Galaxy Freiburg
The homepage of the Freiburg Galaxy community
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
Freiburg Galaxy team recently joined experts in Göttingen for the 1st Open Architecture Workshop to help shape the future technical foundations of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The team presented their cloud-oriented architecture and shared critical insights from the PLANT DataHUB regarding scalable storage and the "Software as a Service" approach. Read the full report to discover how collaborative efforts and common building blocks, such as ARC RO-crates, are driving the development of a robust and interoperable data ecosystem.
Using Claude AI for Literature Searches
LLMs for literature search produce 'interesting' results: It is almost useful
Galaxy Powers FAIR Data: The BERD@NFDI B-Plan Use Case Shines at EOSC Symposium 2025
At the EOSC Symposium 2025, a standout example was the BERD@NFDI B-Plan use case, a project demonstrating how the Galaxy Europe platform provides the analytical engine to transform complex, unstructured planning data into FAIR research assets for the entire European research community.
Galaxy Tool Wrapping: Introducing the New Tool Developers SIG
Join the newly formed Tool Developers Special Interest Group (SIG) to collaborate on high-quality tool maintenance and standardize best practices across the Galaxy ecosystem. This initiative offers a dedicated space for mentorship, peer review, and community-driven development for developers of all experience levels.
The Intergalactic Workflow Commission
Try Galaxy workflows with test data
Events
Dec 12Tools for Tomorrow NIAID BRC Webinar
Using BRC-Analytics to analyze C. auris data
Jan 9 - Jan 14PAG 33 Plant and Animal Genome Conference
Join PAG 33 to explore breakthroughs in plant and animal genomics and bioinformatics.
Mar 9 - Mar 13Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy
This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy
Jun 22 - Jun 272026 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2026)
The annual gathering of the Galaxy Community with opportunities to hear latest developments, get training, and meet everyone involved.
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!
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.