Galaxy is an open-source platform for FAIR data analysis that enables users to:

  • use tools from various domains (that can be plugged into workflows) through its graphical web interface.
  • run code in interactive environments (RStudio, Jupyter...) along with other tools or workflows.
  • manage data by sharing and publishing results, workflows, and visualizations.
  • ensure reproducibility by capturing the necessary information to repeat and understand data analyses.

The Galaxy Community is actively involved in helping the ecosystem improve and sharing scientific discoveries.

News

Report from the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration Conference (HMC) 2024

Galaxy imaging and RDM workflows were presented at the HMC 2024

Engaging, Learning, and Sharing at the German Conference of Bioinformatics 2024 with the Galaxy Team!

A recap of our Galaxy team's experience at GCB 2024, featuring insightful talks, interactive poster sessions, hands-on workshops, and memorable social events!

Galaxy in Research: Microbial life at Arctic hydrothermal vents

How do hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean fuel microbial life? A new study explores the microbial ecosystems thriving at the Aurora and Polaris seamounts, revealing key insights into how hydrogen and sulfur power deep-sea life.

Announcing the GBCC2025 Logo Design Contest!

Unleash your creativity for the first-ever Galaxy & Bioconductor Community Conference!

Freiburg Galaxy team at the EGI 2024

Members from the Freiburg Galaxy team traveled to Lecce, Italy to participate and present the EuroScienceGateway (ESG) project at the EGI2024 meeting from 1st-3rd October.

Events

Nov 13 - Nov 16Biological Data Science

The scope of this meeting will be the infrastructure, software, and algorithms needed to analyze large data sets in biological research.

Nov 21microGalaxy Meets IWC - A Hackathon for microbial data analysis workflow FAIRification

One-day hackathon focused on integrating, refining, and FAIRifying microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows within the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC), enhancing their accessibility, reusability for the microbiology community

Mar 10 - Mar 14Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy. The course is a beginner course; there is no requirement of any programming skills.

Our services

The Freiburg Galaxy Team is offering several services to enable reproducible and accessible research for everyone:

Training

We regularly provide workshops.

But we cannot always meet capacity, so we've put all of our training materials online. This has become a community project with people from all over the world contributing training materials.

Topics include: variant analysis, transcriptomics, metagenomics, epigenetics, and many more!

Visit the Training Material View Publication

Galaxy training materials page

Acknowledgements

We are aiming to maintain high competency and provide high-quality data analysis services to all our Galaxy users.

Therefore, we request that you acknowledge this service by including the members of the Freiburg Galaxy Team as co-authors if they have made a significant intellectual and/or organizational contribution to the work described (conceptualization, design, data analysis, data interpretation and/or input into drafting, revising or writing any portion of the manuscript).

Individuals who have contributed to the project, but whose contributions do not rise to the level justifying authorship, can be recognized in the acknowledgements section of the manuscript as follows:

The authors acknowledge the support of the Freiburg Galaxy Team: Person X and Prof. Rolf Backofen, Bioinformatics, University of Freiburg, Germany funded by Collaborative Research Centre 992 Medical Epigenetics (DFG grant SFB 992/1 2012) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant 031 A538A de.NBI-RBC).

Additional funding of projects and/or provision of material expenses are welcome as well, to help support our growing Galaxy community in Freiburg.