A graphic showing the global spread of Carpentries workshops, and then disks with the number of workshops delivered, Instructors and and Instructor Trainers trained, and countries in which these activities took place.

Learn more in our latest blog post: carpentries.org/blog/2026/04...
#TheCarpentries #OpenScience #DataSkills

For PhD students or postdocs who start out wanting to analyse their own high-throughput data:

Let's #throwback to last month's webinar - Takeshi Harayama explored "Analysis of ether lipid structures, metabolic bias, and roles in ferroptosis" and hosted a live Q&A. If you missed it, watch the full recording now: www.lipidmaps.org/resources/ed...
#TBT #Lipid #Lipidomics

Developer Engagement and Bioconductor – Bioconductor community blog Introducing myself as the new Developer Engagement Lead for Bioconductor.

📣 Meet Nicholas Cooley, Bioconductor’s new Developer Engagement Lead

In his latest blog post, Nick reflects on taking this role and his goals for the Bioconductor community.

Find out more here: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-0...

Poster for the Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series titled “Introduction to Bioconductor.” It features a headshot of Kevin Rue-Albrecht (University of Oxford), a brief description of the session covering Bioconductor foundations and community engagement, and event details: April 15, 2026 at 4 PM EAT (3 PM CAT, 2 PM WAT). A QR code is included to access the Zoom link, and a note mentions an upcoming May 2026 session on microbiome data analysis

Bioconductor Africa is excited to kick off its Advanced Training Series with an introductory session on Bioconductor!

📅 Apr 15 2026
⏰ 4 PM EAT | 3 PM CAT | 2 PM WAT
👤 Speaker: Kevin Rue-Albrecht

🔗 Register to attend: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Coming up next in May: Microbiome data analysis

Galaxy Training Academy 2026 The Galaxy Training Academy is a self-paced online training event for beginners and advanced learners who want to improve their data analysis skills in Galaxy and/or in popular fields in bioinformatic...

🧬 Interested in genome assembly? Take a deeper dive at GTA 2026. Join us May 18–22 for a free, virtual, asynchronous week of hands-on Galaxy training and support from the community.

Learn more and register: training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

✍️ [blog] Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-Universe on Development of Common Infrastructure by rOpenSci and Bioconductor Teams

The R-consortium ISC top-level project R-universe is working with Bioconductor to gradually modernize parts of its infrastructure while accommodating the […]

Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-universe on Development of Common Infrastructure – Bioconductor community blog R-consortium ISC top-level project R-universe is working with Bioconductor to help gradually modernize parts of its infrastructure, while accommodating the project’s scale, governance, and…

🚨 Bioconductor and R-universe are joining forces to modernize infrastructure for bioinformatics tools while preserving the strong governance and review processes that have made Bioconductor a trusted resource for over 20 years.

🔗 Learn more: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-0...

Collaborating between Bioconductor and R-universe on Development of Common Infrastructure R-consortium ISC top-level project R-universe is working with Bioconductor to help gradually modernize parts of its infrastructure, while accommodating the project’s scale, governance, and established...

I'm very excited about this collaboration between @ropensci.org's R-Universe and @bioconductor.bsky.social to build common infrastructure: modernizing build systems for #RStats while expanding and testing new models for governance and development. ropensci.org/blog/2026/04...

April’s #LipidoftheMonth is a very unusual flavonoid, recently discovered here in Cardiff

lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi...

wikipathways wikipathways-help · Discussions Explore the GitHub Discussions forum for wikipathways wikipathways-help. Discuss code, ask questions & collaborate with the developer community.

okay, we think we completed making Classic read-only.

Please let us know if you find something unexpected, e.g. via our Discussion forum: github.com/wikipathways/wikipathway...

We have some good news, regarding the 19th @openmicroscopy.org (#OME) Community Meeting from 28.-30.4.2026! To ensure that everyone can participate, we have decided to hold the event in a hybrid format.

👉 Receive further information about your online participation: gerbi-gmb.de/machform/vie...

R User Community · Events Calendar View and subscribe to events from R User Community on Luma.

Experimenting with Luma for an R Community Calendar. If anyone is running an event, and wants to take part in this project, please get in touch #rstats

luma.com/R_User_Commu...

Webinar at EMBL-EBI: Automatic annotation systems in UniProt. 12 March 2026, 15:00-16:00 GMT

Webinar speakers (with headshots): David CJ Carpentier, Scientific Database Curator; Pedro Raposo, Senior Curator/Bioinformatician. EMBL-EBI

If you are interested in knowing how #UniProt uses automatic annotation tools to enrich its data, join our #webinar on 12 March: we will discuss the two main tools currently in use in the database, ARBA and UniRule.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

🖥️🧬

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF26W) Course DescriptionThis eight-week course is for new or existing community managers who are looking to learn about core frameworks and vocabulary to describe their community and their role within it. W...

If you’re interested in growing as a community professional in STEM, we encourage you to sign up for our next CEF cohort, which begins on Thursday. 19 March (reg deadline is this Thursday, 5 March): www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Please Update Your AMY Profile! We have recently released some updates on AMY, our community data management software. We are calling on our Instructors, Instructor Trainers, Maintainers, and all other Carpentries community members ...

