# nf-core/newsletter, January 2024

3 pipeline releases, 7 upcoming events.

[View on the nf-core website](https://nf-co.re/newsletter/2024/01)

## Pipeline releases

- [nf-core/crisprseq](https://nf-co.re/crisprseq) v2.1.1 _(18 Dec 2023)_
- [nf-core/demultiplex](https://nf-co.re/demultiplex) v1.4.0 _(15 Dec 2023)_
- [nf-core/metaboigniter](https://nf-co.re/metaboigniter) v2.0.0 _(19 Dec 2023)_

## Upcoming events

- **Talk** [Bytesize: Nextflow Executors](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_nextflow_executors) — 16 Jan 2024
  Maxime Garcia, Seqera
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core blog](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_blog) — 23 Jan 2024
  Matthias Hörtenhuber, SciLifeLab Data Centre
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core hackathons](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_hackathon) — 30 Jan 2024
  Friederike Hanssen, QBiC
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/differentialabundance](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_differentialabundance) — 6 Feb 2024
  Jonathan Manning, Seqera
- **Talk** [Bytesize: Contributing to Nextflow](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_nextflow_dev) — 13 Feb 2024
  Phil Ewels, Seqera
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core Special Interest Groups](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_workgroups_intro) — 20 Feb 2024
  Phil Ewels, Seqera
- **Talk** [Bytesize: Removing the 'lib/' directory from the template](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/removing_lib_from_template) — 27 Feb 2024
  Sayonara lib! Harshil Patel, Seqera

## In case you missed it

### Recent events

- [Nextflow Symposium 2023](https://nf-co.re/events/2023/symposium_wgc_dec23) — 4 Dec 2023 (Talk)
- [Bytesize: git concepts](https://nf-co.re/events/2023/bytesize_git_concepts) — 12 Dec 2023 (Talk)

## New pipelines & proposals

### New pipeline repositories

- [nf-core/references](https://nf-co.re/references) — nf-core/references is a bioinformatics pipeline that build references, for multiple use cases
- [nf-core/variantbenchmarking](https://nf-co.re/variantbenchmarking) — Pipeline to evaluate and validate the accuracy of variant calling methods in genomic research

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