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…
New ELIXIR community to coordinate genome and phenome research in domestic animals
Cette nouvelle Community ELIXIR « Génome et phénotype des animaux domestiques », co-dirigée par ELIXIR-FR, vise à développer un cycle de vie des données coordonné, ouvert et standardisé pour la recherche sur les animaux domestiques. Created to coordinate and advance research by linking genomes and…
BYTE-Sea, une plongée au cœur de l’infrastructure numérique du futur Atlas des génomes marins
The ATLASea exploratory research programme – Atlas of Marine Genomes, funded under the France 2030 plan, is structured around several targeted projects corresponding to different scientific and technological stages. Among these various projects, BYTE-Sea, led by the French Institute of…
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…