Introduction To a beginner, open source can be one of the best pathways into a fulfilling tech career. It not only provides access to source codes but also connects you with a global community of people from diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Together, contributors share ideas, collaborate on projects, and continuously improve the software.

Introduction From November 17 to 25, 2025, Bioconductor held its first in-person training workshop in West Africa.

Introduction Following the success of our first in-person Bioconductor course in Nairobi earlier this year, we continued building momentum across the continent with Ethiopia’s first Bioconductor workshop, held in Addis Ababa from 25–29 August 2025.

{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

{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

Introduction GPU acceleration enables faster and more scalable analysis workflows, especially for tasks like deep learning, image processing, and large-scale genomics, making Bioconductor more powerful for researchers working with complex data.

Introduction The EDAM ontology is used to provide conceptual organization of resources in major initiatives like ELIXIR bio.tools and Galaxy. Bioconductor’s methods and data are tagged using an ad hoc terminologic hierarchy called biocViews.

Join us for an open developer forum exploring how R and Rust can work together in bioinformatics and Bioconductor development. Organised and hosted by Lluís Revilla (Bioconductor Community Advisory Board), this online session will discuss technical and practical aspects of using Rust alongside R - discussing extendr, Rust-based package development, and real-world use cases. Whether you’re Rust-curious or already experimenting, all are welcome.

From April 23rd to 25th, 2025, we hosted the first Bioconductor microbiome course in Brazil, a three-afternoon workshop held at the Interunits Post-Graduate Program of Bioinformatics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (link) in Belo Horizonte.

Introduction A major update to ggplot2 (version 4.0.0) is expected around mid-to-late July 2025 . It brings a significant internal change, replacing most of the S3 backend with the newer S7 object system. While this improves long-term maintainability and extensibility, it may break Bioconductor packages that depend on ggplot2, especially those that customise how plots are built or styled.

Introduction This blog post was written during CoFest (CollaborationFest) that took place after the 2025 Galaxy Bioconductor Community Conference, held this year at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.