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 welcome the IFB Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
The program for the first 2 days included thematic presentations by our IFB platform representatives and IFB-core staff, in line with certain themes in our scientific program. At the end of each session, the IFB/ELIXIR-FR management team explained the challenges and prospects for our infrastructure around these themes, followed by time for collective discussion.
- Digital services and AI with presentations from the IFB Core-cluster; developments in Galaxy; the use of LLMs; bioimaging in the AI era; sharing and modeling Nextflow pipelines in HPC environments; EDAM MCP for more annotation of bioinfo resources.
- Orchestration of data flows with tools to facilitate the entry of Biology-Health metadata into data management plans (DMPs); how to structure and make interoperable thematic DMPs; the launch of madbot, a databrokering application to guarantee the adoption of FAIR standards and principles; services offered by the URGI platform for data FAIRification; data management in Metabarcoding.
- Software tools and data resources, with presentations on the alphaScan tool for screening protein interactions; Pyfiber, a web-based tool for analyzing photometry data; Panorama (name to be changed), a tool for using and visualizing pangenome graphs; MetamORF, a database of small ORFs; the information system developed by the ByteSea project (PEPR ATLASEA); ABRomics, the analysis platform for antibiotic resistance research.
For the final morning, we were delighted to welcome our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). On this occasion, two “Highlights” on the future deployment of a French FEGA node and the Cloud4SAMS project (PEPR SAMS) for the management of human gut microbiome data were proposed; followed by a thematic session/discussion on the handling of sensitive data at the IFB proposed and led by IFB management.
This annual get-together brought together our teams across France and strengthened our momentum for 2026.