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| 18 November 2024 | Massive open online education party: The Galaxy Training Academy | In October 2024, the Galaxy Training Network (GTN) was running a global Galaxy online course |
| 16 November 2024 | Galaxy Docker Image Update: Version 24.1 Released! | Discover Galaxy Docker 24.1 with updated services, streamlined architecture, and new features. |
| 15 November 2024 | Training Infrastructure Feedback from Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Lucille Delisle | We were super happy to stand in front of a group of highly motivated people to teach them galaxy and workflows. |
| 15 November 2024 | MGnify amplicon pipeline v5.0 on Galaxy | Porting the MGnify Amplicon Pipeline v5.0 to Galaxy: A Collaborative Effort with EBI |
| 8 November 2024 | Report from the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration Conference (HMC) 2024 | Galaxy imaging and RDM workflows were presented at the HMC 2024 |
| 30 October 2024 | 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. |
| 30 October 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! |
| 25 October 2024 | Announcing the GBCC2025 Logo Design Contest! | Unleash your creativity for the first-ever Galaxy & Bioconductor Community Conference! |
| 10 October 2024 | 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. |
| 9 October 2024 | Expanding the Galaxy platform to materials science workflows at STFC | New Opportunities for Better User Group Software (NOBUGS 2024) |
| 1 October 2024 | Galaxy in Research: New insights into antibody activation using AlphaFold in Galaxy | How do antigens trigger B-cell receptors (BCRs), and can a single mechanism explain the activation of all BCR types? This study explores a unifying model that integrates various mechanisms of BCR triggering, providing fresh perspectives on antibody activation. |
| 24 September 2024 | Galaxy Newsletter: September 2024 | Discover exciting updates, including the Galaxy Training Academy 2024, ColabFold's arrival on Galaxy, GBCC2025, and major community milestones! |
| 23 September 2024 | 100,000 users for Galaxy-EU | We are thrilled to announce, that UseGalaxy.EU has reached 100,000 users! |
| 20 September 2024 | Bring Your Own Storage with Galaxy | Connect Galaxy with external storage resources easily |
| 20 September 2024 | We are striking! | usegalaxy.eu closes job-queue on September 20th to support climate strike |
| 5 September 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Uncovering the evolutionary secrets of wild loquats using comparative chloroplast genomics | A new study has sequenced and analyzed two wild loquat chloroplast genomes, revealing key insights into their evolutionary history and the genetic diversity of loquat species. |
| 21 August 2024 | Hosting R/Shiny applications on Galaxy (and other frameworks) | Thanks to the outcome of a small Galaxy/Bioconductor hackathon earlier this year, it has become much easier to deploy Shiny applications as interactive tools (ITs) on usegalaxy.eu |
| 20 August 2024 | Opinion: Conda, Anaconda and the much bigger problem behind it | Anaconda, DockerHub, Quay.io, GitHub ... we need to talk about the sustainability of our infrastructure. |
| 19 August 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Advancing quantum materials research with Galaxy | At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists have harnessed the power of Galaxy to bring together cutting-edge computing resources, paving the way for new discoveries in quantum materials through advanced neutron scattering data analysis. |
| 14 August 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Exploring DNA methylation and aging across diverse human tissues | How does DNA methylation correlate with aging across different human tissues? A new study provides insights into this question, revealing tissue-specific and shared epigenetic patterns. |
| 3 August 2024 | WorkflowHub Publishers and Journal Forum | Meeting Summary from EuroScienceGateway's WorkflowHub Publishers and Journal Forum |
| 30 July 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Exploring Genetic Variability in Almond Blooming | Learn how genetic variations influence the blooming periods of almond cultivars, revealing key insights into their molecular regulation. |
| 29 July 2024 | What do you want to know about Galaxy-EU? Our first "Ask us anything" Q&A session | Galaxy-EU had its first ask us anything live webinar |
| 29 July 2024 | Design rationale for using the Galaxy platform | |
| 26 July 2024 | IRCCS AOUBO Hospital in Bologna leverages Galaxy Project for diagnosing rare diseases | The Galaxy Project has found its way into the practices of a leading medical institution in Bologna, Italy |
| 26 July 2024 | Shiny phyloseq interactive tool available on usegalaxy.eu - practical outcome of the Bioconductor Hackathon | We are thrilled to announce, that thanks to the help of the Bioconductor community, we could deploy the Shiny phyloseq App as an interactive tool (IT) on usegalaxy.eu |
| 24 July 2024 | Galaxy Newsletter: July 2024 | Tune in for exciting updates from GCC2024, the latest Galaxy release, and more in this edition of the Galaxy Newsletter! |
| 19 July 2024 | GCC2024 Meeting Report | Discover the highlights from GCC2024, where the Galaxy community gathered in Brno to share insights, innovations, and collaborations. |
| 17 July 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Unlocking genetic secrets of Lake Baikal’s endemic sponges | Explore the depths of Lake Baikal and discover how cutting-edge genetic research in Galaxy is unraveling the complex relationships between its unique sponge species. |
