# nf-core/newsletter, March 2025

2 blog posts, 15 pipeline releases, 7 upcoming events.

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## Blog posts

- [Maintainers Minutes: February 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-02-28) — Keeping you informed of the latest maintainers discussions
  _28 Feb 2025 · by jfy133_
- [Integrating ontologies into nf-core modules](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/modules-ontology) — Getting onto the right path
  _24 Feb 2025 · by mirpedrol, mashehu_

## New pipeline first releases 🎉

These pipelines just had their very first release.

- [nf-core/fastqrepair](https://nf-co.re/fastqrepair) v1.0.0 — A pipeline that can be used to recover corrupted FASTQ.gz files, drop or fix uncompliant reads, remove unpaired reads, and settles reads that became disordered
- [nf-core/pacvar](https://nf-co.re/pacvar) vv1.0.0 — Longread PacBio sequencing processing for WGS and PureTarget
- [nf-core/proteinfamilies](https://nf-co.re/proteinfamilies) v1.0.0 — Generation and updating of protein families
- [nf-core/variantbenchmarking](https://nf-co.re/variantbenchmarking) v1.0.0 — Pipeline to evaluate and validate the accuracy of variant calling methods in genomic research

## Pipeline releases

- [nf-core/demultiplex](https://nf-co.re/demultiplex) v1.6.0 _(19 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/mag](https://nf-co.re/mag) v3.3.1 _(13 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/metatdenovo](https://nf-co.re/metatdenovo) v1.1.0 _(26 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/multiplesequencealign](https://nf-co.re/multiplesequencealign) v1.1.0 _(21 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/pairgenomealign](https://nf-co.re/pairgenomealign) v2.0.0 _(5 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/pangenome](https://nf-co.re/pangenome) v1.1.3 _(9 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/phyloplace](https://nf-co.re/phyloplace) v2.0.0 _(21 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/raredisease](https://nf-co.re/raredisease) v2.3.0, v2.4.0 _(24 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/riboseq](https://nf-co.re/riboseq) v1.1.0 _(3 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/sarek](https://nf-co.re/sarek) v3.5.1 _(18 Feb 2025)_
- [nf-core/viralmetagenome](https://nf-co.re/viralmetagenome) v0.1.2 _(28 Feb 2025)_

## Upcoming events

- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/multiplesequencealign](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_multiplesequencealign) — 4 Mar 2025
  Luisa Santus, PhD candidate at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
- **Training** [Nextflow Training Week - March 2025](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/training-foundational-march) — 10 Mar 2025 – 14 Mar 2025
  Join the new `Hello Nextflow` training and more online
- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: March Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_mar) — 19 Mar 2025
  Christopher Tuggle (Iowa State University, USA)
- **Hackathon** [Hackathon - March 2025 (Online / Distributed)](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/hackathon-march-2025) — 24 Mar 2025 – 26 Mar 2025
  A virtual hackathon with local sites to develop nf-core together
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/variantbenchmarking](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_nfcore_variantbenchmarking) — 1 Apr 2025
  Kübra Narci, German Human Genome-Penome Archieve, DKFZ Heidelberg
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/proteinfamilies](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_nfcore_proteinfamilies) — 8 Apr 2025
  Evangelos Karatzas, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge
- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: April Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_apr) — 16 Apr 2025
  Damir Baranasic (MRC, London Institute of Medical Sciences, UK)

## In case you missed it

### Recent events

- [Bytesize: nf-core/smrnaseq](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_smrnaseq) — 11 Feb 2025 (Talk)
- [#animal-genomics: February Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_feb) — 19 Feb 2025 (Talk)
- [Bytesize: data science operations (DSO)](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_dso) — 25 Feb 2025 (Talk)

### Earlier blog posts

- [Maintainers Minutes: January 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-01-31) — 31 Jan 2025
- [nf-core/tools - 3.1.0](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/tools-3_1_0) — 10 Dec 2024

## New pipelines & proposals

### New pipeline repositories

- [nf-core/mitodetect](https://nf-co.re/mitodetect) _(in development)_ — A-Z analysis of mitochondrial NGS data
- [nf-core/ribomsqc](https://nf-co.re/ribomsqc) — QC pipeline that monitors mass spectrometer performance in ribonucleoside analysis
- [nf-core/sopa](https://nf-co.re/sopa) _(in development)_ — Nextflow version of Sopa - spatial omics pipeline and analysis

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