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National infrastructurefor life sciencespecializing in bioinformaticsand French node of theEuropean ELIXIR infrastructure


News

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…

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IFB/ELIXIR-Fr wishes you all the best for 2026!

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.

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IFB delegation for the launch of RABIAS - December 2025 / From left to right: Hélène Chiapello; Jacques van Helden; Gildas le Corguilé; Julien Seiler

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),…

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In brief

An infrastructure serving a large life sciences research community

A federation of bioinformatics platformsand teams


20

member plateforms

17

Contributing platforms and associated teams

175

experts

1

coordination unit

A strong commitmentto research


8

major national projects

5

major european projects

230

publications in 2024

An increasing number of users of our services


98

training provided in 2024

12319

active accounts on the NNCR

2613

new users of the NNCR in 2024

A powerful computing infrastructure


IFB Cloud
10620

CPU

43372

GB RAM

IFB Cluster
17276

CPU

16

GPU

133.5

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…

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