| 11 July 2024 | Enabling architectures that collect community-centric research software metadata | The ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem (RSEc) and the Galaxy Codex make use of GitHub CI bots to collect research software metadata and provide a FAIR tool metadata repository for the global research community |
| 8 July 2024 | Galaxy Social - Democratising Galaxy’s social media activity | A summary of what Galaxy Social is. |
| 3 July 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Molecular secrets of minnow adaptation to salinity stress | Discover how advanced transcriptomic analyses in Galaxy reveal the intricate molecular adaptations of minnows to freshwater salinization. |
| 1 July 2024 | Galaxy Community Conference 2024 - a brief summary from the Freiburg Galaxy Team! | A brief summary from the Freiburg Galaxy Team for GCC 2024 |
| 20 June 2024 | Galaxy Release 24.1 | See what's new on Galaxy with the 24.1 release notes! |
| 11 June 2024 | The EuroScienceGateway (ESG)team, working in the UK to develop Galaxy tools for materials science presented a poster on Applying Galaxy platform to XAS use cases at the Diamond light source spectroscopy user group meeting 2024. | |
| 10 June 2024 | The 2024 Galaxy Community Update Paper is Here! | Discover the latest advancements and future directions of the Galaxy Project in the community's newly published 2024 update paper. |
| 5 June 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Decoding chromatin interactions with asteRIa | Find out how Galaxy helps researchers unlock the mysteries of gene expression regulation through chromatin studies. |
| 3 June 2024 | As part of the EuroScienceGateway and in cooperation with Onedata and EGI we are providing all GTN training data on a publicly accessible cloud storage | |
| 3 June 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Investigating Food Safety Threats | Learn how Galaxy can be used to detect and analyze drug-resistant bacteria threatening food safety in Egypt. |
| 29 May 2024 | EGI Check-in now available as login option in UseGalaxy.eu | EuroScienceGateway project enables EGI users in UseGalaxy.eu |
| 28 May 2024 | Develop and engage: Sustainable software tools for large-scale facilities using the Galaxy platform | Talk on Galaxy tools for muon experiments and catalysis research at the CECAM conference |
| 28 May 2024 | Galaxy talks at NeIC 2024 | Two talks about Galaxy, Meta-scheduling and the GTN at the NeIC 2024 - Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Conference (Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow) |
| 27 May 2024 | All GTN training data in one basket | Providing effortless access to GTN training data via Onedata |
| 22 May 2024 | Are you organizing a training event using GTN materials? You can now add your event directly to the GTN! | |
| 20 May 2024 | EuroScienceGateway project: Easy deployment of ARC endpoints with Infrastructure Manager | Deploy ARC endpoints in the EGI Federated Cloud easily with Infrastructure Manager |
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| 15 May 2024 | Galaxy Release 24.0 | Check out the newest features and updates on Galaxy! |
| 14 May 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Exploring the Hidden World of Antarctic Toxins with Galaxy | Discover how Galaxy is helping to unravel the hidden world of peptide toxins in an Antarctic marine invertebrate. |
| 13 May 2024 | We are happy to report that over the years of our fruitful collaboration with ELIXIR TeSS, all GTN materials should receive a perfect score on the FAIR-Checker. | |
| 3 May 2024 | InvenioRDM integration in Galaxy | Discover a more streamlined approach to research data management with Galaxy's integration with InvenioRDM-compatible repositories. |
| 30 April 2024 | How to improve the annotation of Galaxy resources? Outcomes of an online hackathon for improving the annotation of Galaxy resources for microbial data resources | Find out how we improved the annotation of Galaxy tools and training material for microbiological data analysis! |
| 28 April 2024 | Poster highlight: Implementation of a reproducible pipeline for producing seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasts (Stoeckl et al. 2023) | We are thrilled to highlight the poster presentation by Vanessa Stoeckl at the European Geoscience Union (EGU) Conference 2024. " |
| 25 April 2024 | Using the Galaxy Platform in Large Scale Experiments | The EuroScienceGateway team, working in the UK to develop Galaxy tools for materials science, gave one of the latest webinars of the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) project. |
| 24 April 2024 | Melbourne Bioinformatics is expanding their team and recruiting three new roles to work on bioinformatics training, outreach, and research. | |
| 18 April 2024 | Talk by Alan Rubin in Freiburg | Bioinformatics club talk by Alan Rubin: Analyzing and Sharing Data from High-throughput Mutagenesis Experiments |
| 12 April 2024 | Annual Report 2023 of the Freiburg Galaxy Team | Report about activities and achievements |
| 12 April 2024 | An earth system case study at the EGU 2024 | A Galaxy workflow presented during the European Geoscience Union |
| 28 March 2024 | As part of the work of BeYond COVID, we have developed a new integration between the MINERVA Platform’s COVID-19 Disease Map and Galaxy! Datasets created within Galaxy can now be seamlessly visualized in the MINERVA Platform, allowing you to explore your data in the context of the COVID-19 Disease Map. | |
| 26 March 2024 | ELIXIR-UK’s Data Stewardship Fellowship is excited to announce a new learning pathway focused on FAIR Data Management! This program equips researchers and research support staff with the skills to effectively manage their research data. | |
