European Galaxy Days
European Galaxy Days will be held 19 and 20 November 2018 in Freiburg, Germany. This two day gathering will be similar to the events we held in 2016, 2014, and 2012. The first day will give an overview of the current state of the Galaxy framework with several talks and demonstrations. The second day will focus on developing and extending the Galaxy ecosystem.
Latest News
20-Nov: We will meet at 19 in Bertholdsbrunnen
19-Nov: We have reserved a few tables at the Mehlwaage at 19:00. Its in the city, nearby Martinstor, here is the GoogleMap link.
18-Nov: We are in the Martinsbraeu Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 237
12-Nov: If you travel on Sunday (November 18th) to Freiburg, and want to meet up in the late afternoon: We meet in the middle of the old town, in front of the cathedral ("Freiburger Muenster"), near the fountain ([Georgsbrunnen](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgsbrunnen\_(Freiburg_im_Breisgau )) at 5PM. The place where we will have dinner (and/or beer) will be posted here and on gitter.
Dinner, November 20th, 19:00
We will meet at 19 in Bertholdsbrunnen
Monday, November 19th
| Time | Speaker | Title | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45 - 10:00 | ARRIVAL | ||
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz (FMI) | Welcome and short introduction into the Galaxy Project | slides |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Björn Grüning (University of Freiburg) | State of the Galaxy Project - priorities, plans, and community (from a European perspective) | slides |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Matthias Bernt (UFZ) | Establishing a Galaxy Server and building a Galaxy User Community from scratch. A field report from the UFZ Leipzig | slides |
| 11:45 - 12:20 | Geoffrey Nelson (Harvard Medical School) | Refinery: a data management, analysis, and visualization platform using the Galaxy workbench (plus Demo) | slides |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13:30 - 13:55 | Anika Erxleben (University of Freiburg) | Galaxy Community Conference 2019 in Freiburg | slides |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Thomas Wollman (BioQuant) | Galaxy Image Analysis: Web-based systematic phenotyping | |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Jochen Bick (ETH Zurich) | Interactive plotting with ggplot and shiny in Galaxy | slides |
| 14:45 - 15:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:40 - 16:05 | Krzysztof Poterlowicz (University of Bradford) | EWAS tool development / Training / Elixir-CNV community | slides |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Bérénice Batut (University of Freiburg) | RNA-Seq data analysis in Galaxy: lessons learned and what next? | slides |
| 16:30 - 16:55 | Mehmet Tekman (University of Freiburg) | Single Cell in Galaxy, from pre-processing to analysis | slides |
| 16:55 - 17:00 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz | concluding remarks | |
| 17:00 | ...going to the pub |
Tuesday, November 20th
| Time | Speaker | Title | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz (FMI) | Welcome and organization for the day | |
| 9:30 - 09:55 | Marius van den Beek (Institut Curie), John Chilton (Penn State) | Travelling with warp-speed, an update on Galaxy workflows | slides |
| 09:55 - 10:20 | Nicola Soranzo (Earlham Institute) | Beta Python 3 support for Galaxy in release 18.09, at last! | slides |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Musumba Awori (Goethe University of Frankfurt) | Draft genome of a bacterium (Xenorhabdus griffiniae XN45) isolated from Kenyan Steinernema nematodes reveals its potential synthesis of a spectrum of specialised metabolites | slides |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:35 | Marco Tangaro (IBIOM) | Providing Galaxy based bioinformatic environments through cloud technologies (plus demo) | slides |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Sveinung Gundersen (UiO) | Proposed infrastructure to search, fetch and analyze FAIRified genomic tracks in Galaxy | slides |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Helena Rasche | State of the European Galaxy Project | slides |
| 12:25 - 13:35 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13:35 - 13:45 | Bérénice Batut (University of Freiburg) | Update on the Galaxy Training Network | slides |
| 13:45 - 14:10 | Nikolay Vazov (UiO) | Two customizations in Galaxy | slides |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Yvan Le Bras (Muséum national d’histoire naturelle) | GalaxyE, a new vision of workflow oriented Biodiversity research? | |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Anup Kumar (University of Freiburg) | Machine learning with Galaxy | slides |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz | end of official part | |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:40 - .... | informal gathering for hacking, discussions, etc...and finally going to the pub again |
Registration
There will be no conference fee. Though, you need to cover for your food and accomodation (we are currently looking for sponsors to cover the lunches on the two days)
Venue
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Institute for Informatics
Georges-Köhler-Allee 101
2nd floor, room 2.16-18
79110 Freiburg
Germany
How to get to the campus of the Technische Fakultät
From Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg airport (EuroAirport)
- use the French/German exit and take the airport shuttle bus to Freiburg Hauptbahnhof http://www.freiburger-reisedienst.de/en/airportbus/timetable.php
- use the Swiss exit and take the local bus (#50) to the train station in Basel, and from there take a train to Freiburg
From Freiburg Hauptbahnhof
- by local train: Take the Breisgau S-Bahn from Hauptbahnhof Freiburg in the direction of Gottenheim/Breisach to Neue Messe/Universität.
- by Tram 4, direction Messe, stop “Technische Fakultät/Messe” http://www.vag-freiburg.de/fahrplan-linien/netzplaene/liniennetzplan.html
Suggested Accommodations
- Motel One
Friedrichring 1 - Hotel Stadt Freiburg
Breisacher Str. 84
79110 Freiburg im Breisgau - Hotel am Rathaus
Rathausgasse 4-8 - Hotel Barbara
Poststrasse 4 - Intercity Hotel Freiburg
Bismarckallee 3
Note: In Freiburg you have to pay an additional accommodation tax. For business trips this tax does not have to be paid if your employer fills out the form available at this page and you show this form to the hotel.
Questions?
Contact Hans-Rudolf Hotz (hrh@fmi.ch) or Björn Grüning (gruening@informatik.uni-freiburg.de) or Jean-François Dufayard (jean-francois.dufayard@cirad.fr)