Bioconductor

@bioconductor.bsky.social

Bioconductor: Free, open-source software for rigorous, reproducible biological data analysis with R. Join our diverse community of developers and data scientists. https://bioconductor.org/

🎉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!

Bild

📢 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

Workshop announcement for "Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor" showing a large red POSTPONED stamp, scheduled 23–27 Nov 2026 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, noting a week‑long program, QR code to register, and partner logos along the bottom.

🧬 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

Bioconductor Africa seminar "Single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis with Bioconductor" — two sessions on Sep 16 & 23, 2026 at 4 PM EAT / 3 PM CAT / 2 PM WAT, presented by Jacques Serizay (CNRS Research Fellow); QR code to register; covers preprocessing, clustering and temporal ordering of

📢 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!

Bioconductor developer survey

Thank you for taking the time to complete this Bioconductor developer survey. For the purposes of this survey, "developer" includes package developers as well as contributors involved in…

forms.gle

🚀 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

BiocJobs: declaring dispatchable jobs inside Bioconductor packages – Bioconductor community blog

An early framework letting package authors declare, inside their own package, the analyses that make sense to run as batch jobs, and generating Galaxy, GA4GH task execution, Nextflow and WDL wrappers…

blog.bioconductor.org

🌟 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.

Bioconductor thank-you for BioC2026 acknowledging CORTEX as a Gold Sponsor, featuring large "THANK YOU" lettering, "BioC2026" and "was Proudly Supported By" text, the CORTEX logo, colorful cheering figures, and a caption about community generosity.

🌟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 message for BioC2026 acknowledging R Consortium as a Silver Sponsor, featuring the Bioconductor logo, large colorful "THANK YOU" text, a boxed R Consortium logo with a "SILVER SPONSOR" badge, rainbow-colored raised-arms figures, and the line "Your generosity helped bring our community

🌟 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.

BioC2026 sponsor spotlight for CORTEX: Bioconductor logo at top, large circular CORTEX logo with a "Gold Sponsor" badge, plus a short blurb calling CORTEX a knowledge infrastructure for reproducible science and the URL bioc2026.bioconductor.org.

🌟 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 Sponsor Spotlight announcing R Consortium as a Silver Sponsor, featuring Bioconductor branding at top, the R Consortium logo inside a green-blue circle, a short mission blurb, and the conference URL bioc2026.bioconductor.org.

🌟 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.

BioC2026 Sponsor Spotlight graphic featuring Posit as a Silver Sponsor, with the Posit logo and the text: "Posit creates exceptional software that helps individuals, teams, and organizations understand and make better decisions with data

📢 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

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.

📢 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

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.

📢 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

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.

📢 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

Bild

📢 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

Bild

📢 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.