📢 Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series: How to develop and submit a package to Bioconductor
Join us for this session where we will cover the key steps involved in building a Bioconductor package, from structuring and documenting R code to testing, checking, and preparing a package for submission. .
🎤 Speaker: Dr Fabricio Almeida-Silva
📅 Dates: October 28, 2026
🕓 Time: 4 PM EAT / 3 PM CAT / 2 PM WAT
Register to attend: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HXnVPaMwT4qbtiydBDyR-w
BioC2026 brought the Bioconductor community together in Seattle for three days to explore current developments within and beyond the Bioconductor project.
From inspiring talks and posters to workshops, package demos, and the hackathon, it was a great celebration of 25 years of Bioconductor.
Read the full recap: https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-09-30-BioC2026-recap/
📢 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: https://forms.gle/WWCZAX7uuPfr1Tw66
📢 Are you part of the Bioconductor community? We’d love to hear from you!
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: https://forms.gle/WWCZAX7uuPfr1Tw66
📢 Are you part of the Bioconductor community? We’d love to hear from you!
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: https://forms.gle/WWCZAX7uuPfr1Tw66
📢 Join the September Bioconductor Developers' Forum!
Interested in improving the performance of R packages? This month's Developers' Forum will explore two complementary approaches to more efficient R package development. Learn how to identify and manage heavy dependencies using {havel} and {rlang}, and explore performance profiling with {bench} and {profvis}.
🎤 Speaker: Andrew Ghazi
📅 Date: September 24, 2026
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM GMT
🔗 Register to attend: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YUrfMMLHRzinsjQz94hMYw
✈️ APPLY NOW: 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 early-career researchers who would like to attend the conference, connect with the Bioconductor community, and engage with researchers and bioinformatics professionals from across the Asia-Pacific region.
Apply here 👇️ https://biocasia2026.bioconductor.org/travel-scholarship/
🎉BiocAsia 2026 Sponsor spotlight!
SAiGENCI – South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute, through the Computational System Oncology Program, is a main supporter of BiocAsia 2026!
We’re incredibly grateful for their support in bringing the Bioconductor community across the Asia-Pacific region together by helping make BiocAsia 2026 possible!
📢 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
📍 BETin, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your understanding. We look forward to welcoming participants to Addis Ababa.
Apply to attend: https://bit.ly/4xvDUsf
Learn more about the workshop: https://bit.ly/4xB6GYC
🎥 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: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMYePXTcNLQo
🧬 Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series: Single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis with Bioconductor
This seminar series will explore software and analysis workflows covering best practices for scRNA-seq data filtering, cell cluster analysis, and temporal ordering, with a focus on gaining accurate insights from preprocessing through to interpretation.
🎤 Speaker: Jacques Serizay (CNRS Research Fellow)
📅 Sep 16 & 23, 2026
🕓 4 PM EAT | 2 PM WAT
Register to attend: https://bit.ly/45Kk40M
📢 Bioconductor Developer Survey
Are you part of the Bioconductor community? We’d love to hear from you!
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: https://forms.gle/WWCZAX7uuPfr1Tw66
We look forward to hearing from you!
🚀 Introducing BiocJobs: declaring dispatchable jobs inside Bioconductor packages
BiocJobs lets package authors declare analyses that can run as batch jobs and generate wrappers for Galaxy, GA4GH TES, Nextflow and WDL from that one declaration instead of maintaining separate hand-written wrappers.
The first implementation was built at the #BioC2026 hackathon using DESeq2. The project is now looking for feedback from package and workflow developers.
🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4zBj7pa
📢 1 Week Left to apply or nominate someone for the Bioconductor 2026 Advisory Boards!
🌐 Community Advisory Board (CAB) - advance engagement, training, outreach, and inclusion across Bioconductor: https://bit.ly/4hugFKG
🔧 Technical Advisory Board (TAB) - help guide Bioconductor's technical direction and sustainability: https://bit.ly/4gqi3Ng
🗓️Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
📣 Just a few days left to submit your workshop proposal for BiocAsia 2026!
BiocAsia 2026 will take place on 19-20 Nov 2026 in Melbourne, Australia and the call for workshop proposals closes soon
We encourage proposals on:
•Bioconductor software and workflows
•Single-cell and spatial omics
•Reproducible workflows
•Cloud computing
•Machine learning
•Genomics
•Microbiome analysis
•And more!
🗓️ Workshop proposal submissions close on 21 Aug 2026
🔗 Submit your proposal: https://bit.ly/4xATFhN
📢Bioconductor will hold a hands-on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor workshop in Addis Ababa this September
Over 5 days, participants will learn how to:
• Analyse complex microbiome datasets using R and Bioconductor
• Manage and integrate multi-modal microbiome data
• Build reproducible and scalable analysis pipelines
📅 21–25 September 2026
📍 BETin, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Register to attend: https://bit.ly/4xvDUsf
Learn more about this workshop: https://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.
The central mission of the R Consortium is to work with and provide support to the R Foundation and to the key organizations developing, maintaining, distributing and using R software through the identification, development and implementation of infrastructure projects.
🌟 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. Built on the belief that analyses should be correct, transparent, and reproducible, Posit empowers researchers by bringing together the strengths of humans and AI to tackle the world's most important data-driven challenges.
🌟 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 supporting the Bioconductor community and helping make BioC2026 possible.
