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| Date | Title | Tease |
|---|---|---|
| 24 March 2026 | Galaxy Newsletter March 2026 | From upcoming training and conferences to new publications and research highlights, the Galaxy community is off to a strong start in 2026! |
| 22 March 2026 | Galactic Weekly: Week 12, 2026 | Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories |
| 13 March 2026 | Using Galaxy webhooks to nudge users toward better tools | A small tool-form extension can mark legacy tools as deprecated, keep them available for reproducibility, and guide users toward faster and more efficient alternatives. |
| 11 March 2026 | MaterialVital-Digital Kickoff | MaterialVital-Digital (MVD) project kickoff meeting on 23rd February 2026 at VDI office in Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 5 March 2026 | UCSC staff visit: enhancing the Genome Browser - Galaxy integration | UCSC staff and Freiburg Galaxy team members had a first meeting on deepening collaboration and integration between the Genome Browser and Galaxy. |
| 4 March 2026 | Making Galaxy Greener with the Job Cache | Galaxy's job cache improves performance, supports large training events, and advances environmental sustainability efforts within ELIXIR-STEERS by reducing redundant tool executions |
| 1 March 2026 | Galactic Weekly: Week 9, 2026 | Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories |
| 27 February 2026 | Galaxy for Managing Workflows for the Next Generation of Compact Particle Accelerators | Researchers at STFC are developing vEPAC, a Galaxy-based end-to-end simulation framework for compact plasma accelerators, integrating laser modelling, plasma dynamics, and radiation transport into a unified computational workflow. |
| 24 February 2026 | Jetstream2 + Galaxy = 518 VGP assemblies | IU-led Jetstream2 cloud computing and the Galaxy platform power the Vertebrate Genomes Project to produce 272 near error-free genome assemblies across 271 species. |
| 22 February 2026 | Galactic Weekly: Week 8, 2026 | Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories |
| 19 February 2026 | Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They’re Wrong!) | We are thrilled to announce that 'Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They Are Wrong!)' has just been published in PLOS Computational Biology! This paper is the result of passionate discussions, collaborative debates, and a shared commitment to clarifying what Galaxy truly is—and what it can do. Whether you are a longtime Galaxy user or new to the platform, this paper will challenge assumptions and highlight Galaxy's versatility, scalability, and impact across disciplines. |
| 17 February 2026 | Bringing Climate, Ecology, and Earth System Science Together | Join Our Galaxy Earth-Climate-Ecology Room |
| 15 February 2026 | Galactic Weekly: Week 7, 2026 | Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories |
| 8 February 2026 | Galactic Weekly: Week 6, 2026 | Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories |
| 3 February 2026 | Connecting Humanities Data: Analyzing DaSCH data on Galaxy | We're excited to announce the collaboration between DaSCH, the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities, and the data analysis platform Galaxy. |
| 1 February 2026 | Galactic Weekly: Week 5, 2026 | Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories |
| 26 January 2026 | PAG33 Meeting Report | Galaxy returned to PAG33 with a community-focused workshop and its first-ever exhibition booth, highlighting recent advances in genomics, microbiome research, machine learning, and training. |
| 19 January 2026 | Integration of the Dataverse with Galaxy | Galaxy users can now connect to a Dataverse as a repository source, browse and search datasets directly from the Upload dialog, import files into histories and utilize them for scientific analyses. |
| 14 January 2026 | Introducing the Zip Explorer: Import individual files from ZIP archives | Preview the contents of local or remote ZIP archives, explore rich RO-Crate metadata, and import only the files you need directly from the Galaxy interface. |
| 12 January 2026 | Secure Your Tools with Galaxy’s New Credentials System | Galaxy 25.1 introduces a powerful new credentials system that lets tools securely access external APIs and services with encrypted secret storage and a streamlined user experience. |
| 8 January 2026 | GPU-accelerated genome mapper Parabricks FQ2BAM is now in Galaxy | NVIDIA Parabricks GPU-accelerated FQ2BAM is now available in Galaxy, bringing FASTQ-to-BAM alignment runtime to just a few minutes for 2.5 GB paired-end human whole-genome datasets. Its runtime is benchmarked against BWA-MEM2 and BWA across five runs and shows that mapping and QC metrics remain essentially identical to CPU-based alignment—while delivering a major speedup for Galaxy workflows. |
| 7 January 2026 | Integration of the Hugging Face Hub with Galaxy | Galaxy users can now browse the Hugging Face Hub as a repository source, import models straight into their histories, and feed them into tools. A step-by-step example shows how to pull models from the Hugging Face Hub into Galaxy and then using the existing DocLayout-YOLO tool for document layout segmentation. |
| 22 December 2025 | Galaxy Newsletter December 2025 | From celebrating 20 years of Galaxy to highlighting this year’s releases, training milestones, and research breakthroughs, this final newsletter of 2025 reflects on how far the community has come and looks ahead to what’s next. |
| 22 December 2025 | Galaxy 2025 Year in Review | 650K+ users, 186M+ jobs, ~15K commits across the ecosystem |
| 17 December 2025 | European BioHackathon 2025 – FAIR Image Analysis in Galaxy (Project 9) | |
