4 blog posts, 9 pipeline releases, 2 upcoming events.

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nf-core newsletter

1st May 2026

Blog posts

Welcoming new members to the nf-core core team
A growing community, a stronger core
29 Apr 2026 · by joseespinosa
nf-core/tools - 4.0.0
~Friends~ Linters don't lie
28 Apr 2026 · by mashehu
Maintainers Minutes: January - April 2026
Keeping you informed of the latest maintainers discussions
27 Apr 2026 · by LouisLeNezet
Introducing nf-core docs version 2
Announcing the new nf-core docs: rebuilt, restructured, and shipped
10 Apr 2026 · by christopher-hakkaart, jfy133

New pipeline first releases! 🎉

These pipelines just had their very first release.

nf-core/drop v1.0.0
Pipeline to find aberrant events in RNA-Seq data, useful for diagnosis of rare disorders
nf-core/lsmquant v1.0.0
A pipeline for processing and analysis of light-sheet microscopy images.
nf-core/variantprioritization v1.0.0
Bioinformatics analysis pipeline for the functional annotation and translation of somatic SNVs/InDels and copy number abberations for precision cancer medicine using Personal Cancer Genome Reporter (PCGR). The pipeline offers germline SNVs/INDELS intepretation and annotation using Cancer Predisposition Sequencing Reporter (CPSR).

Pipeline releases

nf-core/ampliseq
v2.17.0 15 Apr 2026
nf-core/createtaxdb
v3.0.0 30 Apr 2026
nf-core/demultiplex
v1.7.1 17 Apr 2026
nf-core/rnaseq
v3.24.0 v3.25.0 24 Apr 2026
nf-core/taxprofiler
v2.0.0 15 Apr 2026

Upcoming events

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)
Talk #animal-genomics: June Meeting 17 Jun 2026
Miguel Pérez-Enciso (Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), UAB campus, Spain)

In case you missed it

Hackathon - April 2026 (Boston)
28 Apr 2026 – 29 Apr 2026 Hackathon

New pipelines & proposals

New pipeline repositories

nf-core/epigenomesegmentation In Development
An nf-core pipeline for epigenome segmentation using EpiSegMix/Meth — a hidden Markov model with flexible read count distributions and state duration modeling for histone, open chromatin, and methylation signals.

Pipeline proposals

From nf-core/proposals

nf-core/bacmodel Accepted #132
nf-core/dartseq Accepted #130
nf-core/detectseq Accepted #129
nf-core/nanosomatic Accepted #111
nf-core/scalpel Accepted #96
dragen New #137

Other proposals

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