| 22 March 2024 | BioNT Community Event: Open call for proposals | Are you interested in training and want to exchange and get to know other learning communities? BioNT, together with the Carpentries, is hosting a 3-day community event. |
| 19 March 2024 | Galaxy Team Meeting in Austin, Texas | Check out what was accomplished when part of the Galaxy team got together in Austin, Texas, for a team meeting! |
| 19 March 2024 | James 'JJ' Johnson | |
| 18 March 2024 | At the Galaxy Training Network we are really committed to ensuring our training materials are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable | |
| 18 March 2024 | Galaxy Newsletter: March 2024 | Dive into the March 2024 Galaxy Newsletter! |
| 8 March 2024 | Achievements during the 'Image Analysis in Galaxy' hackathon | Find out the new features that are now available for image analysts! |
| 7 March 2024 | NCBI Foreign Contamination Screen Tool: Now Available in Galaxy! | We are thrilled to have partnered with NCBI to include their Foreign Contamination Screen tool in Galaxy! |
| 4 March 2024 | We know the GTN has a lot of learning materials (400 and counting!) which can make it quite difficult to figure out where to start in some topics. | |
| 1 March 2024 | CellProfiler now available in Galaxy as an interactive tool too | Use CellProfiler as if you were working in your local workstation |
| 29 February 2024 | Initial EuroScienceGateway workflows published in WorkflowHub | Workflows covering astronomy, biodiversity, earth science and genomics published in WorkflowHub together with onboarding guide |
| 29 February 2024 | Building upon the work previously done for the SARS-Cov-2 Topic we have further expanded the ‘tag based topics’ to support a new GMOD topic. | |
| 28 February 2024 | FOSDEM 2024: How Galaxy democratizes data analysis | Galaxy Europe at the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting in Brussels 🍟 |
| 27 February 2024 | Horizon Europe project EOSC EuroScienceGateway at EOSC Winter School 2024 | |
| 26 February 2024 | Napari: A fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer on Galaxy! | Use Napari in the European Galaxy Server as an interactive tool |
| 26 February 2024 | Molecular Biology of Plants conference (MBP 2024) | Poster Presentation entitled MAdLand Tools & Resources |
| 23 February 2024 | DOMPS Plant Science Seminar | Seminar talk entitled MAdLand Resources & Tools presented by Deepti Varshney and Saskia Hiltemann |
| 9 February 2024 | PAG31 Meeting Report | Read about Galaxy's participation at PAG31. |
| 7 February 2024 | Galaxy Release 23.2 | Workflow comments, InvenioRDM integration, improved search, admin and config updates and more! |
| 6 February 2024 | The start of OSCARS - an EOSC project | Galaxy Europe being part of the new 'Open Science Clusters' Action for Research & Society' (OSCARS) |
| 4 February 2024 | Satellite data for earth sciences | Jupyterlabs and Notebooks for earth, environment, and climate sciences |
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| 26 January 2024 | Galaxy is Leaving Twitter/X | Effective March 31st, 2024, Galaxy will be leaving Twitter/X. |
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| 15 January 2024 | Graphical retrospectives of personal and community-wide contributions to Galaxy | Web-based tool to keep track of activities within the different Galaxy communities based on the Git histories of the relevant repositories on GitHub. |
| 23 December 2023 | Galaxy Single-cell Community: Year in Review | The Galaxy Single-cell Community provides a 2023 review! |
| 22 December 2023 | EuroScienceGateway Work Package 3: first year achievements | |
| 19 December 2023 | Galaxy Newsletter: December 2023 | Check out the December 2023 Galaxy Newsletter to learn about some of the highlights of 2023, take a look ahead into 2024, and read some of this year's top Galaxy Success Stories! |
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| 14 December 2023 | Galaxy Europe has been added as a new ELIXIR RIR | usegalaxy.eu is now an ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource! |
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| 29 November 2023 | Inference using a publicly available pre-trained AI model (BioModels) in Galaxy | Use a Galaxy tool for making prediction on test data using publicly available pre-trained AI model (BioModels) served via a Docker container |
| 29 November 2023 | New Paper "Transformer-based tool recommendation system in Galaxy" | |
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| 21 November 2023 | 2nd BioNT Training workshop - From Hero to Zero with Python | BioNT delivered its second training workshop, From Hero to Zero with Python, from 21th to 24th of November, 2023. This post reports this workshop's organisation, and the backgound and feedback of its applicants and participants. |
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| 14 November 2023 | "Run on Galaxy" button in WorkflowHub | Find solutions and templates in WorkflowHub, immediately import to Galaxy on a click |
| 14 November 2023 | AquaINFRA - welcome to EuroScienceGateway | A new community AquaINFRA joins the WP5 of European Science Gateway project |
| 8 November 2023 | EuroScienceGateway project: new EGI Check-in and WLCG IAM backends available in python-social-auth | Python-social-auth release 4.5.0 includes two new backends contributed by EuroScienceGateway |
| 31 October 2023 | EuroScienceGateway project: Easy deployment of Pulsar endpoints with Infrastructure Manager | Deploy Pulsar endpoints in the EGI Federated Cloud easily with Infrastructure Manager |
