nf-core/newsletter, March 2026

Blog posts

• From pytest to nf-test: a journey toward native testing — nf-core/modules is now pytest free
  20 Feb 2026 · by sppearce, LouisLeNezet

  

New pipeline first releases 🎉

These pipelines just had their very first release.

• nf-core/proteinannotator v1.0.0 — Generation of sequence-level annotations for amino acid sequences
• nf-core/seqinspector v1.0.0 — Dedicated QC-only pipeline for sequencing data. The pipeline will run a (potentially large) set of QC tools and can output global and group specific Multiqc reports. The pipeline is targeting core facilities or research groups with larger sequencing throughput.

Pipeline releases

• nf-core/airrflow v5.0.0 (2 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/coproid v2.0.1 (17 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/createtaxdb v2.1.0 (10 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/hlatyping v2.2.0 (2 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/mag v5.4.0 (2 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/pathogensurveillance v1.1.0 (13 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/rnaseq v3.23.0 (27 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/rnavar v1.2.3 (10 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/sarek v3.8.0, v3.8.1 (12 Feb 2026)
• nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 (16 Feb 2026)

Upcoming events

• Bytesize Bytesize: nf-core/seqinspector 1.0.0 — 3 Mar 2026
  <p>Franziska Bonath, National Genomics Infrastructure</p>
• Talk Mass Spec Proteomics SIG: Kickoff Meeting — 5 Mar 2026
  <p>Initial meeting to discuss quantms integration, module development, and legacy pipelines.</p>
• Hackathon Hackathon - March 2026 — 11 Mar 2026 – 13 Mar 2026
  <p>A hybrid hackathon to develop nf-core together</p>
• Bytesize Bytesize: nf-core/hackathon March 2026 Wrap-up — 17 Mar 2026
  <p>core team, nf-core</p>
• Talk #animal-genomics: March Meeting — 18 Mar 2026
  <p>Junjian Wang (North Carolina State University, USA)</p>
• Talk #animal-genomics: April Meeting — 15 Apr 2026
  <p>David MacHugh (UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Ireland)</p>
• Bytesize Bytesize: Claude code plugin for nf-core modules — 21 Apr 2026
  <p>nf-core, modules, claude, code</p>
• Hackathon Hackathon - April 2026 (Boston) — 28 Apr 2026 – 29 Apr 2026
  <p>An in-person hackathon held in Boston</p>

In case you missed it

Recent events

• Bytesize: Best Practices to not hurt your filesystem — 3 Feb 2026 (Bytesize)
• #animal-genomics: February Meeting — 18 Feb 2026 (Talk)
• Bytesize: First pipeline release — 24 Feb 2026 (Bytesize)

Earlier blog posts

• nf-core and AI — 14 Jan 2026
• Running nf-core pipelines on Arm — 12 Jan 2026
• Maintainers Minutes: November 2025 — 8 Dec 2025

New pipelines & proposals

New pipeline repositories

• nf-core/ncrnannotator (in development) — nf-core pipeline for genome-level ncRNA annotation using Infernal
• nf-core/rnastructurome — a bioinformatics pipeline for analysing chemical high-throughput RNA structure-probing data

Pipeline proposals

From nf-core/proposals.

• nf-core/scspatialmap — Accepted (#110)
• nf-core/starcaller — Accepted (#107)
• nf-core/manifold — New (#117)
• nf-core/fetchdata — New (#116)
• nf-core/spatialflow — New (#115)

Other proposals

• New RFC: switching to topic channels for collecting versions — Accepted (#46)
• New RFC: this is a test — New (#119)