Andrew Heiss: LLMs are bad and dangerous for learning how to code in this class (Data Visualization with R). The R Data Scientist November 4 2025 : R ecosystem updates, workflows & techniques, ggplot2 visuals, mapping with R, Shiny testing and QA, academic research. R Weekly 2025-W45 : Pledging my time, neon ghosts, Bioconductor release.
It is with great excitement that we release DeepForest 2.0! This is the first major release since the project took shape in its current form. The codebase has been updated to match modern machine learning workflows, including better command line tools, configurations and package management.
I’ve dabbled a bit with napari – the python-based image viewer – but never needed to use it seriously. I had a real use case so I thought I’d write up the process of how I got going with napari, in case it helps others.
WIRED recently published a special AI issue at wired.com/ai-issue . Here are all the stories from that issue.
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Event Fellowship program aims to promote diverse participation at events promoting open-source bioinformatics software development and open science practices in the biological research community.
The Bioconductor 3.22 release is now available. It includes 2,361 software packages, 435 experiment data packages, 926 annotation packages, 29 workflows, and 6 books. This cycle adds 59 new software packages, 6 new experiment data packages, 2 new annotation packages, and 1 new book, along with many updates across the existing ecosystem. A few themes stand out for people working in genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, and spatial omics.
MIT Technology Review : Biodiversity: A missing link in combating climate change Science : At futuristic meeting, AIs took the lead in producing and reviewing all the studies . Nextflow plugin registry: registry.nextflow.io . posit::conf(2025) Quarto workshop materials . At posit::conf(2025), Posit hosted two Quarto workshops: Branded Websites, Presentations,
Here we go again! I ran the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon 2025 and wanted to look at the race results. How can we do this using R? I couldn’t see an easy way to download the data, so I used R to scrape them.
Biopython 1.86 has been released and is available from our website and PyPI. This contains about nine months worth of updates, and is our first release with Python 3.14 support. See change-log in the news file (most of the changes are in Bio.Align and Bio.PDB). There have also been a few deprecations and removals of older code.
Bruno Rodrigues: A Polyglot Data Science Pipeline with rixpress . This post demonstrates the power of the rixpress R package to build, orchestrate, and execute a fully reproducible, polyglot data science pipeline.
{width=“70%; class=”zoomable”; height:200px;“} The European Bioconductor conference 2025 (EuroBioC2025) took place between September 17 and 19, 2025, and was hosted at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) in Barcelona by the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS-UPF)and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The Catalan capital boasts a rich culture, a lively atmosphere, and a blend