The Galactic Blog
Welcome to the Galactic Blog, a list of Galaxy related blog posts from community members. This blog contains longer form posts or pointers to longer form posts that are elsewhere on the web.
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| Date | Author(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 Mar 24 | Nolan Woods from Innovate Invent | Tips and tricks for Galaxy "a useful bag of tricks and tools" |
| 2021 Mar 15 | Saskia Hiltemann, Helena Rasche from Gallantries Blog | GTN Smörgåsbord: A Global Galaxy Course A report on the largest Galaxy event ever. |
| 2021 Mar 01 | Enis Afgan from GalaxyWorks Blog | How to choose the Galaxy that works for you With hundreds of options available to use Galaxy, how do you pick the right one for you? |
| 2021 Feb 22 | Wolfgang Maier, Marius Van Den Beek, Björn Grüning, Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, Anton Nekrutenko, and the Galaxy Team in US, EU, and AU from the Galactic Blog | Global framework for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis: Application to intrahost variation Parts 1 and 2 |
| 2021 Feb 08 | Dan Blankenberg from GalaxyWorks Blog | Change a datatype on multiple datasets |
| 2021 Feb 03 | Kelli Shute, Enis Afgan from Trusted CI Blog | Trusted CI and SGCI Collaborate to Secure the Galaxy Science Gateway Platform On the path toward Galaxy security compliance |
| 2021 Feb 01 | Helena Rasche from Gallantries Blog | Galaxy Admin Training with the Gallantries Lessons learned |
| 2021 Jan 30 | Wolfgang Maier from UseGalaxy.eu | New and updated CNV and Variant Calling tools on UseGalaxy.eu and in the Toolshed |
| 2021 Jan 29 | Geraldine Van der Auwera from Terra Blog | Try out Galaxy in Terra via AnVIL Your own personal Galaxy |
| 2021 Jan 22 | Wolfgang Maier, Björn Grüning from UseGalaxy.eu | Variant Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Data January 2021 update |
| 2020 Dec 31 | Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Björn Grüning from UseGalaxy.eu | The European Galaxy Server in 2020 What a shitty year! But it’s over and we hope you and your family are safe and healthy. |
| 2020 Dec 22 | Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Muhammet Celik from UseGalaxy.eu | Open Life Science program & the Galaxy community involvement in OLS-2 and invitation to apply to the next cohort |
| 2020 Nov 26 | Anne Fouilloux from EOSC-Nordic | Insights from the first cross-training between EOSC-Life and EOSC-Nordic Galaxy as a common platform |
| 2020 Nov 24 | Freiburg Galaxy Team from UseGalaxy.eu | Activity report of the last 5 years of the Freiburg Galaxy Team Crucial infrastructure serving more than 22,000 researchers |
| 2020 Nov 20 | Peter Bickerton from Earlham Institute | Accessible single-cell RNA-sequencing bioinformatics training using Galaxy |
| 2020 Oct 14 | Leighton Pritchard from UseGalaxy.eu | Teaching Advanced Microbiology with Galaxy and TIaaS Addressing challenges the global coronavirus pandemic |
| 2020 Sep 15 | Alireza Khanteymoori, Björn Grüning, and Beatriz Serrano-Solano from UseGalaxy.eu | Remote training using Galaxy Lessons learned from our ELIXIR Galaxy Machine Learning Workshop |
| 2020 Aug 28 | Peter van Heusden from SASBi News | Bioinformatics training in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic Bioinformatics online |
| 2020 Aug 26 | Dave Clements from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy: the first 10,000 pubs The Galaxy Publication Library hits a milestone |
| 2020 Aug 22 | Björn Grüning and Beatriz Serrano-Solano from UseGalaxy.eu | 3 steps to get your tool into Galaxy A real-world example |