| 30 October 2023 | An update on Galaxy Genome Annotation | Galaxy as a platform for the annotation of genomes |
| 30 October 2023 | bwHPC Symposium | Introducing Galaxy: A new cloud and HPC gateway for data-driven computational research |
| 25 October 2023 | Galaxy and workflows: advancing SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in wastewater | Galaxy empowered research in SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in wastewater |
| 18 October 2023 | Ocean Data View : a new and first of it's kind tool for the Earth-System subdomain | Use Ocean Data View (ODV) in Galaxy Europe as an interactive tool |
| 17 October 2023 | A brand new subdomain of Galaxy Europe : earth-system.usegalaxy.eu | A subdomain to process, analyse and access Earth System and Environmental data |
| 13 October 2023 | The European Galaxy Days are over... | ...but we look back with a relaxed smile. Let's draw the balance! |
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| 12 October 2023 | Galaxy goes Research Data Infrastructure | The Galaxy Europe Team active at NFDI's CoRDI (Karlsruhe, Germany, Sep 12th to 14th) |
| 10 October 2023 | EGI and EuroScienceGateway sign Service-Level Agreement | Elevating FAIR data analytics in EOSC: SLA between ESG and EGI; IISAS to bring in additional resources |
| 6 October 2023 | QGIS : A Geographical Information System on Galaxy ! | Use QGIS in Galaxy Europe as an interactive tool |
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| 5 October 2023 | Galaxy 23.1 Release | Galaxy 23.1 is here! Check out the highlights! |
| 3 October 2023 | New Review Article "A Galaxy of informatics resources for MS-based proteomics" | Mehta et al. have written a review about the Galaxy ecosystem as it has emerged as a pivotal player by providing a range of open-source tools and adaptable computing solutions for proteomics research |
| 29 September 2023 | Success Story: “TIaaS: Training Infrastructure as a Service for an MGnify training” | The MGnify team of EMBL-EBI have used [TIaaS](https://usegalaxy.eu/tiaas/) to run the [MGnify Interactive Tool](https://usegalaxy.eu/?tool_id=interactive_tool_mgnify_notebook) on scale |
| 28 September 2023 | Time to celebrate! | Galaxy having grown up and matured - happy 18th birthday! |
| 28 September 2023 | 1st BioNT Training workshop - A practical introduction to bioinformatics and RNA-seq using Galaxy | BioNT delivered its first training workshop, A practical introduction to bioinformatics and RNA-seq using Galaxy, from 4th to 8th of September, 2023. This post reports this workshop's organisation, the applicants and participants, as well as their feedback about it. |
| 28 September 2023 | New Paper "Integrative meta-omics in Galaxy and beyond" | Schiml *et al.* present three integrative meta-omics workflows, developed in Galaxy, for enhanced analysis and integration of metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metaproteomics, combined with a newly developed web-application, ViMO (Visualizer for Meta-Omics) to analyse metabolisms in complex microbial communities. |
| 25 September 2023 | Connecting Astronomical Data Archives with Galaxy | Enabling astronomers to search and download data from IVOA-compliant archives directly within Galaxy |
| 18 September 2023 | Galaxy taking part @ German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2023 | From the 11th to the 14th of September, Engy Nasr and Paul Zierep from the Freiburg Galaxy team travelled to Hamburg to join and present their posters at the German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2023 |
| 15 September 2023 | Interactive tool collection is growing | New and improved interactive tools are available |
| 13 September 2023 | Galaxy Newsletter: September 2023 | Galaxy is excited to announce the relaunch of our Galaxy Newsletter! We are thrilled to share updates on Galaxy, including topics such as events, scientific successes, and general community announcements. |
| 11 September 2023 | We are striking! | usegalaxy.eu closes job-queue on September 15th to support climate strike |
| 14 August 2023 | ChatGPT in Galaxy via Jupyter notebooks | Use ChatGPT in Galaxy Europe via JupyterLab interactive tool. |
| 14 August 2023 | GCC2023 Meeting Report | That's a wrap! Catch up on all the highlights from GCC2023 here! |
| 11 August 2023 | Survival analysis for right censored data using lifelines | Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models are available for testing in Galaxy |
| 7 August 2023 | Generic scatter plots for any Galaxy tabular data | A tool generating interactive HTML scatter plots from Galaxy tabular data is now available for testing |
| 24 July 2023 | Freiburg Galaxy team at the EGI 2023 | From June 19th to 23rd, members from the Freiburg Galaxy team traveled to Poznań, Poland to participate and present the EuroScienceGateway (ESG) project at the EGI2023 meeting |
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| 11 July 2023 | Carbon Emissions Reporting in Galaxy | Dynamic carbon emissions reporting for jobs in Galaxy |
| 7 July 2023 | Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference 2023 | Several Galaxy Community members gathered in Davos |
| 30 June 2023 | Galaxy Single-cell Updates | Latest updates on Galaxy tools, workflows and training materials developed by the Galaxy single-cell community |
| 28 June 2023 | Upscaling file uploads with rustus | Migrating the server software behind our file upload system |
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| 24 June 2023 | ELIXIR releases 2022 Annual Report - the Galaxy perspective | 2022 as a year of growth for ELIXIR, and Galaxy being a part of it. |
