The Galactic Blog
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5 Nov 2024 |
Marisa Loach
from the Galactic Blog | How I Learned to Wrap Tools from the Galaxy EU Team An ELIXIR Staff Exchange to expand the single cell tools on Galaxy |
29 Jul 2024 |
Markus Konkol
from 52°North Blog | Design rationale for using the Galaxy platform |
14 Jun 2024 |
Ross Lazarus, Helena Rasche, Frederik Coppens, Michelle Savage
from the Galactic Blog | Code Of Conduct Committee Annual Update
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21 Aug 2023 |
Natalie Whitaker
from the Galactic Blog | Paper highlight: Scalable, accessible, and reproducible reference genome assembly and evaluation in Galaxy (Larivière et al. 2023) We are excited to share a new paper in preprint that shares the latest genome assembly pipeline used by the Vertebrate Genome Project in Galaxy! " |
14 Aug 2023 |
Natalie Whitaker
from the Galactic Blog | GCC2023 Meeting Report That's a wrap! Catch up on all the highlights from GCC2023 here! |
14 Jul 2023 |
Anton Nekrutenko
from the Galactic Blog | Fighting Galactic Misconceptions (FGB): Misconception 1 Is Galaxy only useful for genome scientists? Absolutely Not! |
5 Dec 2022 |
Assunta DeSanto, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Ross Lazarus, Helena Rasche, Frederik Coppens, Michelle Savage
from the Galactic Blog | Code Of Conduct Committee Annual Update
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18 Aug 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Mental Health Assessment Tools Tenth blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
18 Aug 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Why we should support the underrepresented communities Ninth blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
15 Aug 2022 |
Kranti Konganti
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy + Nextflow at CFSAN, FDA. How Nextflow pipelines are integrated into Galaxy project at CFSAN, FDA. |
5 Aug 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Well-being and Mental Health Project Survey Result Highlights Eighth blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
25 Jul 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Well-being and Mental Health Project GCC2022 BoF Session Highlights Seventh blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
25 Jul 2022 |
Soumya Jha, Anne Fouilloux, Jean Iaquinta
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy climate to support local/regional initiatives and concrete actions to fight climate change Second blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Galaxy Climate |
15 Jul 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Creating a Mentally Healthy Work Environment Sixth blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
14 Jul 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | The Importance of Mental Health and its Risk Factors Fifth blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
13 Jul 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Common Challenges Faced in Open-source Part II Fourth blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
6 Jul 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Common Problems Faced in Open-source Part I Third blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
4 Jul 2022 |
Soumya Jha, Anne Fouilloux, Jean Iaquinta
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy climate to support local/regional initiatives and concrete actions to fight climate change First blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Galaxy Climate |
1 Jul 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Defining Key Concepts in Galaxy Well-being and Mental Health Project Second blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
29 Jun 2022 |
Melkeberhan Berhanu Degefa, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Anne Fouilloux
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Well-being and Mental Health Project First blog post presenting the Outreachy project on Mental Health |
22 Jun 2022 |
Melke Berhan, Shivani Sangwan, Soumya Jha, Anne Fouilloux, Beatriz Serrano-Solano
from the Galactic Blog | Welcome to our 3 new Outreachy interns! From Galaxy dev, Galaxy Climate to Galaxy Well-being and mental health. |
16 Jun 2022 |
Enis Afgan & Subina Mehta
from the Galactic Blog | A guide to GCC2022 Where Galaxy meets in 2022! |
20 Apr 2022 |
Alessandro Culotti