| 17 December 2025 | The Galaxy 25.1 Release is Live! | Galaxy 25.1 brings a modern card-based history interface with advanced keyboard navigation, powerful Sample Sheets for complex workflow inputs, an enhanced Tool Discovery view with EDAM ontology integration, the new Galaxy Charts visualization framework featuring IGV.js genome browser, a dedicated Recent Exports & Downloads page, visual indicators for short-term storage expiration, secure tool credentials and authentication management, workflow editor search capabilities, a redesigned User Preferences interface, and much more! |
| 5 December 2025 | 4th BioHackathon Germany | |
| 2 December 2025 | DataPLANT Presented Cloud Architecture and ARC RO-Crates at the 1st Open Access Workshop held in Göttingen | Freiburg Galaxy team recently joined experts in Göttingen for the 1st Open Architecture Workshop to help shape the future technical foundations of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The team presented their cloud-oriented architecture and shared critical insights from the PLANT DataHUB regarding scalable storage and the "Software as a Service" approach. Read the full report to discover how collaborative efforts and common building blocks, such as ARC RO-crates, are driving the development of a robust and interoperable data ecosystem. |
| 2 December 2025 | Using Claude AI for Literature Searches | LLMs for literature search produce 'interesting' results: It is almost useful |
| 27 November 2025 | Training Infrastructure Feedback from Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Lucille Delisle | Teaching about galaxy and its workflow capabilities. |
| 21 November 2025 | Galaxy Powers FAIR Data: The BERD@NFDI B-Plan Use Case Shines at EOSC Symposium 2025 | At the EOSC Symposium 2025, a standout example was the BERD@NFDI B-Plan use case, a project demonstrating how the Galaxy Europe platform provides the analytical engine to transform complex, unstructured planning data into FAIR research assets for the entire European research community. |
| 20 November 2025 | Galaxy Tool Wrapping: Introducing the New Tool Developers SIG | Join the newly formed Tool Developers Special Interest Group (SIG) to collaborate on high-quality tool maintenance and standardize best practices across the Galaxy ecosystem. This initiative offers a dedicated space for mentorship, peer review, and community-driven development for developers of all experience levels. |
| 19 November 2025 | The Intergalactic Workflow Commission | Try Galaxy workflows with test data |
| 18 November 2025 | From Plume to Bloom: Data Terra and Galaxy illuminated extreme event observation at EOSC Symposium 2025 | Data Terra, the EOSC thematic node for the environment, demonstrated how the Galaxy platform accelerates environmental research through interoperable, FAIR data workflows within the EOSC Federation. From satellite plumes to ecosystem blooms. |
| 16 November 2025 | EOSC Node Poland at EOSC Symposium 2025: Galaxy and Pulsar in action | At the EOSC Symposium 2025, the Polish EOSC Node demonstrated a complete FAIR research workflow powered by Galaxy and PLGrid’s Pulsar integrating data analysis, execution, and provenance tracking through Onedata. The presentation video and full details are available via the [EOSC Node - Poland](https://eosc.pl/search/all_collection?q=EOSC%20Symposium%20Demo). |
| 13 November 2025 | One framework, one workflow, many communities: Freiburg Galaxy team at EOSC Symposium 2025 | Galaxy showed how 'one framework, one workflow, many communities' can run cross-disciplinary imaging analyses on the emerging EOSC Federation. Here is what we presented, with slides and video. |
| 13 November 2025 | Save the date: The Galaxy Training Academy 2026 will happen from May 18th to May 22th | 🎉 We are excited to share that the Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) 2026 will take place next year, starting on 18 May 2026! 🎉 |
| 10 November 2025 | Galaxy at Genome Informatics 2025 | Galaxy was in full force at Genome Informatics 2025, presenting cutting-edge work on scalable analysis, interactive workflows, and high-quality genome curation. |
| 6 November 2025 | European Galaxy Days 2025 recordings now online | European Galaxy Days 2025 might be over, but the talks aren’t. Explore our new playlist featuring highlights from EGD2025 |
| 4 November 2025 | Use name tags! | Tell apples from oranges using name tags |
| 30 October 2025 | Squish the bug! | Help us keep the Galaxy running by reporting bugs... |
| 28 October 2025 | Use Galaxy window manager! | See many things at once with Galaxy window manager |
| 23 October 2025 | Downloading data from NCBI SRA | How to download sequencing data from NCBI SRA? |
| 21 October 2025 | New Galaxy Tool: BiaPy – Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis in Galaxy | Perform advanced deep-learning-based workflows for image segmentation, classification, and reconstruction |
| 21 October 2025 | Exploring Microbial Dark Matter: Outcomes of the FAIRyMAGs Hackathon 2025 | Exploring Microbial Dark Matter: Outcomes of the FAIRyMAGs Hackathon 2025 |
| 21 October 2025 | Why collections? | Collections are one of the super-killer features of Galaxy! |
| 20 October 2025 | From Functional Nucleic Acids to Galaxy Training: Reflections on My Research Stay in Freiburg | Collaboration and innovation with the Galaxy Europe team |
| 20 October 2025 | GCC2026: The Galaxy Community is Heading to Clermont-Ferrand, France | Join us in June 2026 in the volcanic heart of Clermont-Ferrand for a week of collaboration, discovery, and open science. |
| 16 October 2025 | New Publication "Flexynesis: A deep learning toolkit for bulk multi-omics data integration for precision oncology and beyond" | Flexynesis: bridging multi-omics complexity with transparent AI for Cancer research and beyond |
| 16 October 2025 | Tabula Sapiens and Tabula Muris Senis Atlases Now Available in Galaxy | Comprehensive Single-Cell Reference Atlases Ready for Import |