| 23 June 2023 | GPU-enabled deep learning on Galaxy | Taking advantage of Galaxy's GPU computing nodes |
| 21 June 2023 | ||
| 16 June 2023 | Coordination meeting of EOSC-related projects funded under Horizon Europe | Members of the EuroScienceGateway project attended the EOSC Coordination meeting in Brussels |
| 16 June 2023 | Galaxy for Astronomy: Integration of the FITS file format | Enabling native support and visualization of Astronomical FITS data in Galaxy |
| 16 June 2023 | Freiburg Galaxy team at the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2023 | From June 5th to 8th, several members from the Freiburg Galaxy team travelled to Dublin, Ireland to participant and present their work at the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2023 |
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| 6 June 2023 | EU Maintenance Announcement 12th June | EU database maintenance, 8hrs downtime estimated |
| 6 June 2023 | New Paper "An accessible infrastructure for artificial intelligence using a Docker-based JupyterLab in Galaxy" | |
| 1 June 2023 | ||
| 22 May 2023 | Stronger together: first FAIR-EASE and EuroScienceGateway workshop | Presenting some outcomes from the first joined FAIR-EASE / EuroScienceGateway workshop |
| 21 May 2023 | 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 |
| 17 May 2023 | New Galaxy training: Genome-wide alternative splicing analysis | GTN hosts a new training for analyzing alternative splicing at genome-wide scale |
| 11 May 2023 | ||
| 8 May 2023 | Replacing the Job Router with Zero Downtime on EU | Mothballing the Sorting Hat – how we migrated our dynamic job routing |
| 6 May 2023 | 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 |
| 5 May 2023 | Joining forces in EOSC: OpenAIRE and EuroScienceGateway sign Memorandum of Understanding | EuroScienceGateway and OpenAIRE team up to enhance accessibility and FAIRness of scientific data from the Galaxy project. |
| 21 April 2023 | You understand the data? Call for action! | Civil disobedience by climate activists is neither futile nor a criminal act statement of scientists says |
| 21 April 2023 | Galaxy admin training | Galaxy Admin Training from April 17th to 21st in Ghent, Belgium. |
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| 31 March 2023 | Using Galaxy & TIaaS to teach hands-on genome assembly and annotation | On Feb. 27 to Mar. 3, we (several VGP-associated instructors) used the UseGalaxy EU infrastructure to aid in teaching an online Physalia course of 40+ students how to assemble and annotate their own genome from their browser. |
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| 21 March 2023 | Evaluation of the current usage and future needs of Galaxy for microbial data analysis - We Need Your Help! | The microGalaxy community of practice would like to learn more about use-cases where Galaxy was beneficial, and also the barriers that prevent researchers from using Galaxy. The aim is to collectively find solutions to improve user experience and reduce barriers. To this end, we are launching a survey to reach out to, and learn from, the microbial research community. |
| 16 March 2023 | New Paper "Return of the Tbx5; lineage-tracing reveals ventricular cardiomyocyte-like precursors in the injured adult mammalian heart" | Siatra et al. have used the European Galaxy server to identify cell populations capable of cardiac regeneration that we will be able to trace and monitor |
| 15 March 2023 | Effortlessly navigate your Galaxy history with enhanced search options | Data searchability in the Galaxy History panel has been taken to new levels with the advanced search options that allow users to not only find items with more ease, but also find relations within items in their history. |
| 14 March 2023 | Enjoy a much faster user interface | Following up on our modernization efforts, we now introduce a single top-router written in Vue, which brings all our Vue components together in a seamless user experience, dramatically reducing the number of required page reloads when navigating the Galaxy user interface. |
| 8 March 2023 | Galaxy Mentor Network: Reset | We launched the [Galaxy Mentor Network](https://galaxy-mentor-network.netlify.app/) one year ago with the idea to onboard new members in the community. Now, one year later, we realize that we failed. We still believe in the power that the Galaxy Mentor Network, and, in that spirit, we would like to relaunch the Galaxy Mentor Network with a new matching process. |
| 5 March 2023 | New Paper "Comparative phylogenomic insights of KCS and ELO gene families in Brassica species indicate their role in seed development and stress responsiveness" | Khan et al. present a comparative genome-wide analysis and mode of evolution of Ketoacyl-CoA synthase (KCS) and Elongation Defective Elongase (ELO) gene families |
| 28 February 2023 | New Paper "Intrasexual cuticular hydrocarbon dimorphism in a wasp sheds light on hydrocarbon biosynthesis genes in Hymenoptera" | Moris et al. have used the European Galaxy server to exploit the intrasexual CHC dimorphism in a mason wasp, Odynerus spinipes |
| 27 February 2023 | We are striking! | usegalaxy.eu closes job-queue on March 3 to support climate strike |
| 24 February 2023 | New Paper "The Planemo toolkit for developing, deploying, and executing scientific data analyses in Galaxy and beyond" | Bray *et al.* outline the implementation and broad range of functionality of Planemo, a software development kit for designing, testing, and executing Galaxy tools, workflows, and training materials. |
| 23 February 2023 | Exporting structured data like RO-Crate or BioComputeObjects | Galaxy has a very powerful and extensible exporting framework that now can export RO-Crate and BioComputeObjects |
