#!/bin/shGALAXY_PID=${GALAXY_PID:galaxy.pid}PID_FILE=$GALAXY_PIDLOG_FILE=$GALAXY_LOGexport GALAXY_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_TOOL_CONFIG_FILE= "test/functional/tools/samples_tool_conf.xml"export GALAXY_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_ENABLE_BETA_TOOL_FORMATS= "true" else echo "No PID found in '$server.pid' yet"# If there is a file that defines a shell environment specific to this# instance of Galaxy, source the file
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Launch of madbot: a new tool for managing and sharing scientific data
The launch of madbot, announced in preview at the All-Hands IFB/ELIXIR-FR meeting in early December 2025, is now available to the scientific community. Researchers and research stakeholders can now explore, test and use madbot to organise, orchestrate and publish their scientific data in a simpler…
Happy New Year 2026
✨ The entire IFB/ELIXIR-Fr team sends you its best wishes and hopes you have a wonderful 2026! ✨After a fruitful 2025, this new year begins with ambitious prospects and challenges, and we remain committed to meeting the expectations of our communities.
IFB attends meeting between West African and French networks on bioinformatics
From 15 to 17 December 2025, a delegation from the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB/ELIXIR-FR), the French Society for Bioinformatics (SFBI) and the University of Montpellier was invited to the launch of the West African Network of Bioinformaticians and System Administrators (RABIAS),…
In brief
An infrastructure serving a large life sciences research community
A federation of bioinformatics platformsand teams
member plateforms
Contributing platforms and associated teams
experts
coordination unit
A strong commitmentto research
major national projects
major european projects
publications in 2024

An increasing number of users of our services
training provided in 2024
active accounts on the NNCR
new users of the NNCR in 2024
A powerful computing infrastructure
IFB Cloud
CPU
GB RAM
IFB Cluster
CPU
GPU
TB RAM
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FAIR-Checker: a tool to improve the quality of your web resources
FAIR-Checker, a service developed by the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB), is an online tool that facilitates evaluation based on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles, reporting metrics, and improving metadata quality for life science web resources. With a…










