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| Date | Title | Tease |
|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2026 | A repository for both humans and AI agents | Lessons from building galaxy-tool-refactor: keep one set of runnable scripts and let CI, git hooks, a Makefile, and AI-agent skills all call them, so people and agents share one workflow that can't drift apart. |
| 9 June 2026 | Building Bridges Between Deep Mutational Scanning and Galaxy: My ELIXIR Staff Exchange in Australia | How an ELIXIR Staff Exchange connected the mutational scanning community, Galaxy Australia, and Galaxy Europe through FAIR infrastructure, training, and collaboration. |
| 9 June 2026 | Eight LLMs, one RNA-seq dataset: what we learned controlling Galaxy from Orbit | We pointed eight frontier LLMs at the same Candida auris RNA-seq study and asked each to reanalyze it on Galaxy through Orbit. Six reproduced the headline result — and the failures taught us more than the successes. |
| 4 June 2026 | Galaxy at the BioFAIR Showcase - Why Make Workflows FAIR? | Insights from a workshop on workflow FAIRification |
| 2 June 2026 | Galaxy Europe at the DARIAH Annual Event | Explording Reproducible Workflows in the Arts and Humanities |
| 19 May 2026 | From Pipettes to Code: How I Participated in a Pangenome Initiative for Galaxy as a Molecular Medicine Student | My journey wrapping HAL, PAF, and TAF tools for the European Galaxy server. |
| 14 May 2026 | Reflections on the journey behind the Galaxy Labs Engine paper | Dr Gareth Price reflects on the Galaxy Labs Engine paper, recently published in GigaScience, and the GCC conversations and BioHackathons that grew it from an idea into a globally deployed tool. |
| 11 May 2026 | Galaxy Training Academy 2026 Meet the Experts | New for Galaxy Training Academy 2026: Meet the Experts |
| 9 May 2026 | My visit to Freiburg Galaxy Project team | This is a small tale about my 3 months stay in Freiburg joining Galaxy Project team. |
| 28 April 2026 | Galaxy and the FAIR principles | Galaxy’s FAIR Pages: A New Resource for FAIR Research |
| 28 April 2026 | Accurate Biomedical Classification with TabPFN on Galaxy | Leverage next-generation TabPFN models on the European Galaxy server to classify complex biomedical datasets with high accuracy. |
| 20 April 2026 | How using collections saved my data | Why you should ask help from the Galaxy experts |
| 13 April 2026 | Galaxy 26.0 is here! | Galaxy 26.0 brings major new capabilities to the Galaxy experience, from built-in AI assistance and interactive visualization to smarter workflow completion and easier troubleshooting. Explore the user release notes. |
| 13 April 2026 | Announcing a shared Hugging Face data table for Galaxy | Galaxy is standardising a shared data table for pre-downloaded Hugging Face models so tool authors and admins can coordinate without duplicated effort. |
| 1 April 2026 | BioNT Brings Galaxy Training to German, Spanish, and Italian Learners | We are thrilled to announce that the BioNT project (Bio Network for Training) has contributed a significant set of human-curated translated Galaxy training materials to the GTN, now live and available to learners worldwide! |
| 1 April 2026 | Galaxy Metagenome Training Course 2026 | Outcomes of the 2026 Metagenome Training Course |
| 29 March 2026 | Galactic Weekly: Week 13, 2026 | Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories |
| 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 |
| 20 March 2026 | AI for wildlife study, when Ecology and Imaging are benefiting from Galaxy ecosystem | Galaxy for Ecology, mixing Ecology research, Citizen Science and AI |
| 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. |