#!/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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IFB/ELIXIR-FR training courses organised in 2025
The year 2025 was marked by strong momentum around the training courses organized by the Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB) / ELIXIR France. Artificial intelligence, reproducible workflows, omics data analysis, and in various formats: BYOD tutoring, courses, workshops, etc. These…
A look back at All-hands 2025 IFB/ELIXIR-EN
This new edition of All-hands IFB-ELIXIR-FR took place from December 2 to 4, 2025 at the Institut des systèmes complexes, in the presence of representatives of our member platforms, contributors and associated teams, as well as all the IFB-core teams. For this new edition, we were delighted to…
Cloud4SAMS Hackathon: towards more secure and accessible microbiome data
The Cloud4SAMS development team met on November 19 and 20 at the IFB-core premises on the CNRS campus in Villejuif for a hackathon dedicated to innovation and the evolution of the project. Two days of intense work to offer even more features for our digital infrastructure. The ultimate goal? To…
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
Focus
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…









