisms from Short Reads and de novo Genome Assemblies https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41755752/

Can't wait to release a 10-year-old birthday version for SeqKit! - 10 years - 2 papers, 3500 citations - 20 contributors - 40 subcommands - 880 commits - 500 issues - 685.5K Bioconda total downloads Thank you all, dear contributors and users! I'll keep maintaining it. github.com/shenwei356/s...

Release SeqKit v2.13.0 (10-year-old birthday version) · shenwei356/seqkit

Changelog SeqKit is 10 years old! SeqKit v2.13.0 - 2026-02-28 seqkit: add support for reading and writing LZ4 compression format. new command: seqkit sample2: improved seqkit sample by @stahiga....

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Keeping your research software metadata in sync across repositories and registries just got easier. We’ve developed a bidirectional bridge between GitHub and bio.tools, helping you keep metadata up to date automatically. Check out our BioHackrXiv preprint: doi.org/10.37044/osf...

@wytamma.bsky.social 's WASM tools have transformed my experience of teaching Python to first year undergraduate biologists this year. Since last year, I've been teaching ~400 undergrads how to code (functions, lists, dictionaries, loops) over (one hour intro lecture +) two 2-hour practicals. 1/n

Are you passionate about computational biology and the evolution of specialized plant metabolism? More details and contact information: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/conta... #Bioinformatics #Genomics #ResearchInGermany @puckerlab.bsky.social

This paper started as an exchange here in late 2024 and evolved over the next year into a tidy set of recommendations for labs hoping to build more collaborative coding communities. 🎉 Would love to hear if any of these (really not so "simple") rules resonate with you, and what else you've tried.

Randy McIntosh@ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This was such a fun collaboration with @analog-ashley.bsky.social and team, including some of our own @sciencebanshee.bsky.social and @shen4brains.bsky.social And h/t to Alana McPherson for the infographic! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Building a new plotting library in pure Rust. Making themes and colourblind mode available on every plot type from day 1. What other accessibility options can I add?

From @sciencebanshee.bsky.social @shen4brains.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for building a collaborative #coding #culture | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture

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Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

We welcome a new project to OpenSustain.tech #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain #openscience github.com/nextflow-io/...

Metax looks really nice for taxonomic profiling: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

American professors, who wants to come to Oxford for a year or two? Get in quick - deadline soon. www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancy-geor...

Interesting post on electricity and water use from AI agents from @simonpcouch.com: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

Were you aware that these are available for the community: - an efficient fasta/q parser in Rust - a quick rolling hash library - a minimizer library All in Rust 🦀

sketch directly from URLs (including esp GenBank ;) github.com/sourmash-bio...

GitHub - sourmash-bio/sourmash_plugin_directsketch

Contribute to sourmash-bio/sourmash_plugin_directsketch development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

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From @stephenturner.us | Rubrics, Not Vibes: Consistency as a Feature in Peer Review with AI | 🧪 #AI #OpenScience #PeerReview #Grants #Publications #PairedEnds ⬇️ blog.stephenturner.us/p/rubrics-no...

Rubrics, Not Vibes: Consistency as a Feature in Peer Review with AI

Responsibly using AI for a structured first pass manuscript / grant proposal review can reduce reviewer variance while keeping human judgment central. Bonus: a prompt I use for my own draft proposals.

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How would you design a *multithreaded*, *concurrent* & *dynamic* hash table if you are focused specifically on common k-mer workloads, where streaming query & insertion are common? Jamshed, Prashant and I explore this in kache-hash, a cache-friendly k-mer hash table! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding

A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities

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📣 BioHackathon 2026 will be held on 9-13 November 2026 in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸! Call for project proposals will open on 16 March and close on 15 April at midnight. More information on project proposal scopes: https://loom.ly/m6hEBcM Check the #BioHackEU25 highlights: https://loom.ly/AfKwtZA

BioHackathon Europe

Find out about the 2026 BioHackathon Europe, where hackers get together to make life science research easier.

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I’ve written a post about my recent experiences (successes) with AI coding models; the experiences that caused me to re-evaluate my initial judgements, the surprise I had at what can be accomplished, & some fears I have about these tools. Discussion welcome! combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/02...

COMBINE-lab - The skeptic’s guide to generative AI assisted coding

An easy-to-use, flexible website template for labs, with automatic citations, GitHub tag imports, pre-built components, and more.

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