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),…
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…
This project received state aid managed by the National Research Agency under France 2030 with reference “22-PESN-0008”.
From June 2nd to 5th, the ELIXIR-FR team was in Thessaloniki (Greece) to participate in the ELIXIR 2025 All Hands Meeting, the general assembly of the European ELIXIR infrastructure. This 11th edition brought together representatives from the various ELIXIR nodes, institutional and scientific…
Rtrainer, the application for self-training in the R language
RTrainer is an innovative educational tool designed to develop essential skills in bioinformatics analysis, for use in the R language in the scientific community. Developed in 2023 by Denis Puthier of the TAGC in Marseille (an associate team of the French Institute of Bioinformatics – IFB),…
MassiveFold, the tool to reveal the full potential of AlphaFold
MassiveFold, an optimized version of AlphaFold, overcomes these obstacles by offering advanced sampling capabilities. Developed with the support of the IFB and in collaboration with various computing centers, MassiveFold opens new perspectives for the modeling of protein structures . To learn more,…