# nf-core/newsletter, November 2025

2 blog posts, 11 pipeline releases, 6 upcoming events.

[View on the nf-core website](https://nf-co.re/newsletter/2025/11)

## Blog posts

- [nf-core core team retreat - September 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/retreat-2025) — Updates from the nf-core core team retreat.
  _20 Oct 2025 · by christopher-hakkaart_
- [nf-core/tools - 3.4.0](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/tools-3_4_0) — Container regex-it
  _16 Oct 2025 · by mashehu, mirpedrol_

## Pipeline releases

- [nf-core/ampliseq](https://nf-co.re/ampliseq) v2.15.0 _(6 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/bacass](https://nf-co.re/bacass) v2.5.0 _(17 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/demultiplex](https://nf-co.re/demultiplex) v1.7.0 _(28 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/funcscan](https://nf-co.re/funcscan) v3.0.0 _(4 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/mag](https://nf-co.re/mag) v5.1.0 _(27 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/molkart](https://nf-co.re/molkart) v1.2.0 _(27 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/proteinfamilies](https://nf-co.re/proteinfamilies) v2.0.0 _(17 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/reportho](https://nf-co.re/reportho) v1.1.0 _(21 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/sarek](https://nf-co.re/sarek) v3.6.0, v3.6.1 _(24 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/scrnaseq](https://nf-co.re/scrnaseq) v4.1.0 _(30 Oct 2025)_
- [nf-core/viralrecon](https://nf-co.re/viralrecon) v3.0.0 _(28 Oct 2025)_

## Upcoming events

- **Talk** [Bytesize: The Nextflow plugin registry](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_nf_plugin_registry) — 11 Nov 2025
  Phil Ewels, Seqera
- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_nov) — 19 Nov 2025
  Ekaterina Osipova (Harvard University)
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core pipeline template walk through V2](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_pipeline_walkthrough_v2) — 25 Nov 2025
  Júlia Mir Pedrol, CRG
- **Talk** [Bytesize: topic channels in nf-core/modules](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_topic_channels) — 2 Dec 2025
  Nicolas Vannieuwkerke, Center for Medical Genetics Ghent
- **Training** [Introduction to nf-core/airrflow](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/training_nf-core-airrflow_december) — 4 Dec 2025
  Introductory practical workshop to nf-core/airrflow
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/reportho](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_reportho) — 9 Dec 2025
  Igor Trujnara, Institute for Research in Biomedicine / Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona

## In case you missed it

### Recent events

- [#animal-genomics: October Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/sig_animalgenomics_oct) — 15 Oct 2025 (Talk)
- [Hackathon - October 2025 (Barcelona)](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/hackathon-barcelona) — 28 Oct 2025 – 29 Oct 2025 (Hackathon)
- [Bytesize: nf-core/mag v5.0](https://nf-co.re/events/2025/bytesize_mag_v5) — 28 Oct 2025 (Talk)

### Earlier blog posts

- [Running nf-core pipelines on Google Colab](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/nf-core-colab-guide) — 2 Sept 2025
- [Maintainers Minutes: August 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-08-29) — 31 Aug 2025
- [Why are my pipeline download tests failing?](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/refurbushing-the-pipeline-download) — 28 Aug 2025
- [Introducing nf-core Advisories](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/advisories) — 21 Aug 2025
- [Empowering bioinformatics communities with Nextflow and nf-core](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/paper-v2) — 6 Aug 2025

### Earlier advisories

- **HIGH** [Final family representative sequences are faulty in proteinfamilies pipeline 1.3.0](https://nf-co.re/advisories/proteinfamilies-incorrect-representatives) — 29 Sept 2025

## New pipelines & proposals

### New pipeline repositories

- [nf-core/seqsubmit](https://nf-co.re/seqsubmit) _(in development)_ — nf-core pipeline for data submission to ENA

### Pipeline proposals

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

- [nf-core/gwasgeneassociationtesting](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/90) — Accepted (#90)
- [nf-core/provacseq](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/82) — Accepted (#82)
- [nf-core/proteindesign](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/81) — Accepted (#81)
- [nf-core/mspepid](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/78) — Accepted (#78)
- [nf-core/scalpel](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/96) — New (#96)
- [nf-core/tandemrepeat](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/94) — New (#94)
- [nf-core/cosimflow](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/93) — New (#93)
- [nf-core/swgsrelate](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/92) — New (#92)

### Other proposals

- [New special interest group: ontologies](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/95) — New (#95)
- [New RFC: nf-core should have a policy about use of LLMs/AI](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/91) — New (#91)

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