| 20 February 2023 | New Paper "Genome-wide deposition of 6-methyladenine in human DNA reduces the viability of HEK293 cells and directly influences gene expression" | Broche and colleagues have used the European Galaxy server to analyse the role of m6dA in human DNA |
| 20 February 2023 | TIaaS allows trainees’ jobs to be run preferentially and avoids long execution times, depending on the server load. By providing access to this service, the Galaxy Training Network ensured that TIaaS would be freely available to anyone and facilitated access to an extensive catalogue of FAIR training materials. | |
| 9 February 2023 | New Paper "Whole genome sequence analysis of the first reported isolate of Salmonella Agona carrying blaCTX-M-55 gene in Brazil" | Bertani et al. have used the European Galaxy server to analyse the whole genome sequence of Salmonella Agona carrying blaCTX-M-55 gene |
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| 7 February 2023 | Two Horizon Europe projects directed toward the development and deployment of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)—FAIR-EASE and EuroScienceGateway (ESG)—have agreed to closely cooperate over the next three years. | |
| 5 February 2023 | How tools are created and maintained in Galaxy | A short summary about Galaxy tools development, maintenance and deployment. |
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| 24 January 2023 | GPU-enabled JupyterLab enables interactive AI use-cases in Galaxy | Democratising GPU infrastructures by providing accelerated JuypterLab instances via Galaxy and combining them with HPC workflows |
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| 24 January 2023 | Simple and data privacy-aware publishing of genomic variance data from Galaxy to the Beacon project | Galaxy has gained a Beacon integration that enables users to publish genetic variance data conveniently via Beacon project |
| 23 January 2023 | ||
| 20 January 2023 | Accessibility in Galaxy 23.0 and beyond | Accessibility improvement Highlights for the upcoming 23.0 release, and a few words on accessibility in general |
| 19 January 2023 | Building a distributed compute network across Europe | The Work Package 3 of the EuroScienceGateway project |
| 12 January 2023 | Stimulate FAIR and reusable research with computational workflows | The Work Package 2 of the EuroScienceGateway project |
| 12 January 2023 | The Climate community within the EuroScienceGateway project | Climate Community Strategy for Work Package 5 |
| 9 January 2023 | The Materials Science community within the EuroScienceGateway project | One of the most recent adopters of the Galaxy platfrom |
| 4 January 2023 | New Paper "Multimodal epigenetic changes and altered NEUROD1 chromatin binding in the mouse hippocampus underlie FOXG1 syndrome" | Akol *et al.* analyzed mouse FOXG1 functions on the chromatin level, having processed the multiomics data set on the European Galaxy server. |
| 3 January 2023 | Galaxy is part of NFDI4Bioimage | |
| 3 January 2023 | New Paper "STAT3 signaling induced by the IL-6 family of cytokines modulates angiogenesis" | Rapp *et al.* investigated on IL-6 cytokines effects on angiogenesis invoking STAT3 signaling pathway, relying on the European Galaxy server |
| 20 December 2022 | New Paper "A panel of blood-derived miRNAs with a stable expression pattern as a potential pan-cancer detection signature" | Sabbaghian et al. used the European Galaxy server to identify the roles of miRNAs in cancer |
| 12 December 2022 | The Astronomy community and the EuroScienceGateway project | Towards harmonizing Open Data Practices in Astronomy with EuroScienceGateway community |
| 8 December 2022 | Building blocks for a sustainable operating model of the EuroScienceGateway | Work Package 4 of the EuroScienceGateway project |
| 8 December 2022 | The Biodiversity community and the EuroScienceGateway project | One of the early adopters to embrace Open Science best practices |
| 30 November 2022 | Slow Storage on EU | Storage bottleneck on usegalaxy.eu results in slow queueing times |
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| 24 November 2022 | Use-cases from early adopters to embrace Open Science best practices | Work Package 5 of the EuroScienceGateway project |
| 24 November 2022 | Introduction to the EuroScienceGateway project administration and project management | Work Package 1 of the EuroScienceGateway project |
| 21 November 2022 | Task-based history export tracking | New pull request from David López merged: Add task-based history export tracking |
| 20 November 2022 | Annual EOSC Symposium 14-17th November 2022 | The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) had its main EOSC annual event. Find photos and recordings here. |
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| 14 November 2022 | BGE - Kickoff meeting | The BGE project kick-off meeting was celebrated between November 14th and November 18th in Leiden. |
| 12 November 2022 | Amazing Twitter Post on Cake-based explanation of single cell RNA sequencing | Combining baking and research |
| 6 November 2022 | EuroScienceGateway - Kickoff meeting | The EuroScienceGateway project started officially with a 2 days kickoff meeting with all 17 partners |
| 5 November 2022 | The start of the EuroScienceGateway - an EOSC project | EuroScienceGateway will deliver a robust, scalable, seamlessly integrated open infrastructure for data-driven research |
| 4 November 2022 | Are you passionate about training in life sciences? The Freiburg Galaxy Team is looking for a team member who will develop, coordinate and implement training programs within international communities, especially via BioNT, a new multi-organization project funded by the European Commission, and via the Galaxy Training Network (GTN). | |
