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Galaxy @ ASM BIG 2026

Galaxy heads to ASM BIG 2026 with an invited talk from Mike Schatz and a table open for the whole meeting — stop by to talk BRC-Analytics, Orbit, User Defined Tools, workflows, HPC, and more.

Scott Cain
conference talk
Date
Location Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, United States

Galaxy is heading to ASM BIG 2026 — the ASM Bioinformatics, Genomics and Big Data Conference (formerly ASM NGS) — held October 11–14, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Invited Talk

Mike Schatz (Johns Hopkins University) from the Galaxy community will give an invited talk.

Find Galaxy All Week

Members of the Galaxy team will be at the meeting for its full duration with a table where anyone can stop by to chat, ask questions, grab some candy, or just say hi. Topics we’re happy to talk about include:

  • BRC-Analytics — analysis tools and genomic annotations for pathogen, host, and vector data
  • Orbit — Galaxy’s AI research harness that lets you converse about your data, draft and run analysis plans, and route steps to Galaxy
  • User Defined Tools (currently in beta) — write and run your own simple tools directly from the Galaxy interface, no server access or admin installation required. Contact us for access
  • Workflows (IWC) — the Intergalactic Workflow Commission’s library of open, peer-reviewed workflows for reproducible science
  • High Performance Computing — compute provided to usegalaxy.org via Jetstream2 and TACC
  • Petabase-scale sequence search — the Logan database and the tools that search it (kmindex, Logan Protein, LexicMap), all runnable in Galaxy (see below)
  • Reproducible computational biology
  • Free access — Galaxy is free to use for everyone

Come find us to learn more about how Galaxy can support your microbial genomics and bioinformatics work.

Searching All of Public Sequencing Data

Ask us about searching the world’s public sequencing data. At the base is one database:

Logan — a planetary-scale assembly of the entire NCBI Sequence Read Archive: 38 million accessions (87 petabases of raw reads, December 2025 freeze) assembled into freely downloadable contigs and unitigs, hosted on AWS Open Data (Chikhi et al., bioRxiv; v1.2 release notes). Hear the story in our GCC2026 keynote recap.

Three tools sit on top of Logan to search it — all runnable in Galaxy on usegalaxy.org:

Flyer Resources

Picked up one of our flyers at the meeting (or scanned its QR code)? Here’s where to go deeper on everything we featured.

Get started with Galaxy

Microbiology on Galaxy

  • Microbiology Galaxy Lab — a dedicated microbiology view of Galaxy with 315+ tool suites, 115+ workflows, and 40+ tutorials, curated by the microGalaxy community
  • Microbiology Galaxy Lab paper (Nasr, Pechlivanis, et al., F1000Research 2025)
  • PathoGFAIR (Nasr et al., GigaScience 2025) — FAIR, adaptable Galaxy workflows for (foodborne) pathogen detection and tracking from Nanopore sequencing

BRC-Analytics

Orbit

  • Orbit — download the desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows (open source, in beta)
  • Orbit support forum — early-access help, bug reports, and feedback
  • Case study — standardizing fungal pathogen RNA-seq with BRC-Analytics and agentic AI: eight frontier LLMs reanalyze a Candidozyma auris study on Galaxy through Orbit

Workflows and tools

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