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RTrainer: The Application for Self-Training in the R Language

RTrainer is an innovative educational tool designed to develop essential bioinformatics analysis skills, with a focus on the R programming language for the scientific community. Whether you are a biologist, student, or bioinformatician, this application serves as a suitable self-training tool to build core bioinformatics analysis skills.

Developed in 2023 by Denis Puthier from the TAGC in Marseille (associated team of the French Institute of Bioinformatics - IFB), RTrainer has been available since March 2025 for self-training, thanks to a collaboration with the IFB-core teams.

MassiveFold – The Tool to Unlock the Full Potential of AlphaFold

Structural biology has reached a new milestone with AlphaFold, the protein structure prediction tool developed by DeepMind, for which Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024. Originally designed for predicting individual protein structures, AlphaFold was later extended to model protein assemblies, though these predictions require extensive sampling, previously limited by high computation and storage costs. MassiveFold, an optimized version of AlphaFold, overcomes these barriers by enabling advanced sampling capabilities. Developed with support from the IFB and in collaboration with various computing centers, MassiveFold opens new horizons for protein structure modeling. For more information, refer to the article published in Nature Computational Science.