{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

I used Google Docs in a recent paper I led because I had collaborators across the US, UK, Jersey, Denmark, and Mauritius, and Google Docs is infinitely better than Word online / O365 at collaborative real-time editing. I’ve used Zotero for over a decade for reference management, and I used it for this paper.

Sponsoring BOSC Sponsorships from companies and non-profit organizations help to defray some of our costs and enable us to offer free registration for some conference participants. In 2024, thanks to our sponsors’ generous support, we were able to grant free registration to 15 participants, offer honoraria to keynote speakers, and cover other expenses. Interested in sponsoring BOSC? Please contact us at bosc@open-bio.org!

{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

I recently had a use case at work (a LiteStar app) where I needed to write to two linked tables (see below) in a transaction in our PostgreSQL database.

GPU Support in Bioconductor . GPU acceleration enables faster and more scalable analysis workflows, especially for tasks like deep learning, image processing, and large-scale genomics. Bioconductor is developing better support for maintainers authoring GPU-capable packages, including adding a new Nvidia GPU build machine, new release and devel (Nvidia) GPU software builds, GPU-aware containers, and a biocViews GPU term.

I recommend subscribing to Claus Wilke’s newsletter, Genes, Minds, Machines. I’ve linked to many of his essays in recent weeks. This one was a good read. Now that I’m back in academia and will be taking on Ph.D. students in my lab, this was good advice for me to read, as a future mentor.

It’s been a hot minute since last update on this lab note page. Things since last write up had been quite hectic, both in good and bad sense.

In cybersecurity, defenders have to get everything right. Cyber defense must patch every vulnerability, secure every endpoint, anticipate every exploit. Attackers, by contrast, only need to find one overlooked flaw. That imbalance, which has shaped decades of cyber conflict, has a biological analogue.

The most recent release of Positron (2025.10.0 build 199) has a few updates to the data explorer. Among other things, the actions you take in the data explorer like filtering and sorting can be converted to code: dplyr code for data frames, and SQL for DuckDB datasets.

Happy Friday, colleagues. It’s the end of the week and once again I’m going through my long list of idle browser tabs trying to catch up where I can. Lots of R and AI-related news this week. Subscribe now Strengthening nucleic acid biosecurity screening against generative protein design tools. This was a really cool paper published in Science this week from a team at Microsoft, Battelle, IDT, Twist, and others.