| 2020 Aug 13 | BCC2020 Organizers from BCC2020 | Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference (BCC2020) |
| 2020 Jul 27 | Chris Armit from GIGABlog | Birthdays and Online Conferences go Viral. ISMB2020 & BCC2020 in the time of COVID-19 Meetings In the Time of Coronavirus: Conferences go Viral |
| 2020 Jul 27 | Anne Fouilloux from UseGalaxy.eu | Climate Science at BCC2020 July has been a very busy month for Galaxy Climate |
| 2020 Jul 19 | StreetScience from UseGalaxy.eu | The landscape of SARS-CoV-2 RNA modifications Studying the RNA modifications of SARS-CoV-2 to improve understanding of SARS viruses |
| 2020 Jul 16 | 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 |
| 2020 Jun 29 | Emily Lescak | Go global and go affordable How BCC2020 went online |
| 2020 Jun 22 | 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 |
| 2020 Apr 24 | 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 |
| 2020 Apr 23 | Björn Grüning from UseGalaxy.eu | Multi-omics Visualization Platform: An extensible Galaxy plug-in for multi-omics data visualization and exploration a visualization plug-in that extends Galaxy-P’s advantages into the visualization of large, complex datasets |
| 2020 Apr 15 | Michael Thompson from OBF | Galaxy Admin 2020 and beyond Everything about Galaxy is Ansible! |
| 2020 Apr 14 | Magnus Ø. Arntzen from UseGalaxy.eu | Integrative meta-omics analysis Integrative meta-omics analysis - Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, Metaproteomics |
| 2020 Feb 14 | 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. |
| 2020 Jan 07 | 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 |
| 2019 Dec 18 | Stephan Beck | Reaching for the stars: PGP-UK multi-omics data now also available on Galaxy Europe Galaxy is particularly useful for anyone seeking training in multi-omics analyses and creating of workflows. |
| 2019 Nov 20 | Ivan Kuzmin from UseGalaxy.eu | gProfiler is published and running on usegalaxy.eu A toolset for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists. |
| 2019 Nov 14 | Ben Orsburn | Great GalaxyP Tutorials hosted at GalaxyProject.eu The arguments are building up for why you need this |
| 2019 Nov 02 | Tomas Klingstrom from UseGalaxy.eu | Sweden + South Africa Training Update Agricultural Sciences collaboration between Swedish University of Agricultural sciences researchers and the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa |
| 2019 Oct 23 | European Galaxy Team from UseGalaxy.eu | Use the power of pandas / numpy to transform tabular datasets on UseGalaxy.eu Drop or duplicate given rows or columns from a tabular dataset, filter rows or columns on their properties, replace or transform table elements, ... |
| 2019 Aug 17 | Tobias Neumann from UseGalaxy.eu | Slamdunk SLAMseq analysis for nucleotide-conversion sequencing datasets |
| 2019 Aug 06 | Anika Erxleben, Helena Rashce, Björn Grüning from UseGalaxy.eu | Galaxy Community Conference A brief summary |
| 2019 Aug 05 | Björn Grüning from UseGalaxy.eu | The Galaxy Genome Annotation Project Scaling Genome Annotation for the Masses |
| 2019 Jul 29 | Dave Clements from the Galactic Blog | Looking for Galaxy (info), in all the right places Which are dangerously close to the wrong places... |
| 2019 Jul 23 | 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 |
| 2019 Jul 08 | Erin Becker, Francois Michonneau from Carpentries Blog | 22 Months in the Making: New (Carpentries) Genomics Curriculum Release What goes into a major lesson update? |
| 2019 May 30 | Enis Afgan and Nuwan Goonasekera from the Galactic Blog | Enabling cloud bursting for Galaxy Expand your compute horizons. |
