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๐ŸŒŸ 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.

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๐Ÿ“ข 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. ๐ŸŽค Sebastian Fischer ๐Ÿ“… August 27, 2026 ๐Ÿ•“ 4:00 PM GMT ๐Ÿ”— Register to attend: bit.ly/4h67hMZ

Promotional poster for the Bioconductor Developers' Forum announcing an August session on the {anvl} package. The session introduces {anvl}, an array computing framework for R that supports code transformations, just-in-time (JIT) compilation, and execution on GPU accelerators. It will provide an overview of the package's capabilities with practical demonstrations. Speaker: Sebastian Fischer. Date: August 27, 2026. Time: 4:00 PM GMT. A QR code is included for registration.

๐Ÿ“ข Join the next Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series where we'll explore approaches for combining omics data using statistical and machine learning methods. ๐ŸŽค Speakers: Dr. Himel Mallick & Nalin Arora ๐Ÿ“… Date: August 12, 2026 ๐Ÿ•“ Time: 13:00 UTC ๐Ÿ”— Register to attend here: bit.ly/4ceZDfO

Promotional poster for the Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series featuring the session "Multi-omics Data Integration with Bioconductor." The poster includes headshots of speakers Dr. Himel Mallick and Nalin Arora from Cornell University. The session will explore integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and microbiome data using statistical and machine learning approaches in Bioconductor. Date: August 12, 2026. Time: 4:00 PM EAT / 3:00 PM CAT / 2:00 PM WAT. A QR code is provided for registration.

๐Ÿ“ข Bioconductor Developers' Forum | July 2026 ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 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

Promotional graphic for a Bioconductor Developers' Forum session titled "The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books." The graphic explains that the session will discuss the design, maintenance challenges, and future sustainability of the Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books, which are widely used resources for learning single-cell analysis in Bioconductor. The event takes place on July 30, 2026, at 4:00 PM GMT and will be presented by Aaron Lun. A QR code is included for registration, alongside the Bioconductor logo.

๐Ÿ“ข 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. ๐Ÿ”— Register to attend: bit.ly/4fjAGlC

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๐Ÿ“ข 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

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๐Ÿ“ฃ Call for Workshop Proposals: BioCAsia 2026 BioCAsia 2026 will take place on 19โ€“20 November 2026 in Melbourne, Australia, and the call for workshop proposals is now open. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026 ๐Ÿ”— www.abacbs.org/workshops-20... #BioCAsia #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

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๐Ÿ“ข 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

Promotional graphic for the July 2026 Bioconductor Developers' Forum. The session, "The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books," will be presented by Aaron Lun on July 30, 2026, at 4:00 PM GMT. The graphic includes a brief description of the talk about the design, maintenance challenges, and sustainable development of the Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books, along with a QR code for registration and the Bioconductor logo.

๐Ÿ“ข Save the date: BiocAsia Seminar Series Topic: "A Single-Cell Spatially-Resolved Human Whole Transcriptome Atlas of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Associates Spatial Features with Clinical Response" Speaker: Dr Dharmesh Bhuva ๐Ÿ“…Tue, 14 July โฐ 4:00โ€“5:00 pm AEST ๐Ÿ”— Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: BiocAsia Seminar Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Please join us for the next in the BiocAsia Seminar Series. This seminar forms part of the Queensland Bioinformatics Week and will be presented live from the in-person event, in a hybrid format The event...

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๐Ÿงฌ Earlier this year, members of the Bioconductor community met on San Servolo Island, Italy, for a 3-day hackathon on spatial omics and bioimaging. The event produced a collaborative preprint to strengthen spatial omics support across Bioconductor. ๐Ÿ“– Learn more: bit.ly/43C5pDM

Group photo of participants at the Bioconductor Spatial Omics Hackathon on San Servolo Island, Italy. Researchers and software developers stand and kneel together on a terrace overlooking the Venetian lagoon, with water, distant buildings, and a partly cloudy sky in the background. Participants are wearing conference badges and posing for a group photograph during the event.

๐Ÿ“ข New package submissions to Bioconductor now go through BiocContributions. The new system uses GitHub Actions and R-universe to provide a more automated, reproducible, and streamlined review process for package authors. ๐Ÿ“– Read more: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-0... #Bioconductor

New Package Submission Process โ€“ Bioconductor community blog

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

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