🌟 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.
🎉 Introducing the Bioconductor Student-ECR Council!
Born from EuroBioC2026 BoF discussions, the Council will support students and early-career researchers with mentorship, networking, professional development, and opportunities to contribute to Bioconductor.
Their planned initiatives include:
✨ Mentorship programmes
🎓 Career and research seminars
🛠️ Hands-on workshops
... and more.
Interested in joining? Connect on Zulip: https://bit.ly/4yYVxT0
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4giOlJ1
🌟 BioC2026 Silver sponsor spotlight: R Consortium!
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, R consortium, for supporting the Bioconductor community and 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. 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.
Thank you Posit for helping make #BioC2026 possible.
📢 Join the August Bioconductor Developers' Forum!
This month's Developers' Forum will introduce {anvl}, an array computing framework that supports automatic code transformations, JIT compilation, and execution on GPU accelerators.
Learn about the package's core capabilities and see how it can be applied through practical demonstrations.
🎤 Speaker: Sebastian Fischer
📅 Date: August 27, 2026
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM GMT
🔗 Register to attend: https://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:
🎟️ https://ti.to/nf-projects/bioc2026
📢 Join the next Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series!
In this session, we'll explore approaches for combining genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and microbiome data using statistical and machine learning methods.
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Himel Mallick & Nalin Arora (Cornell University)
📅 Date: August 12, 2026
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM EAT | 3:00 PM CAT | 2:00 PM WAT
🔗 Register to attend here: https://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.
We encourage proposals on Bioconductor software and workflows, as well as topics such as single-cell and spatial omics, reproducible workflows, cloud computing, machine learning, genomics, microbiome analysis, and more.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026
🔗 https://www.abacbs.org/workshops-2026-call
📢 Bioconductor Developers' Forum | July 2026
🗓️ Today, July 30, 2026 | 4:00 PM GMT
Topic: The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books
Presenter: Aaron Lun
The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books are key Bioconductor resources for learning single-cell analysis, but maintaining them presents ongoing challenges. Join us to discuss their design, maintenance challenges, and strategies for more sustainable book development.
Register to attend: https://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: https://bit.ly/4xpG5hQ
📌 Submit your late-breaking poster: https://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 the BioC2026 Conference.
Ben's talk tackles head-on the infrastructure challenges that come with biology's explosive growth in data scale and complexity.
Join us to hear how his team is engineering solutions designed to keep pace with the field's rapidly evolving demands.
🔗 Register to attend: https://bioc2026.bioconductor.org/
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: https://bit.ly/4xpG5hQ
📌 Submit your late-breaking poster: https://bit.ly/4efxyqh
In November 2025, researchers from across West Africa gathered at the University of Abomey-Calavi for a week-long hands-on workshop on Bioconductor, R and bulk RNA-seq data analysis.
🎥 Watch the recap below and read how about the workshop here: https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-12-11-benin-course/
Thank you to the University of Abomey-Calavi (GBioS and URMAPha), the University of Limerick, IITA, the instructors, classroom helpers and every participant who made the workshop such a success.
📢 After BioC2026 wraps up, the learning will continue with two post-conference events on 13-14 August in Seattle.
- Single-cell RNA-seq Workshop
Gain hands-on experience analysing large-scale single-cell RNA-seq data with Bioconductor.
Sign up 👉 https://bit.ly/4et8Djg
- Bioconductor Hackathon
Code, collaborate, contribute, and connect with the Bioconductor community.
Sign up 👉 https://bit.ly/44rgGqN
Learn more about both events: https://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.
We encourage proposals on Bioconductor software and workflows, as well as topics such as single-cell and spatial omics, reproducible workflows, cloud computing, machine learning, genomics, microbiome analysis, and more.
🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026
🔗 https://www.abacbs.org/workshops-2026-call
📢 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: https://bit.ly/4xpG5hQ
📌 Submit your late-breaking poster: https://bit.ly/4efxyqh
Two exciting post-conference events will take place 13-14 August 2026, immediately following BioC2026.
1. Hands-on Workshop
Learn large-scale single-cell RNA-seq analysis using Bioconductor.
👉 Sign up: https://bit.ly/4et8Djg
2. Bioconductor Hackathon
Collaborate with the Bioconductor community on package development, documentation, workflows, and other community-driven projects.
👉 Sign up: https://bit.ly/44rgGqN
📖 Learn more about both events: https://bit.ly/4eHWR3k
📢 Bioconductor Developers' Forum | July 2026
🗓️ July 30, 2026 | 4:00 PM GMT
Topic: The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books
Presenter: Aaron Lun
The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books are key Bioconductor resources for learning single-cell analysis, but maintaining them presents ongoing challenges. Join us to discuss their design, maintenance challenges, and strategies for more sustainable book development.
Register to attend: https://bit.ly/4gApqlU
🌟 Annual Nominations Open for CAB & TAB! 🌟
Want to contribute to Bioconductor, or know someone who should? Join our advisory boards!
🌐 Community Advisory Board (CAB):
- Enable productive and respectful participation
- Empower user and developer communities
🔧 Technical Advisory Board (TAB):
- Ensure long-term technical suitability
- Develop funding strategies for project viability
📅 Apply by Aug 31:
CAB: https://forms.gle/qXwPqEzPET45MimW7
TAB: https://forms.gle/MLYBYDgdbU1CUVU99
