# nf-core/newsletter, April 2026

1 blog post, 8 pipeline releases, 4 upcoming events.

[View on the nf-core website](https://nf-co.re/newsletter/2026/04)

## Blog posts

- [Making nf-core/configs strict syntax compliant](https://nf-co.re/blog/2026/configs-strict-syntax) — Announcement and recommendations for updating nf-core/configs Nextflow strict syntax compliant
  _5 Mar 2026 · by nvnieuwk, jfy133_

## New pipeline first releases 🎉

These pipelines just had their very first release.

- [nf-core/ribomsqc](https://nf-co.re/ribomsqc) v1.0.0 — QC pipeline that monitors mass spectrometer performance in ribonucleoside analysis

## Pipeline releases

- [nf-core/mag](https://nf-co.re/mag) v5.4.1, v5.4.2 _(31 Mar 2026)_
- [nf-core/pixelator](https://nf-co.re/pixelator) v3.0.0, v3.0.1 _(9 Mar 2026)_
- [nf-core/proteinfold](https://nf-co.re/proteinfold) v2.0.0 _(27 Mar 2026)_
- [nf-core/rnafusion](https://nf-co.re/rnafusion) v4.1.0 _(18 Mar 2026)_
- [nf-core/scnanoseq](https://nf-co.re/scnanoseq) v1.2.2 _(9 Mar 2026)_
- [nf-core/seqinspector](https://nf-co.re/seqinspector) v1.0.1 _(2 Mar 2026)_
- [nf-core/viralmetagenome](https://nf-co.re/viralmetagenome) v1.1.1 _(31 Mar 2026)_

## Upcoming events

- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: April Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/sig_animalgenomics_apr) — 15 Apr 2026
  David MacHugh (UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Ireland)
- **Talk** [Bytesize: Claude code plugin for nf-core modules](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_modules_claude_plugin) — 21 Apr 2026
  nf-core, modules, claude, code
- **Hackathon** [Hackathon - April 2026 (Boston)](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/hackathon-boston) — 28 Apr 2026 – 29 Apr 2026
  An in-person hackathon held in Boston
- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: May Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/sig_animalgenomics_may) — 20 May 2026
  Wansheng Liu (Department of Animal Science, Center for Reproductive Biology and Health, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

## In case you missed it

### Recent events

- [Bytesize: nf-core/seqinspector 1.0.0](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_seqinspector) — 3 Mar 2026 (Talk)
- [Mass Spec Proteomics SIG: Kickoff Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/sig_massspec-proteomics_kickoff) — 5 Mar 2026 (Talk)
- [Hackathon - March 2026](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/hackathon-march-2026) — 11 Mar 2026 – 13 Mar 2026 (Hackathon)
- [Bytesize: nf-core/hackathon March 2026 Wrap-up](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/bytesize_hackathon-march-2026-wrapup) — 17 Mar 2026 (Talk)
- [#animal-genomics: March Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2026/sig_animalgenomics_mar) — 18 Mar 2026 (Talk)

### Earlier blog posts

- [From pytest to nf-test: a journey toward native testing](https://nf-co.re/blog/2026/modules-pytest-conversion) — 20 Feb 2026
- [nf-core and AI](https://nf-co.re/blog/2026/statement-on-ai) — 14 Jan 2026
- [Running nf-core pipelines on Arm](https://nf-co.re/blog/2026/arm-pipelines) — 12 Jan 2026

## New pipelines & proposals

### New pipeline repositories

- [nf-core/genephylomodeler](https://nf-co.re/genephylomodeler) _(in development)_ — A bioinformatics pipeline that fits evolutionary models and detects natural selection from multiple sequence alignments

### Pipeline proposals

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

- [nf-core/ncrnannotator](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/125) — Accepted (#125)
- [nf-core/genephylomodeller](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/123) — Accepted (#123)
- [nf-core/msproteomics](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/121) — Accepted (#121)
- [nf-core/fetchdata](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/116) — Accepted (#116)
- [nf-core/vina](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/109) — Accepted (#109)
- [nf-core/nanocirc](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/128) — New (#128)
- [nf-core/shallowseq](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/127) — New (#127)
- [nf-core/transporter](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/126) — New (#126)
- [nf-core/immunodesign](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/124) — New (#124)

### Other proposals

- [New special interest group: Benchmarking](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/122) — Accepted (#122)
- [New RFC: Allow ext.suffix as an official ext. value allowed for use in nf-core/modules](https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/69) — Accepted (#69)

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