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Outreachy December 2024 Interns with Bioconductor

Outreachy
open science
Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2024 to March 2025 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and Bioconductor in general.
Apr 23, 2025
Kate Rasheed, Divine Aleru

Bioconductor Community Advisory Board

Bioconductor
CAB
An introduction to the new Co-Chair
Mar 5, 2025
Stevie Pederson

Bioconductor Carpentry: Celebrating Two Years of Global Training

education
Carpentries
As we complete two years of Instructor training, we reflect on our journey since becoming a member of The Carpentries in August 2022 (announcement). Our goal was to train 30…
Feb 28, 2025
Maria Doyle

Open Science Mentoring: My Journey with Outreachy Mentees

Outreachy
open science
Bioconductor has been participating in the Outreachy Internship program since 2022. In this post, I, Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic, a senior researcher in microbiome science…
Feb 26, 2025
Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

2024 SpatialData Workshop

Bioconductor
R/Bioconductor developers participating in the 1st scverse SpatialData Workshop
Jan 8, 2025
Artür Manukyan

EuroBioC2024 conference recap

Bioconductor
Highlights from the 2024 Bioconductor European Conference in Oxford.
Sep 20, 2024
Maria Doyle

Announcing the First Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference (GBCC 2025)

Bioconductor
Join us at CSHL, New York, June 23-26!
Sep 3, 2024
Maria Doyle (Bioconductor), Natalie Whitaker-Allen (Galaxy)

Outreachy May 2024

Outreachy
open science
Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the May 2024 cohort. In this post, our intern shares her journey, detailing her experience working on the Microbiome Study Curation project and Bioconductor in general.
Aug 15, 2024
Scholastica Urua

BioC2024 conference recap

Bioconductor
Highlights from the 2024 Bioconductor North American Conference in Grand Rapids.
Aug 12, 2024
Maria Doyle

Beatriz Calvo-Serra: inaugural Bioconductor Athena Award winner

Bioconductor
Celebrating Bea’s contributions, resilience, and the inaugural Bioconductor Athena Award in her honor.
Jul 29, 2024
Robert Castelo, Maria Doyle, Aedin Culhane

Bioconductor highlights from the CZI Open Science Meeting

Bioconductor
CZI
Last month, members of the Bioconductor community attended the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Open Science Meeting in Boston. This meeting was for current CZI Open Science…
Jul 24, 2024
Maria Doyle

New R-Ladies–Bioconductor collaboration!

Bioconductor
RLadies
Announcing a new collaboration between R-Ladies and Bioconductor
Jul 20, 2024
Janani Ravi

Bioconductor projects funded by CZI EOSS Cycle 6

Bioconductor
CZI
Carpentries
Announcing the Bioconductor projects funded in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative EOSS Cycle 6
Jul 12, 2024
Maria Doyle

Updated welcome message for the Bioconductor Community Slack workspace

Bioconductor
Welcome to the Bioconductor Community Slack Workspace! 🎉
Jul 10, 2024
Maria Doyle

Launching the New Bioconductor.org

Bioconductor
Website Redesign
A look into the final updates, community-driven improvements, and what’s next for our website.
Feb 1, 2024
Maria Doyle

Journey of Growth: Our Internship experience with Bioconductor

Outreachy
open science
Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2023 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and Bioconductor in general.
Jan 31, 2024
Chioma Onyido, Afuape Esther, Peace Sandy

Bioconductor is leaving Twitter/X

Bioconductor
We’re transitioning away from Twitter/X in favor of platforms more aligned with our Code of Conduct.
Nov 17, 2023
Maria Doyle

We had a blast at BioC2023! Here’s what happened.

Bioconductor
events
BioC2023 kicked off at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA. It was opened by Vincent Carey, Professor of Medicine at Harvard and co-founder of the Bioconductor…
Aug 17, 2023
Anna Powell

Taking Bioconductor.org to the Next Level: Community, Collaboration and Progress

Bioconductor
Website Redesign
Discover the recent advancements in the Bioconductor.org website redesign project, including the survey’s user insights, UX audit, collaborative workshops, UX testing, and the build phase, all leading to an exciting sneak peek at BioC2023.
Aug 1, 2023
Maria Doyle

Our Journey as Outreachy Interns with Bioconductor

Outreachy
open science
Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the May 2023 cohort. Join us as we share our enriching experience working on various projects at Bioconductor and delve into the world of open science.
Jul 14, 2023
Sonali Kumari, Daena Rys, Atrayee Samanta

Testing Packages on Linux ARM64 with GitHub Actions

tech-notes
GitHub Actions
ARM64
How to use GitHub Actions to systematically build and test a Bioconductor package on Linux ARM64 architecture.
Jul 14, 2023
Mike L. Smith