| 1 November 2022 | Impact on Galaxy of OpenSSL 3.0.x Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 ("Spooky SSL") | Official severity downgraded to HIGH, exploitability and impact to Galaxy is very low |
| 30 October 2022 | New Paper "Semi-automated assembly of high-quality diploid human reference genomes" | Jarvis et al. determined which combination of current genome sequencing and assembly approaches yield the most complete and accurate diploid genome assembly with minimal manual curation |
| 19 October 2022 | Research Data Management in Galaxy | How Galaxy manages your (meta)data |
| 17 October 2022 | Galaxy as a cross-EOSC platform | New scientific collaboration agreement between EOSC-Life and EOSC-Pillar |
| 14 October 2022 | Well-being and Mental Health Guideline | Publication of the Guideline |
| 12 October 2022 | Outcomes of the European Galaxy Days | The European Galaxy Community gathered in Freiburg to discuss recent and future Galaxy developments |
| 30 September 2022 | EOSC4Cancer Kick-off Meeting" | EOSC4Cancer has been launched |
| 28 September 2022 | Introducing the Galaxy Global Hub | Find all your Galaxy info in one website |
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| 10 August 2022 | The European Galaxy Team is hiring! | The Freiburg Galaxy Team is looking for a Systems Engineer/DevOps Engineer! |
| 6 July 2022 | New Paper "Creating a good learning and sharing environment for bioinformatics" | Tomas Klingström and J.I. Ohlsson have published a paper about the use of BioContainers, Galaxy, and the GTN for bioinformatics researchers. |
| 27 June 2022 | GCC2022: Registration open for Webinar mode | For those that won't attend in person, the GCC Organizing Committee is happy to announce a virtual webinar-like option |
| 23 June 2022 | Usegalaxy.eu has reached 50,000 registered users | Big thanks to everybody that has contributed to the success of UseGalaxy.eu and to each of the 50K users for using Galaxy! Next stop: 100K! |
| 21 June 2022 | Galaxy taking part @ Elixir All Hands 2022 | During 6-9th of June, members of the European Galaxy team travelled to Amsterdam to join the ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022 where we joined other colleagues from ELIXIR-DE. |
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| 28 April 2022 | Training Infrastructure Feedback from Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Lucille Delisle | After 2 years running the SIB "Galaxy Introduction for Life Scientists" course only online, we were super happy to stand in front of a crowd and meet again the students in person. |
| 20 April 2022 | Towards a sustainable storage, enabling co-financing of public infrastructure | Research groups and networks can include their own storage into the European Galaxy server and decide about quota and data policies. |
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| 10 November 2021 | Access data from the GTN in a more accessible, API based way. | |
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| 1 October 2021 | Teaching bioinformatics through blood, mucus and tears | Watch out for that My Little Pony baby stroller. |
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| 10 September 2021 | Annual reports 2020: ELIXIR and IFB | The ELIXIR and IFB annual reports for 2020 are out, and they highlight Galaxy work throughout. |
| 24 August 2021 | Updates from the ELIXIR Galaxy Community | An updated ELIXIR Galaxy website includes our goals, with a special emphasis on interactions with the local, domain-specific and global communities; plus much more |
| 24 August 2021 | Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS) is sponsored by EOSC-Life | Anyone providing training is eligible to request the use of this service. |
| 13 July 2021 | Highlights from the Galaxy Community Conference 2021 | 399 participants from 55 countries |
| 28 June 2021 | Open Life Science program & the Galaxy community: involvement in OLS-3 and invitation to apply to the next cohort | Open Life Science (OLS) is an online mentoring & training program |
| 28 May 2021 | Webinars: Galaxy Resources for ... | Watch them now. |
| 20 May 2021 | The first Spanish tutorial is live! Galaxy has always had google-translated tutorials, but we are now embarking on a project to assess the learning experience with human-translated, vs google-translated, bioinformatics tutorials. | |
| 14 May 2021 | Two New Teaching Papers using Galaxy | Two hand-in-hand teaching papers have been published this week using Galaxy as a teaching platform. |
| 4 May 2021 | May 2021 Galactic News | GCC2021 and James Taylor Video Deadlines Extended, plus a whole lot more. |
| 4 May 2021 | GCC2021 Abstract and Fellowship Submission, and Early Registration Deadlines Extended | Talks & Fellowships due 17 May; Poster/Demos due 14 June |
| 30 April 2021 | Outcomes of the workshop 'SARS-CoV-2 Data Analysis and Monitoring with Galaxy' | Building capacity, both in the analysis and data management sides of SARS-CoV-2 |
| 19 April 2021 | The Galaxy community involved in several ELIXIR Implementation Studies | |
| 14 April 2021 | GCC2021 Abstract Submission are Open | Abstracts are due May 17 |
| 14 April 2021 | GCC2021 Registration is Open | Please join us at Galaxy's annual community gathering |
| 14 April 2021 | GCC2021 Conference Fellowships | Apply by May 17 |
| 12 April 2021 | April 2021 Galactic News | GCC2021 Abstracts and Registration are open, plus lots more. |
