The Laniakea@ReCaS service, based on Laniakea software stack, provides the possibility to automate the creation of Galaxy-based virtualized environments through an easy setup procedure, providing an on-demand workspace ready to be used by life scientists and bioinformaticians. At the end of the configuration process, the user gains access to a private, production-grade, fully customizable, Galaxy virtual instance. Laniakea features the deployment of a stand-alone or cluster backed Galaxy instances, shared reference data volumes, encrypted data volumes and rapid development of novel Galaxy flavours for specific tasks.

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News

Stronger together: first FAIR-EASE and EuroScienceGateway workshop

Presenting some outcomes from the first joined FAIR-EASE / EuroScienceGateway workshop

New Paper "A panel of blood-derived miRNAs with a stable expression pattern as a potential pan-cancer detection signature"

Sabbaghian and colleagues have used the European Galaxy server to study miRNAs as biomarkers for cancer

New Galaxy training: Genome-wide alternative splicing analysis

GTN hosts a new training for analyzing alternative splicing at genome-wide scale

Replacing the Job Router with Zero Downtime on EU

Mothballing the Sorting Hat – how we migrated our dynamic job routing

Galaxy taking part @ Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology 2023

From the 3rd to the 5th of May, Engy Nasr from the Freiburg Galaxy team travelled to Hinxton, England to join and present her work at the Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology 2023 conference

Events

Jun 12 - Jun 15Gallantries & ELIXIR-GOBLET Train the Trainers

This course introduces trainers to learning principles, training techniques, lesson, session, course, and material design as well as assessment and feedback. This course is has been developed for by trainers in the bioinformatics but is suitable for all trainers and educators in higher education.

Jun 15Galaxy Community Call

A forum to share updates and discuss community-wide topics

Jul 6Galaxy Community Call

A forum to share updates and discuss community-wide topics

Jul 10 - Jul 162023 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2023)

The annual gathering of the Galaxy Community with opportunities to hear latest developments, get training, and meet everyone involved.

Jul 14 - Jul 18International Congress of Genetics

Meeting once every 5 years, and right on the heels of GCC2023 in a nearby location, come and check out this year's conference theme: Genetics and Genomics - Linking Life and Society.

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Laniakea is maintained by the IBIOM-CNR, INFN and the University of Milan.

For any questions regarding Laniakea and other ELIXIR-Italy initiatives, please contact us.

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Laniakea enables researchers to configure and deploy personal Galaxy instances, exploiting the INDIGO-DataCloud Cloud Stack. Each Galaxy instance is customizable in terms of virtual CPUs, RAM and storage through the web front-end, and deployable with different sets of pre installed tools. Each instance comes with reference data (e.g. genomic sequences) already available for many species, shared among all the instances.

Each Galaxy instance can be provided with an encrypted external storage volume to protect users research data from any unauthorized access attempts and linked to a repository of standard reference data (e.g., genomic sequences).

The service is scalable and both users and service providers can choose among a full range of different computational capabilities: from limited ones to serve e.g. small research groups, Galaxy developers or for didactic and training purposes, to instances with elasticity cluster support to deliver enough computational power.

Laniakea can also be employed as a tool publishing platform. That is, tools developers can choose to publish and make new tools available embedding them in a personalized Galaxy instance. See for example PIPE-T and VINYL.

The Laniakea@ReCaS service, based on Laniakea software stack, has been released for public use, starting on 10 February 2020. A scientific and technical evaluation board appointed by ELIXIR-Italy will assess the scientific soundness and technical feasibility of applications for the Laniakea@ReCaS call. Projects will be evaluated with a “first come, first served” policy until the total available resource annual budget will be assigned.

The call is available here.

All applications must be submitted using this form.