nf-core/newsletter, April 2026

Blog posts

• Making nf-core/configs strict syntax compliant — 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 v1.0.0 — QC pipeline that monitors mass spectrometer performance in ribonucleoside analysis

Pipeline releases

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

Upcoming events

• Talk #animal-genomics: April Meeting — 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 — 21 Apr 2026
  nf-core, modules, claude, code
• Hackathon Hackathon - April 2026 (Boston) — 28 Apr 2026 – 29 Apr 2026
  An in-person hackathon held in Boston
• Talk #animal-genomics: May Meeting — 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 — 3 Mar 2026 (Talk )
• Mass Spec Proteomics SIG: Kickoff Meeting — 5 Mar 2026 (Talk )
• Hackathon - March 2026 — 11 Mar 2026 – 13 Mar 2026 (Hackathon )
• Bytesize: nf-core/hackathon March 2026 Wrap-up — 17 Mar 2026 (Talk )
• #animal-genomics: March Meeting — 18 Mar 2026 (Talk )

Earlier blog posts

• From pytest to nf-test: a journey toward native testing — 20 Feb 2026
• nf-core and AI — 14 Jan 2026
• Running nf-core pipelines on Arm — 12 Jan 2026

New pipelines & proposals

New pipeline repositories

• nf-core/genephylomodeler (in development) — A bioinformatics pipeline that fits evolutionary models and detects natural selection from multiple sequence alignments

Pipeline proposals

From nf-core/proposals.

• nf-core/ncrnannotator — Accepted (# 125)
• nf-core/genephylomodeller — Accepted (# 123)
• nf-core/msproteomics — Accepted (# 121)
• nf-core/fetchdata — Accepted (# 116)
• nf-core/vina — Accepted (# 109)
• nf-core/nanocirc — New (# 128)
• nf-core/shallowseq — New (# 127)
• nf-core/transporter — New (# 126)
• nf-core/immunodesign — New (# 124)

Other proposals

• New special interest group: Benchmarking — Accepted (# 122)
• New RFC: Allow ext.suffix as an official ext. value allowed for use in nf-core/modules — Accepted (# 69)