| 2019 Apr 15 | 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! |
| 2019 Apr 02 | Björn Grüning from the Galactic Blog | A sneak peak at GCC2019 New scheduling format this year |
| 2019 Feb 28 | Mo Heydarian from the Galactic Blog | Interview with Nate Coraor: CVMFS & Galaxy Find out about Galaxy's favorite filesystem |
| 2019 Jan 15 | Bérénice Batut from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Genome annotation with Prokka", selected by Simon Gladman |
| 2018 Dec 27 | Ben Orsburn from News in Proteomics Research | Hey Galaxy People! Want easy proteo-transcriptomics!??! QuanTP is a great new gap bridging tool! |
| 2018 Dec 12 | Martin Čech from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Simon Gladman |
| 2018 Nov 27 | Ming Chen from Staton Lab | Galaxy Tool Generator (GTG) A web application for developing Galaxy tools through web interfaces |
| 2018 Nov 15 | Bérénice Batut from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Reference-based RNA-Seq data analysis", selected by Saskia Hiltemann |
| 2018 Nov 01 | Martin Čech from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Saskia Hiltemann |
| 2018 Oct 15 | Bérénice Batut from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Galaxy 101", selected by Yvan Le Bras |
| 2018 Oct 01 | Björn Grüning from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Yvan Le Bras Citizen Science and Galaxy for Ecology |
| 2018 Sep 28 | Bérénice Batut from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: Maria Doyle selected "From peaks to genes" |
| 2018 Sep 17 | Christina Hall from EMBL-ABR News | Hybrid training delivers online participatory training to far-reaching venues Hybrid training delivers online participatory training to far-reaching venues, with Galaxy of course |
| 2018 Sep 05 | Björn Grüning from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Carrie Ganote |
| 2018 Aug 30 | Peter Briggs from Galactic Engineer | Mercurial-based tool installation issues in Galaxy 18.05 Seeing "Error cloning repository: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"? |
| 2018 Aug 01 | Björn Grüning from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Pablo Moreno |
| 2018 Jun 15 | Bérénice Batut, on behalf of the Galaxy Training Network from the Galactic Blog | A fruitful year for the Galaxy Training material |
| 2018 Feb 01 | Arun Decano | Coding in the Winter Wonderland: Galaxy Admin Training in Oslo, 2018 |
| 2018 Jan 08 | Ming Chen from Staton Lab | Galaxy R Markdown Tools Using R Markdown as a framework to develop Galaxy tools |
| 2017 Dec 12 | Tomas Klingström from the Galactic Blog | Galaksio: a Galaxy user interface focused on running prepared workflows Make your workflows more accessible to non-bioinformaticians |
| 2017 Dec 11 | Tomas Klingström | Bioinformatic training with the B3Africa project Training using the Galaksio interface |
| 2017 Dec 01 | Vimalkumar Velayudhan | Setup your own instance of the Galaxy Bioinformatics platform on DigitalOcean Setup a DigitalOcean droplet with Galaxy, Apache and PostgreSQL |
| 2017 Nov 08 | B. Grüning from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Docker 17.09 CVMFS and Singularity support |
| 2017 Oct 16 | Dave Clements from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy: the first 5,000 pubs The Galaxy Publication Library hits a milestone |
| 2017 Oct 16 | Anton Nekrutenko from the Galactic Blog | Small genome assembly in Galaxy Why not to do assembly on-line? |
| 2017 Oct 10 | Björn Grüning from the Galactic Blog | SciPy and scikit-learn integration into Galaxy |
| 2017 Oct 06 | Helena Rasche from the Galactic Blog | Public Galaxy Server Dashboard a new view of the Universe |