from Terra Blog | The redesigned interface provides access to interactive analysis applications supported by Cloud Environments, i.e. Jupyter Notebook, RStudio and Galaxy |
6 Apr 2022 |
Beatriz Serrano-Solano
from the Galactic Blog | We are launching the new Galaxy Community Calls A broad forum for global community updates and discussions |
1 Mar 2022 | Chinonye Mildred Egenti, Rahmot Afolabi, Bérénice Batut, Assunta DeSanto |
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27 Jan 2022 |
Assunta DeSanto, Beatriz Serrano-Solano, John Chilton, Dannon Baker
from the Galactic Blog | Goodbye Dev Roundtables working groups do it better |
27 Jan 2022 |
Assunta DeSanto
from the Galactic Blog | Meet the Community: Assunta DeSanto
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18 Jan 2022 |
Björn Grüning, Cristóbal Gallardo, Jennifer Hillman-Jackson, Ross Lazarus
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy as a sharing infrastructure and how this enables efficient user support
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16 Jan 2022 |
Ross Lazarus
from the Galactic Blog | Commoditising open computing in Galaxy Transparent, reproducible open computing as a public good |
16 Jan 2022 |
Ross Lazarus
from the Galactic Blog | A user's guide to the virtual, automated, computing Lab Notebook in Galaxy. How a "Redo" button enables transparent and open scientific computing. |
14 Jan 2022 |
Ross Lazarus
from the Galactic Blog | A contributor's guide to the Galaxy How to make Galaxy even better |
13 Jan 2022 | Reginald Johnson | A personal Galaxy instance on the cloud with a fixed monthly cost. |
12 Jan 2022 | Maria Pia |
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17 Dec 2021 |
Anton Nekrutenko
from the Galactic Blog | DaveC: The founder of Galaxy Community Thank you DaveC |
12 Dec 2021 | Chinonye Mildred Egenti |
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12 Dec 2021 | Chinonye Mildred Egenti |
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11 Dec 2021 | Maria Pia |
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10 Dec 2021 | Rahmot Afolabi |
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10 Dec 2021 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Thanks, for absolutely everything. 11 years exploring the Galaxy |
30 Nov 2021 |
Yvan Le Bras
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy interactive tools and R Shiny apps Some dreams, mixing synchronous and asynchronous workflows in Galaxy and adding high degree of interactivity into Galaxy thanks to R Shiny are ready to be reality |
25 Nov 2021 |
Cristóbal Gallardo
from UseGalaxy.eu | Galaxy Help, together with the different Gitter channels, is one of the primary meeting places where Galaxy users turn to searching for answers. |
13 Nov 2021 |
Anne Fouilloux
from UseGalaxy.eu | Tools in Climate Science: Linking Observations with Modelling |
2 Nov 2021 | Chinonye Mildred |
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2 Nov 2021 | Maria Pia |
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2 Nov 2021 | Rahmot Afolabi |
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2 Nov 2021 | Maria Pia |
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15 Oct 2021 |
Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | Sunsetting the CloudLaunch service There are now better alternatives to using Galaxy on the cloud |
10 Oct 2021 |
Peter van Heusden
from SASBi News | The switch to online bioinformatics training forced by the COVID-19 pandemic has opened spaces for collaboration in ways that were previously limited by geography. |
21 Sep 2021 |
Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | Human Genetics working group T2 update Expanding Galaxy’s ability to analyze protected human data |
14 Sep 2021 |
Nick Stoler, Dannon Baker
from the Galactic Blog | The New Galaxy Community Hub
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2 Sep 2021 |
Luke Sargent
from the Galactic Blog | Cancer informatics working group T2 update CI-WG Updates from the tertile |
28 Aug 2021 |
Peter van Heusden
from Low Order Magic | Using a specific venv for running on the cluster that is configured on the cluster |
20 Aug 2021 |
Peter van Heusden
from SANBI News | Highlights of GCC2021 included talks on Galaxy tools for analysing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and a number of talks on the use of Galaxy in a pathogen genomics and public health context. |