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| 17 March 2021 | March 2021 Galactic News | New Featured and Community News sections; new events, releases, training, and lots of videos |
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| 16 March 2021 | 2021 Google Summer of Code | Galaxy is participating |
| 10 March 2021 | Successful use cases from EOSC-Life using Galaxy | The first round of EOSC-Life demonstrators has driven eight successful use cases, three of them using Galaxy. |
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| 14 February 2021 | Massive open online education party: GTN Smörgåsbord | Starting Monday the 15th of February, the Galaxy Training Network (GTN) is running a global Galaxy online course |
| 8 February 2021 | February 2021 Galactic News | Events, platform news, blog posts, videos, pubs, jobs and releases |
| 4 February 2021 | 2021 Galaxy Community Conference will be virtual, global, and affordable | And globally accessible |
| 30 January 2021 | New and updated CNV and Variant Calling tools | on UseGalaxy.eu and in the Toolshed |
| 22 January 2021 | Variant Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Data (Jan 2021 update) | January 2021 update |
| 18 January 2021 | UseGalaxy.fr is hiring | |
| 7 January 2021 | January 2021 Galactic News | Events, platform news, blog posts, videos, pubs, jobs and releases |
| 22 December 2020 | Open Life Science program & the Galaxy community: involvement in OLS-2 and invitation to apply to the next cohort | involvement in OLS-2 and invitation to apply to the next cohort |
| 8 December 2020 | December 2020 Galactic News | And what a month it is |
| 16 November 2020 | Biohackathon Europe 2020 | The Galaxy community has participated in several projects |
| 3 November 2020 | November 2020 Galactic News | JXTX Foundation, Events, Platforms, Jobs, Pubs, ... |
| 29 October 2020 | The first Paper Cuts Community Fest was a success! | So we will do this again in November! |
| 22 October 2020 | The EOSC-Life newsletter is out! | Galaxy training, CellProfiler, and more |
| 22 October 2020 | More than 8000 packages/containers in Bioconda/BioContainers from more than 1000 contributors | from 1000+ contributors |
| 14 October 2020 | Training Infrastructure Feedback from Leighton Pritchard | Addressing challenges the global coronavirus pandemic |
| 7 October 2020 | October 2020 Galactic News | Events & JTech, platforms, blog posts, tutorials, pubs, releases, ... |
| 23 September 2020 | EOSC-Life Open Calls | Two funding opportunities are now open in EOSC-Life. |
| 1 September 2020 | September 2020 Galactic News | BCC2020 & GCC2021, events, platforms, blog posts, tutorials, pubs, releases, obs ... |
| 22 August 2020 | 3 steps to get your tool into Galaxy - A real-world example | A real-world example |
| 1 July 2020 | July 2020 Galactic News | BCC2020, SRA, Events, Platforms, Training, Jobs, ... |
| 11 June 2020 | June 2020 Galactic News | James Taylor Foundation, BCC2020, Galaxy+SRA, Events, Platforms, ... |
| 4 May 2020 | May 2020 Galactic News | James Taylor, BCC2020, COVID-19 Response, and more |
| 3 April 2020 | James Taylor | 1979 - 2020 |
| 6 March 2020 | de.NBI Training Infrastructure Feedback from Helena Rasche | and was wildly successful |
| 27 February 2020 | TIaaS Calendar and Stats site | Training Infrastructure as a Service |
| 11 February 2020 | Towards a European network of Galaxy resources | |
| 8 January 2020 | January 2020 Galactic News | Events, Pubs, Blogs, Platforms, Tutorials, Doc, and Happy New Year too |
| 8 January 2020 | Galaxy Training Survey | We need your input on preparing and giving Galaxy Trainings |
| 9 December 2019 | December 2019 Galactic News | Events, Pubs, Blogs, Platforms, Tutorials, Doc, Jobs, Releases, and Platypi too. |
| 2 December 2019 | 10,000 users, 6,370,000 jobs and 11,900,000 datasets | A big thank you to all our users and people that have contributed to this project! |
| 12 November 2019 | November 2019 Galactic News | Events! Pubs! Platforms! Jobs! Releases! |
| 2 November 2019 | Training update from Tomas Klingström | Agricultural Sciences collaboration between Swedish University of Agricultural sciences researchers and the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa |
| 2 October 2019 | October 2019 Galactic News | Events! Pubs! Platforms! Jobs! Doc! Tutorials! And some other news too. |
| 30 August 2019 | September 2019 Galactic News | Events! Pubs! Platforms! Jobs! Doc! Tutorials! Releases! And some other news too. |
| 6 August 2019 | Galaxy Community Conference - a brief summary! | A brief summary |
| 1 August 2019 | August 2019 Galactic News | GCC2019 is done; BCC2020 is coming |
| 28 June 2019 | July 2019 Galactic News | GCC2019 is here! (And other new stuff too) |
| 17 June 2019 | TIaaS Queue Status | using UseGalaxy.eu’s Training infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS). |
| 13 June 2019 | Native support for Elixir-AAI in Galaxy v.19.05 | the European Galaxy Server hosted by Elixir Germany is now ready to accept logins from users using their Elixir AAI identity for authentication.. |
| 3 June 2019 | June 2019 Galactic News | GCC2019 registration / Poster/Demo abstracts / sponsors, GTN CoFest, Platforms, Pubs, Jobs, Blog!, Training, Tools, Releases and more! |
| 6 May 2019 | May 2019 Galactic News | GCC2019 registration / Poster/Demo abstracts / sponsors, GTN CoFest, Platforms, Pubs, Jobs, Blog!, Training, Tools, Releases and more! |
| 3 April 2019 | April 2019 Galactic News | GCC2019 registration and abstract submission, Platforms, Pubs, Jobs, Blog!, Training, Tools, Releases and more! |
| 4 March 2019 | March 2019 Galactic News | GalaxyAdmins, GCC2019 Childcare sponsors, Platforms, Pubs, Jobs, Blog!, Training, Tools, Releases and more! |