Robert Castelo

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Associate Professor at UPF Barcelona. Biostatistics, machine learning, genetics & genomics. R/BioC developer. Innate curiosity. Views my own. He/him, vi/vim.

⏳ One week left to register!
Join us at EuroBioC2025 in Barcelona and the Bioconductor Carpentry Workshops for hands-on learning, community building, and cutting-edge bioinformatics.

🗓️ Registration closes August 28 — don’t miss out!
🔗 https://eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/

#EuroBioC2025 #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics #Carpentries #Barcelona

European Bioconductor Conference 2025 – EuroBioC2025

The European Bioconductor Conference (EuroBioC2025) will take place on September 17th to 19th, 2025, in Barcelona, Spain. EuroBioC2025 will bring together the Bioconductor community to showcase the latest cutting-edge developments on the Bioconductor software packages, as well as on broader emerging technologies impacting computational biology.

📣 Late-breaking poster call for #EuroBioC2025 is now open!

Submit by July 11 to present your work in Barcelona this September.
🔗 https://forms.gle/ewTGdKzB2xyEg58f8
📅 Notifications by July 15

#Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

EuroBioC2025 late-breaking poster abstract submission

Please fill the form below before the end of Friday July 11th, 2025, to submit an abstract for a poster to be considered for presentation at EuroBioC2025 in Barcelona on September 17-19, 2025 (https://eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org). Notification of acceptance will be sent on July 15th, but please contact us at [email protected] if you need an earlier notification for your own funding or visa applications. Please note that submission of an abstract does not constitute registration for the conference - see https://eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/registration.html for how to register. If you have questions, reach out at [email protected].

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📣 EuroBioC2025 Registration is Open! 🎉

Join us in Barcelona, 17–19 September 2025 for the European Bioconductor Conference!
Developers, researchers, and educators working with Bioconductor and open-source bioinformatics tools are all welcome.

💡 Talks, workshops, keynotes, and community discussions await.
🔗 Register: https://eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/registration.html

Hope to see you there!
#Bioinformatics #Bioconductor #EuroBioC2025 #OpenScience

registration – EuroBioC2025

⏳ Time’s running out! Submit your abstract for #EuroBioC2025 by 24 April.
Join us this Sept in Barcelona to share your research, meet the #Bioconductor community & explore all things #Bioinformatics + #RStats.

👉 https://eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/submissions.html

submissions – European Bioconductor Conference 2025

Liberating the future!

I'm happy to share that major progress has been made on the #Futureverse roadmap. Already the next release comes with new, exciting, frequently asked features, and more are ready to ship in following release.

Release candidate #1 of the 'future' package is now available on R-universe;

install.packages("future", repos = c("https://futureverse.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Please give it a try🙏 As usual, these updates should be 100% backward.

#rstats #parallel

R packages by futureverse

🚀 GBCC2025 Update! 🚀

Abstract deadline extended to April 8, 2025! 🎉

For ~10 min TALKS: Register first (no deposit needed now). Submission guidelines: https://gbcc2025.netlify.app/abstracts/submission_guidelines/

For ~1.5 hr TRAINING DEMOS: Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/i34Ag8SHMtBAmpPh7

Join us at the first-ever Bioconductor and Galaxy conference in New York! 🌟

#GBCC2025

Submission Guidelines

Tenim novetats 🎉

👉🏼 Softcatalà presenta la traducció completa de GIMP 3.0 al català!

Tens més informació a la notícia 👇🏻

https://www.softcatala.org/noticies/softcatala-presenta-traduccio-completa-gimp-3-0-al-catala/

Softcatalà presenta la traducció completa de GIMP 3.0 al català -

Ja està disponible la traducció al català de la versió 3.0 de GIMP, gràcies a un equip que ha treballat voluntàriament durant anys.

Softcatalà

There are 109 packages in danger of being archived and 2543 which depend on one in danger of being archived.
The first package could be archived on 2025-03-09 but it could take 47 days till all are archived (if not fixed in time).
2291 affected packages are from CRAN and potentially 361 are from Bioconductor.
Of all them, 1 affected by 4, 20 affected by 3, 157 affected by 2 package's deadlines.

Support the maintainers of the #rstats packages you depend!

🎨 Just a quick reminder that the EuroBioC2025 Sticker Contest is still open! The deadline is March 10, 2025, so there's still time to get your designs in. Don't miss out on the chance to have your design featured at the conference and win free registration! ✨

Submit your design here: https://buff.ly/42JiCLN

Also, abstracts are open for submission, so be sure to get those in too!

#EuroBioC2025 #RStats #Bioinformatics #StickerContest

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity.

We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry.

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PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog

Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…

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