7 Aug 2021 | Christina Hall | Galaxy Australia’s new high memory servers have delivered an impressive leap forward for scientists with large datasets and computationally-intensive analyses. |
9 Jun 2021 |
Meaghan McConlogue
from Terra Blog | Galaxy is now available in all flavors of the Terra platform. |
7 May 2021 |
Alex Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Keith Suderman, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Helm chart v4.0 From dev to testing to production on the same stack. |
24 Mar 2021 |
Nolan Woods
from Innovate Invent | "a useful bag of tricks and tools" |
15 Mar 2021 |
Saskia Hiltemann, Helena Rasche
from Gallantries Blog | A report on the largest Galaxy event ever. |
1 Mar 2021 |
Enis Afgan
from GalaxyWorks Blog | With hundreds of options available to use Galaxy, how do you pick the right one for you? |
22 Feb 2021 |
Wolfgang Maier, Marius Van Den Beek, Björn Grüning, Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, Anton Nekrutenko, and the Galaxy Team in US, EU, and AU
from Virological | Global framework for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis: Application to intrahost variation Parts 1 and 2 |
8 Feb 2021 |
Dan Blankenberg
from GalaxyWorks Blog |
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3 Feb 2021 |
Kelli Shute, Enis Afgan
from Trusted CI Blog | On the path toward Galaxy security compliance |
1 Feb 2021 |
Helena Rasche
from Gallantries Blog | Lessons learned |
29 Jan 2021 |
Geraldine Van der Auwera
from Terra Blog | Your own personal Galaxy |
26 Nov 2020 |
Anne Fouilloux
from EOSC-Nordic | Galaxy as a common platform |
20 Nov 2020 |
Peter Bickerton
from Earlham Institute |
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28 Aug 2020 |
Peter van Heusden
from SASBi News | Bioinformatics online |
26 Aug 2020 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy: the first 10,000 pubs The Galaxy Publication Library hits a milestone |
13 Aug 2020 |
BCC2020 Organizers
from BCC2020 |
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27 Jul 2020 |
Chris Armit
from GIGABlog | Meetings In the Time of Coronavirus: Conferences go Viral |
16 Jul 2020 |
Nuwan Goonasekera, Alexandru Mahmoud, Mohamad Safadieh, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | GVL 5.0-beta4: data browser, project-level isolation, and Galaxy 20.05 The GVL workbench now integrated through data |
29 Jun 2020 | Emily Lescak | How BCC2020 went online |
22 Jun 2020 |
Alexandru Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | Multi-tenant, multi-project GVL with Galaxy, Jupyter, Terminal, and RStudio Complete analysis on one platform, including training and collaboration |
24 Apr 2020 |
Alexandru Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Luke Sargent, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | GVL 5.0-beta2 release 30% faster and single sign-on, ohh my |
15 Apr 2020 |
Michael Thompson
from OBF | Everything about Galaxy is Ansible! |
14 Feb 2020 |
Enis Afgan, Nuwan Goonasekera, Alexandru Mahmoud, Alex Ostrovsky, the GVL and Galaxy teams
from the Galactic Blog | With Love: The All-new GVL 5.0 (beta) Now more reliable, with better security, and with new features. |
7 Jan 2020 |
Yvan Le Bras, Simon Bénateau
from the Galactic Blog | Crowdsourcing citizen science data on usegalaxy.eu Galaxy for Ecology, mixing Ecology research, Citizen Science and Massively Multi Online Science |
18 Dec 2019 | Stephan Beck | Galaxy is particularly useful for anyone seeking training in multi-omics analyses and creating of workflows. |
14 Nov 2019 | Ben Orsburn | The arguments are building up for why you need this |
29 Jul 2019 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Looking for Galaxy (info), in all the right places Which are dangerously close to the wrong places... |
23 Jul 2019 |
Dave Clements, Martin Cech, Mo Heydarian, Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Nicola Soranzo
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy on Twitter: An Update What's happening, right now |
8 Jul 2019 |
Erin Becker, Francois Michonneau
from the Galactic Blog | What goes into a major lesson update? |
30 May 2019 |
Enis Afgan and Nuwan Goonasekera
from the Galactic Blog | Enabling cloud bursting for Galaxy Expand your compute horizons. |
15 Apr 2019 |
Enis Afgan and Vahid Jalili
from the Galactic Blog | Building up support for the Google Cloud Platform in Galaxy Get on the cloud, Google Cloud! |
2 Apr 2019 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | A sneak peak at GCC2019 New scheduling format this year |
