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…
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…
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),…