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| Date | Title | Tease |
|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | LangChain Text Splitters, the Missing Link when Processing Long Texts with LLMs | Circumvent context window limits of LLMs by splitting long texts into manageable chunks |
| 1 October 2026 | AI4SOCIAL+ Online Kickoff | AI4SOCIAL+ project kickoff meeting on 1st October 2026 online |
| 24 September 2026 | BioFAIR Data to Discovery Single-Cell Training and CoFest | Highlights from a single-cell event in the UK and future opportunities to get involved with SPOC and BioFAIR. |
| 22 September 2026 | microGalaxy Hackathon for Tool Development | Join the microGalaxy community on October 14th to update outdated metagenomics tools in the IUC repository! |
| 16 September 2026 | New Publication "Bioimage management and analysis in Galaxy: Tools, workflows, training, and community practices" | The Image Analysis in Galaxy community is happy to share the first dedicated publication on bioimage data management, analysis, and community practices in Galaxy |
| 16 September 2026 | Connecting CKAN and Galaxy: from data repositories to analysis and back | Browse CKAN datasets in Galaxy, analyse using tools and workflows, and export results to CKAN. |
| 9 September 2026 | Last Few Spots left - Galaxy Tool Development Workshop, Registration Closes 14 September | Only a handful of spots remain for the 2nd Galaxy Tool Development Workshop in Freiburg (7-9 October 2026). Registration closes on 14 September, and remote participation is available. |
| 8 September 2026 | Galaxy at the International IUSSI Congress 2026 — Exploring termite gut microbiome recovery | At IUSSI 2026 in Freiburg, Mina Hojat Ansari presented how reproducible, multi-layer metagenomic analysis in Galaxy helps investigate termite gut microbiome recovery after molting. |
| 8 September 2026 | Galaxy Training Academy 2026: A Global Week of Learning | Galaxy Training Academy 2026 brought together more than 2,200 registrations from 108 countries for a free, global week of self-paced Galaxy training across 11 tracks. |
| 8 September 2026 | Galaxy Newsletter September 2026 | Explore Galaxy 26.1 and Galaxy Labs, welcome UseGalaxy Canada, see how Galaxy Australia is simplifying data movement, discover Galaxy-powered wildlife ecology and public-health workflows, and find jobs, training, and events across the community. |
| 7 September 2026 | Updated Terms of Service for the European Galaxy Server (2026) | We have published a comprehensively revised set of Terms of Service for usegalaxy.eu and all its sub-sites. Please review the new Terms and agree to them to continue using the Service. |
| 7 August 2026 | The European Galaxy Project Website Is Now Fully Served by the Galaxy Hub | After ten years on a Jekyll-on-GitHub setup, galaxyproject.eu is now completely powered by the Galaxy Hub — a fast, metadata-driven home that any Galaxy community can reuse. |
| 2 August 2026 | Galaxy 26.1 is here! | Galaxy 26.1 introduces Galaxy Notebooks, context-aware GalaxyAI agents, Model Context Protocol support, bulk dataset storage migration, a modern workflow extraction interface, favorite and recent tools, and clearer workflow execution monitoring. Explore the user release notes. |
| 28 July 2026 | Galaxy at the ELIXIR-Italy Microbiome Summer School in Bari | Galaxy and FAIRyMAGs training at the ELIXIR-Italy summer school on targeted and shotgun metagenomics in Bari, Italy |
| 24 July 2026 | Galaxy for Accessible, Reproducible, and Collaborative Data Analyses: 2026 Update | The latest Galaxy update in Nucleic Acids Research highlights major advances in the platform’s interface, workflows, data management, visualizations, infrastructure, and global community. |
| 22 July 2026 | Galaxy Newsletter July 2026 | From GCC2026 and GTA2026 highlights to a major new Galaxy publication, Galaxy 26.0, and community-curated research environments, explore what the Galaxy community accomplished in the second quarter of 2026. |
| 20 July 2026 | GCC2026 CollaborationFest (CoFest!): Outcomes and Highlights | A summary of the outcomes and highlights from the CoFest held after the 2026 Galaxy Community Conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France. |
| 13 July 2026 | Microbiological Data Analysis at the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 supported by the microGalaxy SIG | Microbiological Data Analysis at Galaxy Community Conference 2026, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 9 July 2026 | GCC2026 Fishbowl Discussion: AI, Galaxy, and Trustworthy Scientific Software | At GCC2026, the Galaxy community came together to ask how AI can support scientific discovery while preserving the trust, transparency, reproducibility, and human-centered values that define Galaxy. |
| 6 July 2026 | GCC2026 Recap: Science, Collaboration, and Community in Clermont-Ferrand | A look back at the 2026 Galaxy Community Conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France. |
| 1 July 2026 | Machine learning SIG at the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 | Machine learning at Galaxy Community Conference 2026, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| 1 July 2026 | Our journey in GCC2026 Clermont-Ferrand | A GCC2026 roadtrip, from Concarneau to Clermont |
| 16 June 2026 | GalaxyLabs paper is live! A love letter from the Galaxy Single-cell and sPatial Omics Community | GalaxyLabs is an international effort to make sustainable, researcher-focused and community-curated interfaces across Galaxy, from Genomics to Single-cell analyses. |
| 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 | 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. |
| 8 June 2026 | The Galaxy Europe team at the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2026 | The Galaxy Europe team has participated in the ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2026 in Lyon, France. |
| 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 | 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. |