28 Feb 2019 |
Mo Heydarian
from the Galactic Blog | Interview with Nate Coraor: CVMFS & Galaxy Find out about Galaxy's favorite filesystem |
15 Jan 2019 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Genome annotation with Prokka", selected by Simon Gladman
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27 Dec 2018 |
Ben Orsburn
from the Galactic Blog | QuanTP is a great new gap bridging tool! |
12 Dec 2018 |
Martin Čech
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Simon Gladman
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27 Nov 2018 |
Ming Chen
from the Galactic Blog | A web application for developing Galaxy tools through web interfaces |
15 Nov 2018 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Reference-based RNA-Seq data analysis", selected by Saskia Hiltemann
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1 Nov 2018 |
Martin Čech
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Saskia Hiltemann
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15 Oct 2018 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Galaxy 101", selected by Yvan Le Bras
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1 Oct 2018 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Yvan Le Bras Citizen Science and Galaxy for Ecology |
28 Sep 2018 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: Maria Doyle selected "From peaks to genes"
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17 Sep 2018 |
Christina Hall
from EMBL-ABR News | Hybrid training delivers online participatory training to far-reaching venues, with Galaxy of course |
5 Sep 2018 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Carrie Ganote
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30 Aug 2018 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Seeing "Error cloning repository: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"? |
1 Aug 2018 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Pablo Moreno
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15 Jun 2018 |
Bérénice Batut, on behalf of the Galaxy Training Network
from the Galactic Blog | A fruitful year for the Galaxy Training material
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1 Feb 2018 | Arun Decano |
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8 Jan 2018 |
Ming Chen
from the Galactic Blog | Using R Markdown as a framework to develop Galaxy tools |
12 Dec 2017 |
Tomas Klingström
from the Galactic Blog | Galaksio: a Galaxy user interface focused on running prepared workflows Make your workflows more accessible to non-bioinformaticians |
11 Dec 2017 | Tomas Klingström | Training using the Galaksio interface |
1 Dec 2017 | Vimalkumar Velayudhan | Setup a DigitalOcean droplet with Galaxy, Apache and PostgreSQL |
8 Nov 2017 |
B. Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Docker 17.09 CVMFS and Singularity support |
16 Oct 2017 |
Anton Nekrutenko
from the Galactic Blog | Small genome assembly in Galaxy Why not to do assembly on-line? |
16 Oct 2017 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy: the first 5,000 pubs The Galaxy Publication Library hits a milestone |
10 Oct 2017 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | SciPy and scikit-learn integration into Galaxy
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6 Oct 2017 |
Helena Rasche
from the Galactic Blog | Public Galaxy Server Dashboard a new view of the Universe |
5 Oct 2017 |
Frederik Coppens, Gildas Le Corguillé, Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | ELIXIR establishes a new official Community for Galaxy
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4 Oct 2017 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Welcome to the Galactic Blog It needs you |
20 Sep 2017 | Ben Orsburn | where all the Galaxy tools for Affiniity purification/enrichment MS experiments are located in a form where we all can use them |
1 Aug 2017 |
Jeffrey Perkel
from Naturejobs Blog | Working with data programmatically inside Galaxy |
31 Jul 2017 |
Hollydawn Murry
from F1000 Research blog | a run down of this year's Galaxy Community Conference |
25 Jul 2017 | Simon Gladman | UK, UK, UK, and France |
29 May 2017 |
Paul Gordon
from ACHRI Bioinformatics | How to configure Apache to authenticate a user against an LDAP server that requires authentication to search |
28 Apr 2017 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | Galaxy Series, Volumes 1-12 |
