AI Hackathon – Update from IFB/ELIXIR-FR and development sessions
As part of its strategic focus on artificial intelligence and the MUDIS4LS project, the IFB/ELIXIR-FR is organising an AI hackathon from 1 to 3 June 2026 at the CNRS campus in Villejuif. This event, aimed at IFB-core and IFB member platforms, contributors and associated teams, spread over four…
Cloud4SAMS on the agenda for the PEPR SAMS Annual Day
For the second year running, the France 2030 research programme ‘Food Systems, Microbiomes and Health’ (PEPR SAMS) organised its annual scientific conference, which was attended by the Cloud4SAMS project team. This year’s event took place on 31 March and 1 April in the auditorium of the Imagine…
Presentation of madbot at the Pasteur Institute
Invited to the Pasteur Institute on 1 April 2026 for a seminar, the madbot project team presented our new tool—which addresses the challenges of managing, sharing and submitting biological data—to an audience of around fifty people. The meeting also provided an opportunity to discuss the tool’s…
Workshop metabarcoding data FAIRification - 10 april 2026
The MUDIS4LS project, coordinated by the IFB, is organising a workshop on FAIR compliance for metabarcoding data on 10 April 2026. The FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) have now become a key and essential indicator of robust science. Not sure where to start? The…
PF ABiMS invited to BioStream!
On 4 March, Erwan Corre, head of ABiMS in Roscoff (29), an IFB member platform, was one of the guests on BioStream. The topic of this new episode of the monthly live show (broadcast on YouTube and Twitch) by Jeunes Bioinformaticiens de France (JeBiF) was ‘What is a bioinformatics platform?’.…
Webinar on Health Data Interoperability - 20 March 2026
The IFB has been invited to a webinar on the interoperability of health and medical research data, organised by INSERM on Wednesday 20 March 2026, from 9am to 5pm.
MERIT Network WG Webinar on ‘FAIR and Reproducibility’ - 11 March 2026
The FAIR, reproducibility and workflows working group of the MERIT network (MetiER en bIoinformaTique du CNRS) is organising its first webinar on Wednesday 11 March from 2pm to 3pm, in association with the IFB.
Galaxy Community Conference 2026 - registration now open
The Galaxy Community Conference 2026 (GCC2026), the flagship event of the Galaxy community, co-organized by Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB/ELIXIR-FR) and Johns Hopkins University, will be held from June 22 to 24, 2026 in Clermont-Ferrand (63), followed…
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…
IFB/ELIXIR-FR at BioHackathon Europe 2025
For this new edition of BioHackathon Europe, organised by ELIXIR Europe, participants and the ELIXIR France delegation travelled to Berlin from 3 to 7 November 2025. This international collaborative event brought together around 175 (in person) and 290 (remotely) researchers, bioinformaticians and…
JOBIM 2025 - A look back at a great edition in Bordeaux
From July 8 to 11, 2025, the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB/ELIXIR-FR) was in Bordeaux for JOBIM 2025, a major annual event for the French-speaking bioinformatics community. Conferences, posters, demonstrations, informal discussions… A look back at a particularly rich edition for the…