JOBIM 2026 – A look back at this wonderful event in Strasbourg
From 30 June to 3 July 2026, the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB/ELIXIR-FR) travelled to Strasbourg for the latest edition of JOBIM, the major annual gathering of the French-speaking bioinformatics community. It was a packed and highly engaging four days of talks, posters, demonstrations…
Six ELIXIR-FR projects selected for BioHackathon Europe 2026
The BioHackathon Europe, organised annually by ELIXIR Europe, returns from 9 to 13 November 2026 at Campus Belloch, around 30 minutes from Barcelona, Spain. This international event brings together researchers, bioinformaticians and developers for an intensive week of collaborative hacking,…
A look back at the Galaxy Community Conference 2026
From 22 to 26 June, a delegation from IFB/ELIXIR-FR was in Clermont-Ferrand to take part in the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 (GCC2026), the Galaxy community’s flagship international event. Co-organised by Clermont Auvergne University (UCA), the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB/ELIXIR-FR)…
IFB/ELIXIR-FR at France Génomique’s 2026 Annual General Meeting
IFB/ELIXIR-FR was represented on 25 and 26 June at the France Génomique (FG) General Assembly, through its member platforms at IFB, which are also affiliated with FG. This strong and diverse turnout is a testament to the vitality of the links between the two infrastructures.
Review of the ELIXIR 2026 All Hands Meeting in Lyon
From 8 to 10 June, a delegation from ELIXIR France (IFB/ELIXIR-FR) was in Lyon to take part in the ELIXIR 2026 All Hands Meeting (AHM), the general assembly of the European ELIXIR infrastructure. This 12th edition, held in France for the first time, brought together representatives from the various…
A review of the IFB AI hackathon
From 1 to 3 June 2026, IFB/ELIXIR-FR brought together around thirty participants at the CNRS campus in Villejuif for a hackathon dedicated to artificial intelligence applied to biology, combining presentations and technical sessions. Organised as part of the IFB’s strategic AI focus and the…
Conference on AI for software development and biological data analysis on 12 June in Paris
Generative artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly integrated into scientific programming practices, particularly in bioanalysis and bioinformatics. Against this backdrop, the MERIT network, the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB) and the iPOP-UP platform at Paris Cité University are…
Hackathon IA - Etat des lieux à l’IFB/ELIXIR-FR & sessions hacking
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…
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?’.…