nf-core/newsletter, July 2026

Blog posts

• Introducing the nf-core newsletter — Community news, pipeline releases and events, gathered once a month and emailed to you if you want it
  23 Jun 2026 · by ewels

  

New pipeline first releases 🎉

These pipelines just had their very first release.

• nf-core/createpanelrefs v1.0.0 — Generate Panel of Normals, models or other similar references from lots of samples
• nf-core/longraredisease v1.0.0 — Long read sequencing pipeline to identify variants in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders
• nf-core/rnadnavar v1.0.0 — Pipeline for RNA and DNA integrated analysis for somatic mutation detection
• nf-core/spatialaxe v1.0.0 — A bioinformatics best-practice processing and quality control pipeline for Xenium and Artera data

Pipeline releases

• nf-core/airrflow v5.1.0 (5 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/ampliseq v2.18.0 (17 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/demo v1.2.0 (24 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/differentialabundance v2.0.0 (23 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/drugresponseeval v1.2.1, v1.2.2 (23 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/fastquorum v2.0.0 (23 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/funcscan v4.0.0 (27 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/lsmquant v1.0.1, v1.0.2 (18 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/magmap v1.1.0 (1 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/metatdenovo v1.4.0 (26 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/pacvar v1.1.0 (24 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/pairgenomealign v2.3.0, v3.0.0, v3.0.1 (30 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/phyloplace v2.0.1 (16 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/pixelator v4.1.2 (4 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/proteinfamilies v2.4.0 (9 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/raredisease v3.1.0, v3.1.1 (24 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/rnafusion v4.1.3 (2 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/rnavar v1.3.0 (3 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/sarek v3.9.0 (30 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/scnanoseq v1.3.0 (26 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.1 (15 Jun 2026)
• nf-core/viralmetagenome v1.1.2 (3 Jun 2026)

Upcoming events

• Talk Bytesize: nf-meta — 14 Jul 2026
  Julian Flesch, QBiC
• Hackathon Hackathon - Agosto 2026 — 15 Aug 2026 – 16 Aug 2026
  Um hackathon presencial para contribuir com tarefas do nf-core e de seus projetos Nextflow
• Talk Bytesize: nf-core/longraredisease — 18 Aug 2026
  Nour Mahfel, University of Birmingham

In case you missed it

Recent events

• #animal-genomics: June Meeting — 17 Jun 2026 (Talk)
• Bytesize: nf-core newsletter — 23 Jun 2026 (Talk)
• Bytesize: Parameter typing in Nextflow strict syntax — 30 Jun 2026 (Talk)

Earlier blog posts

• Why parameters are strings all of a sudden — 26 May 2026
• Welcoming new members to the nf-core core team — 29 Apr 2026
• nf-core/tools - 4.0.0 — 28 Apr 2026
• Maintainers Minutes: January - April 2026 — 27 Apr 2026
• Introducing nf-core docs version 2 — 10 Apr 2026

New pipelines & proposals

New pipeline repositories

• nf-core/provenancereport (in development) — A simple provenance reporting pipeline

Pipeline proposals

From nf-core/proposals.

• nf-core/ont-long-reads-silva-db — Accepted (#146)
• nf-core/longreadproteogenomics — Accepted (#145)
• nf-core/midas — Accepted (#142)
• nf-core/PrimerCraft — New (#152)
• nf-core/snv-sort-and-fold — New (#148)
• nf-core/cl-exfoliome — New (#147)
• nf-core/cfmultiomics — New (#144)

Other proposals

• Migrate CI linting from pre-commit to prek — Accepted (#150)
• New RFC: Restructure pipeline resource labels into orthogonal CPU / memory / time axes — Accepted (#139)