nf-core Newsletter - February 2026

Blog posts

nf-core and AI — Core team statement on AI within nf-core
14 Jan 2026 · by jfy133
Running nf-core pipelines on Arm — How community collaboration is making bioinformatics more efficient
12 Jan 2026 · by ewels, dslarm

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

Talk Bytesize: Best Practices to not hurt your filesystem — 3 Feb 2026
Adam Talbot, Seqera
Talk #animal-genomics: February Meeting — 18 Feb 2026
Theodore Kalbfleisch (Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, USA)
Talk Bytesize: First pipeline release — 24 Feb 2026
Maxime U Garcia, National Genomics Infrastructure
Talk Bytesize: nf-core/seqinspector 1.0.0 — 3 Mar 2026
Franziska Bonath, National Genomics Infrastructure
Talk Mass Spec Proteomics SIG: Kickoff Meeting — 5 Mar 2026
Initial meeting to discuss quantms integration, module development, and legacy pipelines.
Hackathon 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 — 17 Mar 2026
core team, nf-core
Talk #animal-genomics: March Meeting — 18 Mar 2026
Junjian Wang (North Carolina State University, USA)

nf-core/genomicrelatedness (in development) — Bioinformatics pipeline for estimating genetic relatedness from low-coverage whole-genome sequencing (sWGS) data
nf-core/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.