Hi all! I'm writing on behalf of the European Virus Bioinformatics Center about two events happening this year: • The International Virus Bioinformatics (ViBiom) Meeting, happening in Vilnius 🇱🇹 between 18-20th of May: https://evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibiom2026/ • A hybrid satellite ViBiom hackathon as the same location on the 17th of May: https://evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibiom2026/hackathon-satellite-event/ In particular, the hackathon is currently running a registration-of-interest form, with project proposals open. So if you're interested in collaborating with other bioinformaticians for a day to make virus bioinformatics tooling and pipelines even better, regardless if you will be at ViBiom in person or can only join online, please register your interest in the form in the link above (current project ideas include things like: contributing to VirJenDB, nf core making virus-related nf-core modules, nextflow converting a bash workflow to Nextflow, bioconda adding tools to bioconda - but we are accepting any other project ideas!).

Do you have any more information about the scientific program? 🙂

Thanks James!!

If anyone wants an extra team member to join online, I'm interested, feel free DM me

Thank you James! @Sarai It would be great to demonstrate or present new features of nf-core/viralrecon ((HIV drug resistance detection and Enterovirus typing) ) in this conference.

If anyone wants an extra team member to join online, I'm interested, feel free DM me

@Kurayi if you could register your interest regardless, the idea is to have some general projects anyone can contribute to (you don't have to state a specific project atm necessarily)

@James Fellows Yates Unfortunately, I won’t be able to join the conference since I will be on vacation during that period.

No!

How about building a HDV nextclade database

You're welcome to submit that as a project, if you have someone who could lead it 🙂

I will come to you with suggestions after discussing with the group

@James Fellows Yates Hybrid satellite event registration opens in April. Will there be a reminder post made then?

Yes 🙂