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…
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…
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),…
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…
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,…