Reimagining Bioconductor.org: The Path to Our Website Redesign

Bioconductor
Website Redesign
Discover the journey of Bioconductor’s website redesign project. Learn about the process, from initial planning to collaboration with NearForm as we shape the future of Bioconductor.org.
Jun 22, 2023
Maria Doyle

Bioconductor’s Participation in Galaxy Smorgasbord 2023: A Recap

events
education
Bioconductor made its first appearance at the Galaxy Smorgasbord this year. This post provides a summary of our successful participation.
Jun 16, 2023
Maria Doyle, Alex Mahmoud

ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2023

Bioconductor
Bioconductor’s participation in ELIXIR All Hands Meeting in Dublin, Ireland, June 2023.
Jun 16, 2023
Anna Powell

Emulated build and test of Bioconductor packages for Linux ARM64

tech-notes
ARM64
Build and test for Linux ARM64 with Docker on x86_64 host
Jun 9, 2023
Martin Grigorov

Renaming the Default Branch to Devel

Bioconductor
During the 3.17 devel cycle, Bioconductor will rename the default branch devel.
Mar 1, 2023
J Wokaty

Bioconductor Carpentries instructors Year 1

education
Carpentries
An update on the Bioconductor Carpentries global training program - applicants selected for Year 1
Feb 24, 2023
Maria Doyle

Introducing CuratedAtlasQueryR package

Package
CuratedAtlasQueryR is a new package that enables easy programmatic exploration of CELLxGENE single-cell human cell atlas data.
Feb 23, 2023
Maria Doyle, Stefano Mangiola

Our experience as Outreachy interns with Bioconductor

Outreachy
open science
Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2022 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and bioconductor in general.
Jan 22, 2023
Beryl Kanali, Atuhurira Kirabo

Bioconductor Hacktoberfest 2022 review and looking ahead to 2023

events
Last October, Bioconductor joined Hacktoberfest and got great community contributions there. Here, we describe its success and notify the community we plan to participate in 2023.
Jan 20, 2023
Maria Doyle, Kozo Nishida, Kevin Rue-Albrecht

Recommended Awesome Lists for Bioconductor Community: Oct 2022 Edition

education
This blog post consolidates web links to different Awesome Lists that may be useful to those just starting up in bioinformatics and those experienced in the field.
Oct 22, 2022
Jeremy Selva

 

Bioconductor becomes a Carpentries member organization

education
Carpentries
Starting from August 1, 2022, Bioconductor will be a member of The Carpentries. Among other things, the membership enables us to allow 15 individuals to follow the Carpentries’ Instructor Training program and become certified Carpentries Instructors.
Jul 12, 2022
Charlotte Soneson, Laurent Gatto, Toby Hodges, Jenny Drnevich, Robert Castelo, Susan Holmes

Join the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board

BioC
CAB
Each year the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board (CAB) puts out a public call for new board members. This post tells you more about what the CAB does and how you can apply to become a member.
Feb 1, 2022
Kozo Nishida, Matt Ritchie

metaRbolomics hackathon to improve interoperability of metabolomics-related R packages

Metabolomics
Mass Spectrometry
Hackathon
Open Science
The 3rd metaRbolomics hackathon took place as a in-person workshop in Wittenberg (Germany) in November 2021. The aim was to improve interoperability of metabolomics/mass spectrometry-related R packages, combine development efforts and identify gaps and needs in current available functionality. It was a fun event with a lot of discussions and coding as well as socializing and networking.
Jan 18, 2022
Johannes Rainer

Celebrating 20 years of Bioconductor

events
The Bioconductor project started in 2001 and, during the Bioconductor conference 2021, celebrated 20 years of collaborative work for the development of open source and open development software.”.
Jan 14, 2022
Kevin Rue-Albrecht

BioC Asia 2021 は言語障壁の緩和に挑戦し、多様性を実現した

Japanese
BioC
Diversity
BioC Asia 2021 の運営委員会は Zoom や YouTube を用いて「英語のリアルタイムキャプションの追加」 「英語キーノートスピーチの日本語翻訳キャプションの追加」「英語、日本語、中国語の3カ国語での並行ワークショップ」を行い、 カンファレンスの多言語対応を実現しました。
Jan 12, 2022
西田 孝三

BioC Asia 2021 challenged to overcoming language barriers and respected diversity

BioC
Diversity
BioC Asia 2021 organizing committee used Zoom and YouTube to “add real-time English captions”, “add Japanese translation captions for English keynote”, and “run 3 parallel workshops: English, Japanese, and Mandarin”.
Dec 9, 2021
Kozo Nishida
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