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…
Usegalaxy.fr, France’s open-source data analysis platform
Galaxy is a free, open-source platform that is a must-have for the life science research community. Thanks to its “click-button” web interface, Galaxy enables non-experts of the Unix command line to analyze their data. But Galaxy is much more than that: it enables the creation and…
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…
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…