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…
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…
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.