🔊 We recently released updates on AMY, our community data management software, and are calling on our community members with a profile on AMY to please take a few minutes to update your airport location (now a required field) and any other information on your profile: carpentries.org/blog/2026/03...

A Few Claude Skills for R Users – R Works The community has come together to create some great Claude Skills that you can try out today.

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.

Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.

Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡

rworks.dev/posts/claude...

The future of #DataScience is at #positconf 2026. Check out our keynote lineup:
Wes McKinney: Future of high-performance computing
Christine Zhang: Data storytelling at NY Times
Emily Riederer: Scaling open-source at Capital One
Sara Altman & Simon Couch: AI-driven workflows
Register: pos.it/conf

BioAIrepo: EMBL-EBI’s hub for life science AI models New EMBL-EBI repository helps researchers share and reuse machine learning models trained on life science data.

BioAIrepo: EMBL-EBI’s hub for life science AI models
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

A Milestone for Global Image Data Interoperability - FoundingGIDE The FBbi ontology has been migrated to a dedicated repository at https://github.com/foundingGIDE/fbbi, where new releases will be made available. To ensure the ontology remains community-driven, GerBI...

A significant step forward in standardizing biological imaging data.
Our project partners, @gerbi-gmb.de and @bioimagearchive.bsky.social, will assure the continued development of the #FBbi ontology. Discuss this milestone and many other at our Community Event 4-6 May! tinyurl.com/26rbksyx

Important: WikiPathways Technical Transition - Action Required for Some Users

Dear WikiPathways Community,

Effective April 1st, 2026, we will begin taking major steps toward retiring the classic WikiPathways backend as we complete our migration to our GitHub-based infrastructure.

1/ […]

Perspectives in computational mass spectrometry: recent developments and key challenges Abstract. Summary: Mass spectrometry (MS) is a cornerstone technology in modern molecular biology, powering diverse applications across proteomics, metabol

Perspectives in computational mass spectrometry: recent developments and key challenges url: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Hacking for Metabolomics & Mass Spectrometry format interoperability - NFDI4Chem The ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe took place 3–7 November 2025 in Bad Saarow near Berlin. Among the ~30 Projects was the “Metabolomics and proteomics file format interoperability fest”, co-organised by S...

Hacking for Metabolomics & Mass Spectrometry format interoperability
www.nfdi4chem.de/metabolomics...

xcms in Peak Form: Now Anchoring a Complete Metabolomics Data Preprocessing and Analysis Software Ecosystem High-quality data preprocessing is essential for untargeted metabolomics experiments, where increasing data set scale and complexity demand adaptable, robust, and reproducible software solutions. Modern preprocessing tools must evolve to integrate seamlessly with downstream analysis platforms, ensuring efficient and streamlined workflows. Since its introduction in 2005, the xcms R package has become one of the most widely used tools for LC-MS data preprocessing. Developed through an open-source, community-driven approach, xcms maintains long-term stability while continuously expanding its capabilities and accessibility. We present recent advancements that position xcms as a central component of a modular and interoperable software ecosystem for metabolomics data analysis. Key improvements include enhanced scalability, enabling the processing of large-scale experiments with thousands of samples on standard computing hardware. These developments empower users to build comprehensive, customizable, and reproducible workflows tailored to diverse experimental designs and analytical needs. An expanding collection of tutorials, documentation, and teaching materials further supports both new and experienced users in leveraging broader R and Bioconductor ecosystems. These resources facilitate the integration of statistical modeling, visualization tools, and domain-specific packages, extending the reach and impact of xcms workflows. Together, these enhancements solidify xcms as a cornerstone of modern metabolomics research.

Out now! xcms in Peak Form: Now Anchoring a Complete Metabolomics Data Preprocessing and Analysis Software Ecosystem doi.org/10.1021/acs....
with Phillipine and @jorainer.bsky.social (EURAC), @metabomichael.bsky.social, Hendrik and Norman from @ipbhalle.bsky.social, @janstanstrup.bsky.social, et al.

Great work from @philouail.bsky.social 🙌

#xcms now fully integrated into @bioconductor.bsky.social 💪

👉 #metabolomics #MassSpectrometry #rstats

Eduomics: a Nextflow pipeline to simulate -omics data for education www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/lescai-teach...

Community Events There are many opportunities to join community meetings, subcommittees and debriefing sessions. Find links to them on this Etherpad, and subscribe to the Google calendar below or use this ics feed to…

Upcoming community sessions this week
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Events are in UTC Time :

📣 Workbench Transition Coworking
24 Nov 09:00 & 19:00

📣 👋 Welcome Session with The Carpentries
24 Nov 12:00

🇬🇧 UK Carpentries Community Call
24 Nov 16:00

🕸️ Creating a workshop website
25 Nov 09:00

Bioconductor in Africa: Ethiopia’s First In-Person Course – Bioconductor community blog A blog for the Bioconductor community!

🌍 We are proud to share highlights from Ethiopia’s first in-person Bioconductor workshop, held in Addis Ababa from 25-29 Aug 2025!

The course united 26 participants for five days of hands-on training in R/Bioconductor and bulk RNASeq analysis.

🔗 Read more: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-1...