# nf-core/newsletter, August 2025

2 blog posts, 5 pipeline releases, 3 upcoming events.

[View on the nf-core website](https://nf-co.re/newsletter/2025/08)

## Blog posts

- [Maintainers Minutes: July 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-07-31) — Keeping you informed of the latest maintainers discussions
  _31 Jul 2025 · by jfy133_
- [Meet the new meta.yml](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/modules-meta-yml) — Changes to the structure of the meta.yml file for nf-core modules
  _7 Jul 2025 · by mirpedrol_

## Pipeline releases

- [nf-core/drugresponseeval](https://nf-co.re/drugresponseeval) v1.1.0 _(3 Jul 2025)_
- [nf-core/genomeassembler](https://nf-co.re/genomeassembler) v1.1.0 _(21 Jul 2025)_
- [nf-core/methylseq](https://nf-co.re/methylseq) v4.0.0 _(4 Jul 2025)_
- [nf-core/pairgenomealign](https://nf-co.re/pairgenomealign) v2.2.0 _(10 Jul 2025)_
- [nf-core/variantbenchmarking](https://nf-co.re/variantbenchmarking) v1.3.0 _(31 Jul 2025)_

## Upcoming events

- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/createtaxdb](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_nfcore_createtaxdb) — 9 Sept 2025
  James Fellows Yates, Leibniz-HKI
- **Talk** [Bytesize: RFCs](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_rfcs) — 16 Sept 2025
  Phil Ewels, Seqera
- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: September Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_sep) — 17 Sept 2025
  Brenda Murdoch & Temitayo Olangunju (University of Idaho, USA)

## In case you missed it

### Recent events

- [Bytesize: nf-core test-datasets](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_nfcore_testdatasets) — 8 Jul 2025 (Talk)
- [#animal-genomics: July Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_jul) — 16 Jul 2025 (Talk)

### Earlier blog posts

- [nf-core/tools - 3.3](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/tools-3_3) — 3 Jun 2025
- [Maintainers Minutes: May 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-05-30) — 3 Jun 2025
- [nf-core supports now `main` branch names](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/switching-master-to-main) — 19 May 2025
- [Maintainers Minutes: April 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-04-24) — 2 May 2025

### Earlier advisories

- **HIGH** [.command.run Permission denied](https://nf-co.re/advisories/process-shell-configuration) — 15 May 2025

## New pipelines & proposals

### Pipeline proposals

From [nf-core/proposals](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues).

- [nf-core/alleleexpression](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/60) — Accepted (#60)
- [nf-core/longraredisease](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/64) — New (#64)
- [nf-core/geneanalyser](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/62) — New (#62)
- [microfunctprofiler](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/59) — New (#59)

### Other proposals

- [nf-core/pacsomatic: comprehensive somatic analysis using Pacbio HiFi read data](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/63) — New (#63)
- [New RFC: AI generated Code rules via AGENTS.md](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/61) — New (#61)

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