LLMs for learning to code, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG, layoffs & AI, DuckDB for data science, Anthropic+Iceland, AI in science, AI in drug discovery, Nextflow &

It is with great excitement that we release DeepForest 2.0! This is the first major release since the project took shape in its current form. The codebase has been updated to match modern machine learning workflows, including better command line tools, configurations and package management.

I’ve dabbled a bit with napari – the python-based image viewer – but never needed to use it seriously. I had a real use case so I thought I’d write up the process of how I got going with napari, in case it helps others.

WIRED published a special issue with 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age

59 new software packages, updates for genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, spatial omics, QC tooling, core I/O, GFF/CIGAR handling, much more.

AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers &

Here we go again! I ran the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon 2025 and wanted to look at the race results. How can we do this using R? I couldn’t see an easy way to download the data, so I used R to scrape them.

Biopython 1.86 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This contains about nine months worth of updates, and is our first release with Python 3.14 support. See change-log in the news file (most of the changes are in Bio.Align and Bio.PDB). There have also been a few deprecations and removals of older code.

Polyglot data science pipeline (R+Python+Julia) with rixpress, EuroBioC2025/BCN, Python packaging for R devs, Python in 2025, R/Pharma, DARPA, ASHG, the R Data Scientist, Quarto, universities and AI

{width=“70%; class=”zoomable”; height:200px;“} The European Bioconductor conference 2025 (EuroBioC2025) took place between September 17 and 19, 2025, and was hosted at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) in Barcelona by the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS-UPF)and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The Catalan capital boasts a rich culture, a lively atmosphere, and a blend

Moving from Google Docs to Word will break your Zotero citations/bibliography linkages unless you do this first.