| 2017 Oct 05 | Frederik Coppens, Gildas Le Corguillé, Björn Grüning from the Galactic Blog | ELIXIR establishes a new official Community for Galaxy |
| 2017 Oct 04 | Dave Clements from the Galactic Blog | Welcome to the Galactic Blog It needs you |
| 2017 Sep 20 | Ben Orsburn | APOSTL -- A staggering number of Galaxy AP-MS tools in a user friendly interface! where all the Galaxy tools for Affiniity purification/enrichment MS experiments are located in a form where we all can use them |
| 2017 Aug 01 | Jeffrey Perkel from Naturejobs Blog | TechBlog: Jupyter Joins the Galaxy Working with data programmatically inside Galaxy |
| 2017 Jul 31 | Hollydawn Murry from F1000 Research blog | Intergalactique – the Galaxy Community Conference 2017 a run down of this year's Galaxy Community Conference |
| 2017 Jul 25 | Simon Gladman | Elixir, CLIMB, Sanger and the Galaxy Community Conference UK, UK, UK, and France |
| 2017 May 29 | Paul Gordon from ACHRI Bioinformatics | The ungoogleable: Authenticating a Galaxy Portal with Active Directory How to configure Apache to authenticate a user against an LDAP server that requires authentication to search |
| 2017 Apr 28 | Scott Edmunds from (GIGA)Blog | Guardians of the Galaxy Workflow Galaxy Series, Volumes 1-12 |
| 2017 Apr 25 | Peter Briggs from Galactic Engineer | Securing Galaxy with HTTPS running with Nginx using Let’s Encrypt Secure communication between a Galaxy instance and its users |
| 2017 Mar 17 | Nathan Bott | Galaxy: A Workflow Management System for Modern Life Sciences Research Focus on the data |
| 2017 Mar 10 | Rafa Hernández | How to upgrade a Galaxy Docker image A step by step guide |
| 2016 Nov 02 | Chase Miller from iobio Blog | IOBIO Now in Galaxy bam.iobio and vcf.iobio can now be launched directly from galaxy using your data already stored there. |
| 2016 Sep 20 | Björn Grüning from (GIGA)Blog | Conda as a new standard for Galaxy tool dependencies For deployment issues, we need a package manager that is operating system and programming language agnostic... |
| 2016 Aug 24 | Greg Von Kuster | Galaxy tools for Constructive Solid Geometry Galaxy CSG flavor |
| 2016 Jul 13 | Igor Makunin | Moving data between Galaxy instances [hub page] A howto guide on getting data from one instance to another. |
| 2016 Jun 20 | Marius van den Beek | Running Jobs Outside the Galaxy Docker Container Instructions on how to do this ... |
| 2016 Mar 03 | Alex Kanterakis | Setting up Galaxy with TORQUE on AWS A basic guide on how to setup Galaxy with TORQUE in an EC2 instance |
| 2015 Dec 14 | Nicole Nogoy from (GIGA)Blog | We Wish You a GigaChristmas: A 2015 Wrap-Up a summary of our recent technical developments |
| 2015 Dec 08 | Mikael Loaec, Olivier Inizan | Testing connexion between Galaxy and iRODS Testing the connexion of Galaxy to iRODS object store. |
| 2015 Oct 21 | Steve Cassidy from Steve Cassidy's blog | Galaxy Tool Generating Datasets How to generate dataset collections from a Galaxy tool |
| 2015 Oct 09 | Peter van Heusden from low order magic | How Galaxy resolves tool dependencies (or not) Explanation of Galaxy's tool dependency definitions that specify how to source the actual packages that implement the tool’s commands |
| 2015 Jul 30 | 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. |
| 2015 Jul 12 | Benedikt Rauscher, Benjamen White | BioJS2Galaxy - A step by step guide A simple step by step guide on how to use Sebastian Wilzbach’s application, biojs2galaxy. |
| 2015 Jun 02 | Peter Briggs from Galactic Engineer | Exposing Galaxy reports via nginx in a production instance Outline how I've done this for our local Galaxy set up, which uses nginx. |
