# nf-core/newsletter, February 2026

2 blog posts, 9 pipeline releases, 8 upcoming events.

[View on the nf-core website](https://nf-co.re/newsletter/2026/02)

## Blog posts

- [nf-core and AI](https://nf-co.re/blog/2026/statement-on-ai) — Core team statement on AI within nf-core
  _14 Jan 2026 · by jfy133_
- [Running nf-core pipelines on Arm](https://nf-co.re/blog/2026/arm-pipelines) — How community collaboration is making bioinformatics more efficient
  _12 Jan 2026 · by ewels, dslarm_

## Pipeline releases

- [nf-core/ampliseq](https://nf-co.re/ampliseq) v2.16.0, v2.16.1 _(23 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/demo](https://nf-co.re/demo) v1.1.0 _(30 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/drugresponseeval](https://nf-co.re/drugresponseeval) v1.2.0 _(20 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/mhcquant](https://nf-co.re/mhcquant) v3.1.0 _(7 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/nanostring](https://nf-co.re/nanostring) v1.3.2, v1.3.3 _(30 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/pairgenomealign](https://nf-co.re/pairgenomealign) v2.2.2 _(30 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/pixelator](https://nf-co.re/pixelator) v2.3.1 _(19 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/smrnaseq](https://nf-co.re/smrnaseq) v2.4.1 _(7 Jan 2026)_
- [nf-core/viralmetagenome](https://nf-co.re/viralmetagenome) v1.1.0 _(23 Jan 2026)_

## Upcoming events

- **Talk** [Bytesize: Best Practices to not hurt your filesystem](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_filesystem) — 3 Feb 2026
  Adam Talbot, Seqera
- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: February Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/sig_animalgenomics_feb) — 18 Feb 2026
  Theodore Kalbfleisch (Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, USA)
- **Talk** [Bytesize: First pipeline release](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_first_pipeline_release) — 24 Feb 2026
  Maxime U Garcia, National Genomics Infrastructure
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/seqinspector 1.0.0](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_seqinspector) — 3 Mar 2026
  Franziska Bonath, National Genomics Infrastructure
- **Talk** [Mass Spec Proteomics SIG: Kickoff Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/sig_massspec-proteomics_kickoff) — 5 Mar 2026
  Initial meeting to discuss quantms integration, module development, and legacy pipelines.
- **Hackathon** [Hackathon - March 2026](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/hackathon-march-2026) — 11 Mar 2026 – 13 Mar 2026
  A hybrid hackathon to develop nf-core together
- **Talk** [Bytesize: nf-core/hackathon March 2026 Wrap-up](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_hackathon-march-2026-wrapup) — 17 Mar 2026
  core team, nf-core
- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: March Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/sig_animalgenomics_mar) — 18 Mar 2026
  Junjian Wang (North Carolina State University, USA)

## In case you missed it

### Recent events

- [Bytesize: Migrating to workflow outputs](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_workflow_outputs) — 27 Jan 2026 (Talk)

### Earlier blog posts

- [Maintainers Minutes: November 2025](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/maintainers-minutes-2025-11-28) — 8 Dec 2025
- [The Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Special Interest Group](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/sig-massspec-proteomics-introduction) — 26 Nov 2025
- [nf-core/tools - 3.5.0](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/tools-3_5_0) — 19 Nov 2025
- [Topic: Topics](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/version_topics) — 19 Nov 2025
- [The nf-core roadmap for adopting the new Nextflow syntax](https://nf-co.re/blog/2025/nextflow_syntax_nf-core_roadmap) — 17 Nov 2025

## New pipelines & proposals

### New pipeline repositories

- [nf-core/genomicrelatedness](https://nf-co.re/genomicrelatedness) _(in development)_ — Bioinformatics pipeline for estimating genetic relatedness from low-coverage whole-genome sequencing (sWGS) data
- [nf-core/mspepid](https://nf-co.re/mspepid) _(in development)_ — This pipeline performs the peptide identification of MS2 spectra from a proteomics experiment. For this, different search algorithm and rescoring approaches can be selected.

### Pipeline proposals

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

- [nf-core/nanotax](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/104) — Accepted (#104)
- [nf-core/swgsrelate](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/92) — Accepted (#92)
- [nf-core/nanosomatic](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/111) — New (#111)
- [nf-core/scspatialmap](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/110) — New (#110)
- [nf-core/vina](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/109) — New (#109)

### Other proposals

- [New RFC: nf-core should have a policy about use of LLMs/AI](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/91) — Accepted (#91)
- [New RFC: Pipeline maturity model (Very Important Pipelines)](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/89) — Accepted (#89)

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