A huge thank you to everyone who helped make #EuroBioC2026 possible — our sponsors, organisers, speakers, workshop instructors, volunteers, and attendees.
Over three days, the Bioconductor community came together to share new research, showcase software, exchange ideas, build collaborations, and celebrate an incredible milestone: 25 years of Bioconductor.
Read the full conference recap here 👉 https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-06-19-EuroBioc2026-recap/
See you in Basel for #EuroBioC2027!
🧬 Upcoming R/Bioconductor Package Development Course
Bioconductor, in collaboration with Physalia Courses, is offering an upcoming online course on Developing R/Bioconductor Packages for Genomics.
📅 6-10 July 2026
The course combines lectures, demonstrations, guided exercises, office hours, and community discussions to help participants build the skills needed to develop and maintain their own R/Bioconductor packages.
👉 Learn more and register: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/r-packages/
📢 Missed the BioC2026 early bird deadline? There's still time to join the Bioconductor community in Seattle this August.
Regular registration is now open through July 27, 2026, and late-breaking poster submissions remain open through June 30, 2026.
🎟️ Register: https://bioc2026.bioconductor.org/registration/
📌 Submit a late-breaking poster: https://openreview.net/group?id=bioconductor.org/BioC/2026/Conference
"BiocExecute: Make package functions or workflows executable from the command line" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/ywsmq_v1
"R2G2 integrates R with Galaxy, and Rapp (r-lib,2024) lets an R script run as if it were a command-line program. What is missing is a path from a Bioconductor package to such tools that follows the project’s own packaging conventions. BiocExecute fills that gap" https://index.biohackrxiv.org/2026/06/19/ywsmq.html
It's been a little over a week since EuroBioC2026 wrapped up in Turku, Finland.
The talks ended. The posters came down. But the conversations continue.
Here's a look back at a few faces and moments from the conference.
🧬 Earlier this year, members of the Bioconductor community met on San Servolo Island, Italy, for a three-day hackathon on spatial omics and bioimaging. They tackled challenges in spatial data infrastructure, interoperability, image analysis, visualisation, differential expression, and foundation models, producing new code, documentation, and a collaborative preprint to bolster spatial omics support across Bioconductor.
📖 Read more: https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-06-17-venice/
🧬 Upcoming Bioconductor Developers' Forum
📅 June 25, 2026
🕓 4 PM UTC
🎤 Szabolcs Horvát
igraph: complex network analysis across multiple programming languages
As Bioconductor continues to explore interoperability and accessibility, this session will highlight how the igraph project has successfully maintained multiple user-facing interfaces while supporting a common computational backend.
👉 Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gIOto0duQ_y3kU7qEzQeOg
"Eurobioc2026 BiocContainer Report" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/acxky_v1
"Containers enhance reproducibility and provide an easy and convenient way to share the setups used to run an analysis. As part of the EuroBioc 2026 Hackathon, this working group got together with the aim of offering user-friendly and straightforward ways to create containers given the desired R packages, data and scripts, and importantly, coupled to the used Bioconductor release. This resulted in an R package called SimpleBiocContainer which offers a minimal set of functions to do this." https://index.biohackrxiv.org/2026/06/15/acxky.html
📢 Introducing the Bioconductor Package Maintainer Validation System
Bioconductor package maintenance doesn't end at submission. Keeping maintainer contact information up to date is essential for supporting users, responding to build issues, and ensuring packages remain actively maintained.
Bioconductor has launched a new maintainer validation system to help keep maintainer information up to date and support active package stewardship.
📖 Read more: https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-06-16-maintainer-validation/
a new R package, PinPath, allows mapping experimental data onto pathways, using just R: https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.PinPath https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/PinPath.html
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