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.
The latest Galaxy update in Nucleic Acids Research highlights major advances in the platform’s interface, workflows, data management, visualizations, infrastructure, and global community.
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.
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.
GalaxyLabs is an international effort to make sustainable, researcher-focused and community-curated interfaces across Galaxy, from Genomics to Single-cell analyses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Galaxy is standardising a shared data table for pre-downloaded Hugging Face models so tool authors and admins can coordinate without duplicated effort.
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!
Galaxy's job cache improves performance, supports large training events, and advances environmental sustainability efforts within ELIXIR-STEERS by reducing redundant tool executions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Galaxy was in full force at Genome Informatics 2025, presenting cutting-edge work on scalable analysis, interactive workflows, and high-quality genome curation.