# nf-core/newsletter, October 2024

1 blog post, 6 pipeline releases, 8 upcoming events.

[View on the nf-core website](https://nf-co.re/newsletter/2024/10)

## Blog posts

- [Migration from Biocontainers to Seqera Containers: Part 1](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/seqera-containers-part-1) — What Seqera Containers is and why we want to move to it.
  _17 Sept 2024 · by ewels, edmundmiller_

## Pipeline releases

- [nf-core/fastquorum](https://nf-co.re/fastquorum) v1.0.1 _(11 Sept 2024)_
- [nf-core/funcscan](https://nf-co.re/funcscan) v2.0.0 _(5 Sept 2024)_
- [nf-core/isoseq](https://nf-co.re/isoseq) v2.0.0 _(5 Sept 2024)_
- [nf-core/raredisease](https://nf-co.re/raredisease) v2.2.0 _(13 Sept 2024)_
- [nf-core/rnaseq](https://nf-co.re/rnaseq) v3.15.0, v3.15.1 _(16 Sept 2024)_
- [nf-core/sarek](https://nf-co.re/sarek) v3.4.4 _(3 Sept 2024)_

## Upcoming events

- **Bytesize** [Bytesize: Animating subway maps](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_animating_subway_map) — 1 Oct 2024
  <p>Maxime Garcia, Seqera</p>

- **Bytesize** [Bytesize: Making Pipeline level tests with nf-test](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_pipeline_level_tests_with_nftest) — 8 Oct 2024
  <p>Maxime Garcia, Seqera</p>

- **Talk** [#regulatory - monthly meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/sig_regulatory_october) — 15 Oct 2024
  <p>Round table in regulatory led by Alex Peltzer (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH)</p>

- **Talk** [#animal-genomics: October Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/sig_animalgenomics_oct) — 16 Oct 2024
  <p>Roderic Guigó (CRG, Spain)</p>

- **Hackathon** [Hackathon - October 2024 (Barcelona)](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/hackathon-barcelona) — 28 Oct 2024 – 30 Oct 2024
  <p>An in-person hackathon held in Barcelona</p>

- **Bytesize** [Bytesize: Special Interest Group - Animal Genomics](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_sig_animalgenomics) — 12 Nov 2024
  <p>Cedric Notredame (CRG, Barcelona), Björn Langer (CRG, Barcelona), Francesca Bernini (UNIMI, Milan), Jose Espinosa-Carrasco (CRG, Barcelona)</p>

- **Talk** [#regulatory - monthly meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/sig_regulatory_november) — 12 Nov 2024
  <p>Round table in regulatory led by Alex Peltzer (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH)</p>

- **Talk** [CANCELLED: #animal-genomics: November Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/sig_animalgenomics_nov) — 20 Nov 2024
  <p><del>Harris Lewin (Arizona State University, USA)</del></p>


## In case you missed it

### Recent events

- [Bytesize: Special Interest Group meta-omics](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_sig_meta_omics) — 3 Sept 2024 (Bytesize)
- [#regulatory: Where do we stand and where do we want to go?](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/sig_regulatory_september) — 9 Sept 2024 (Talk)
- [Bytesize: Excalidraw](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bytesize_excalidraw) — 17 Sept 2024 (Bytesize)
- [#animal-genomics: September Meeting](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/sig_animalgenomics_sept) — 18 Sept 2024 (Talk)
- [Bioimage Analysis Workshop - September 2024 (Tübingen)](https://nf-co.re/events/2024/bioimage_workshop) — 26 Sept 2024 – 27 Sept 2024 (Hackathon)

### Earlier blog posts

- [Maintainers Minutes: September 2024](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/maintainers-minutes-2024-08-30) — 30 Aug 2024
- [Maintainers Minutes: August 2024](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/maintainers-minutes-2024-07-26) — 14 Aug 2024
- [A gentle introduction to nf-core/reportho](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/reportho_intro) — 18 Jul 2024
- [nf-core/callingcards - first release!](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/callingcards_intro) — 17 Jul 2024
- [Maintainers Minutes: July 2024](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/maintainers-minutes-2024-07-02) — 3 Jul 2024
- [Faster nf-core website builds](https://nf-co.re/blog/2024/new-website-structure) — 3 Jul 2024

## New pipelines & proposals

### New pipeline repositories

- [nf-core/fastqrepair](https://nf-co.re/fastqrepair) — A pipeline that can be used to recover corrupted FASTQ.gz files, drop or fix uncompliant reads, remove unpaired reads, and settles reads that became disordered
- [nf-core/genomeqc](https://nf-co.re/genomeqc) — Compare the quality of multiple genomes, along with their annotations.
- [nf-core/pacvar](https://nf-co.re/pacvar) — Longread PacBio sequencing processing for WGS and PureTarget

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