After knitr v1.52 went to CRAN on 2026-09-06, I did something I don’t do often but have been hoping to do: I sat down and worked through the GitHub issue tracker more or less top to bottom. Over...

My wrap-up of the Bioconductor 3.23 release

My wrap-up of the Bioconductor 3.23 release

Frameworks, formats and Interoperability

The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

An R package for working with LaminDB instances. Contribute to laminlabs/laminr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Links and resources from my time on Posit’s Data Science Lab in January 2026

Lead the next wave of biomedical discovery

Getting the best of both worlds.

Chronic exposure to glucocorticoids during brain development leads to priming of the inhibitory neuron lineages in organoids.

We're pleased to announce the next Scverse Hackathon will take place in the Owkin offices in Paris from 17/03/2025 9am to 19/03/2025 1:30pm. This hackathon is a joint initiative between the scverse c...

Data science blog on topics that don’t get published.

Single-cell Assay for Transposase Accessible Chromatin with sequencing (scATAC-seq) has become a widely used method for investigating chromatin accessibility at single-cell resolution. However, the re...

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A human neural organoid cell atlas integrating 36 single-cell transcriptomic datasets shows cell types and states and estimates transcriptomic similarity between primary and organoid counterparts, sho...

Single-cell transcriptomics has revolutionized our understanding of cellular heterogeneity and drug perturbation effects. However, its high cost and the vast chemical space of potential drugs...