| 2015 Apr 22 | Peter Briggs from Galactic Engineer | Using GALAXY_SLOTS with multithreaded Galaxy tools Using GALAXY_SLOTS with multithreaded Galaxy tools |
| 2015 Mar 18 | Peter Briggs from Galactic Engineer | Installing ANNOVAR in Galaxy A HOWTO for installing ANNOVAR in Galaxy |
| 2015 Mar 17 | Peter Briggs from Galactic Engineer | Custom Google web searches for Galaxy help Astronomy, phones, sports teams, chocolate, cars. Not. |
| 2015 Feb 28 | Peter Briggs from Galactic Engineer | FTP upload to Galaxy using ProFTPd and PBKDF2 How to implement ProFTPd using PBKFD2 protocol for encryption |
| 2015 Feb 28 | Pierre Lindenbaum from YOKOFAKUN | Integrating a Java Program in Galaxy Example showing how to install a Java program as a tool in a Galaxy instance |
| 2014 Nov 27 | Nicole Nogoy from (GIGA)Blog | Getting Techy With It: GigaScience Technology Update 2014 GigaGalaxy and “bring your own” data parties |
| 2014 Sep 01 | Tracey Timms-Wilson from The Bio-Linux at the NERC Environmental 'Omics Synthesis Centre series | Overview of Galaxy on Bio-Linux 8 Want to run Galaxy under Bio-Linux 8? |
| 2014 Jun 10 | 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 |
| 2014 Apr 24 | Scott Edmunds from (GIGA)Blog | All systems go at ICSB 2014 and the Great GigaScience and Galaxy (G3) workshop Tackling irreproducible research |
| 2014 Mar 28 | Olivier Inizan, Mikael Loaec from Puppet Forge | Basic Galaxy Puppet Module A puppet module for a very basic galaxy server (use for development) |
| 2014 Feb 06 | Scott Edmunds from (GIGA)Blog | Rewarding Reproducibility: First Papers in our Galaxy Series utilizing our GigaGalaxy platform GigaScience moves toward more interactive articles |
| 2014 Jan 27 | Tim Booth from the Galactic Blog | Problem with logout when using LDAP for authentication with remoteUser enabled Make changes to 4 Galaxy configuration files |
| 2013 Dec 05 | Contributors | Tool Integration Short Tutorial Documents best practices for tool integration |
| 2013 Oct 27 | Sarah Maman, Nabihoudine Ibou | IGV Integration How to set up IGV-Galaxy integration in Apache and Galaxy, including adding custom genomes |
| 2013 Oct 23 | Contributors | Sharing workflows between servers Process for sharing workflows, including wrapping necessary tools |
| 2013 Oct 12 | Thomas Cokelaer | Using BioServices Python Library with Galaxy A HOWTO on linking BioServices and Galaxy |
| 2013 Jul 09 | Scott Edmunds from (GIGA)Blog | #usegalaxy lights up northern skies eye-wateringly expensive alcohol, brown cheese and reproducible research at the Galaxy Community Conference in Oslo |
| 2013 Jul 09 | John Chilton from CloudBioLinux Repo | CloudBioLinux Deployer CloudMan QuickStart How to build CloudMan instances from scratch using the CloudBioLinux deployer |
| 2013 May 06 | Samuel Lampa from Samuel's Tech Blog | Creating a Galaxy tool for R scripts that output images and PDFs XML wrapper and R code |
| 2013 Apr 10 | Contributors | Virtualization at URGI [hub page] Documents creation of virtual machine ISO image |
| 2013 Feb 21 | Brad Chapman from CloudBioLinux Repo | Genome download & indexing using Galaxy rsync servers [hub page] Python script in CloudBioLinux |
| 2013 Jan 25 | Quang Trinh | Launch a customized modENCODE Galaxy on Amazon Web Services A HOWTO guide |
| 2013 Jan 01 | Kostas Karasavvas from RubyGems.org | Create Galaxy Tool from Taverna 2 Workflow The workflow-to-galaxy Ruby Gem |
| Invalid date | Dave Clements, ... from the Galactic Blog | nn Galaxy Resources You Should Know About - 2019 Edition Resources that will help you use Galaxy in your research |