25 Apr 2017 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Secure communication between a Galaxy instance and its users |
17 Mar 2017 | Nathan Bott | Focus on the data |
10 Mar 2017 | Rafa Hernández | A step by step guide |
2 Nov 2016 |
Chase Miller
from iobio Blog | bam.iobio and vcf.iobio can now be launched directly from galaxy using your data already stored there. |
20 Sep 2016 |
Björn Grüning
from (GIGA)Blog | For deployment issues, we need a package manager that is operating system and programming language agnostic... |
24 Aug 2016 | Greg Von Kuster | Galaxy CSG flavor |
13 Jul 2016 | Igor Makunin | A howto guide on getting data from one instance to another. |
20 Jun 2016 | Marius van den Beek | Instructions on how to do this ... |
3 Mar 2016 | Alex Kanterakis | A basic guide on how to setup Galaxy with TORQUE in an EC2 instance |
14 Dec 2015 |
Nicole Nogoy
from (GIGA)Blog | a summary of our recent technical developments |
8 Dec 2015 |
Mikael Loaec, Olivier Inizan
from the Galactic Blog | Testing the connexion of Galaxy to iRODS object store. |
21 Oct 2015 |
Steve Cassidy
from Steve Cassidy's blog | How to generate dataset collections from a Galaxy tool |
9 Oct 2015 |
Peter van Heusden
from low order magic | Explanation of Galaxy's tool dependency definitions that specify how to source the actual packages that implement the tool’s commands |
30 Jul 2015 |
Hans-Rudolf Hotz
from the Galactic Blog | Moving from MySQL to PostgreSQL It is pretty simple, though you might hit some obstacles depending on how old your MySQL server is and how much you have manually interfered with the database. |
12 Jul 2015 | Benedikt Rauscher, Benjamen White | A simple step by step guide on how to use Sebastian Wilzbach’s application, biojs2galaxy. |
2 Jun 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Outline how I've done this for our local Galaxy set up, which uses nginx. |
22 Apr 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Using GALAXY_SLOTS with multithreaded Galaxy tools |
18 Mar 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | A HOWTO for installing ANNOVAR in Galaxy |
17 Mar 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Astronomy, phones, sports teams, chocolate, cars. Not. |
28 Feb 2015 |
Pierre Lindenbaum
from YOKOFAKUN | Example showing how to install a Java program as a tool in a Galaxy instance |
28 Feb 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | How to implement ProFTPd using PBKFD2 protocol for encryption |
27 Nov 2014 |
Nicole Nogoy
from (GIGA)Blog | GigaGalaxy and “bring your own” data parties |
1 Sep 2014 |
Tracey Timms-Wilson
from The Bio-Linux at the NERC Environmental 'Omics Synthesis Centre series | Want to run Galaxy under Bio-Linux 8? |
10 Jun 2014 |
William Holtz
from the Galactic Blog | Setting up a secure tool shed with remote authentication Requires some tweaks in order to allow Galaxy to communicate with the Tool Shed |
24 Apr 2014 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | Tackling irreproducible research |
28 Mar 2014 |
Olivier Inizan, Mikael Loaec
from Puppet Forge | A puppet module for a very basic galaxy server (use for development) |
6 Feb 2014 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | GigaScience moves toward more interactive articles |
27 Jan 2014 |
Tim Booth
from the Galactic Blog | Problem with logout when using LDAP for authentication with remoteUser enabled Make changes to 4 Galaxy configuration files |
5 Dec 2013 | Contributors | Documents best practices for tool integration |
27 Oct 2013 | Sarah Maman, Nabihoudine Ibou | How to set up IGV-Galaxy integration in Apache and Galaxy, including adding custom genomes |
23 Oct 2013 | Contributors | Process for sharing workflows, including wrapping necessary tools |
12 Oct 2013 | Thomas Cokelaer | A HOWTO on linking BioServices and Galaxy |
9 Jul 2013 |
John Chilton
from CloudBioLinux Repo | How to build CloudMan instances from scratch using the CloudBioLinux deployer |
9 Jul 2013 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | eye-wateringly expensive alcohol, brown cheese and reproducible research at the Galaxy Community Conference in Oslo |
6 May 2013 |
Samuel Lampa
from Samuel's Tech Blog | XML wrapper and R code |
10 Apr 2013 | Contributors | Documents creation of virtual machine ISO image |
21 Feb 2013 |
Brad Chapman
from CloudBioLinux Repo | Python script in CloudBioLinux |
25 Jan 2013 | Quang Trinh | A HOWTO guide |
1 Jan 2013 |
Kostas Karasavvas
from RubyGems.org | The workflow-to-galaxy Ruby Gem |