The September 2018 Galactic News is here! This is a summary of what is going on in the Galaxy community. Here's what's happening:

• Events

  • 2018 SACNAS Workshops
  • European Galaxy Days, 19-20 November, Freiburg, Germany
  • All upcoming events

• New:

  • 80 publications
  • Galactic Blog entry: Contributor of the Month: Carrie Ganote
  • Public Galaxy Server News: epiGeEC and MetaCentrum
  • ToolShed contributions
  • Hub and Documentation updates
  • CloudBridge v1 has been released!
  • Releases
• And other news too

If you have anything to add to next month's newsletter, then please send it to outreach@galaxyproject.org.

Events

As always, there is a lot going on in the Galaxy:

2018 SACNAS Pre-conference Workshops

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If you will be anywhere near San Antonio, Texas on October 10 then please consider participating in one of these SACNAS preconference workshops. You don't need to be registered for the 2018 SACNAS meeting to attend. Everyone is eligible and the workshops are free.

Software and Data Carpentry

Data Platforms for Life Science Researchers

Registration is free but space is limited. You are strongly encouraged to register soon. Both workshops are held October 10, the day before SACNAS starts.

Register Now

Plese note: The Galaxy Community Fund is augmenting SACNAS Travel Scholarships awards for the first ~ 28 scholarship recipients that register for these workshops. The additional funds will cover an extra night's lodging for scholarship recipients, enabling you to arrive the day before the workshops. Funds are limited, and once the funds are allocated, they are gone. (You must have received a SACNAS Travel Scholarship to be eligible.)

European Galaxy Days, 19-20 November, Freiburg, Germany

European Galaxy Days will be held 19 and 20 November 2018 in Freiburg, Germany. 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.

The event is free and registration is open. See the event home page for more.

Upcoming events

These and other Galaxy related events are coming up in the next few months:

Date	Topic/Event	Venue/Location	Contact
September 17th 2018	6th Galaxy high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data analysis workshop	University of Freiburg, Freiburg Germany	Freiburg Galaxy Team
September 18th 2018	Variant detection using Galaxy	QFAB, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia	training@qfab.org
September 25th 2018	Gateways 2018	University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States	Katherine Lawrence
October 2nd 2018	Genome assembly using Galaxy	QFAB, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia	training@qfab.org
October 4th 2018	ELIXIR CZ Proteomics Workshop 2018	IOCB AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic	Björn Grüning
October 8th 2018	Workflow4Experimenters 2018 Course	Pasteur Institute, Paris, France	Gildas Le Corguillé
October 10th 2018	SACNAS 2018 Pre-Conference Workshops	2018 SACNAS, San Antonio, Texas, United States	Camille Avestruz, Tracy Teal, Blake Joyce, Dave Clements, Joslynn Lee
October 15th 2018	Galaxy @ eResearch Australasia	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Presenters
October 15th 2018	Analyse RNAseq sous Galaxy	Station marine de Roscoff, France	christine.mantecon @upmc.fr
October 16th 2018	Bioinformatique - Analyse avancée de séquences	Bordeaux, France	Intervenants
October 17th 2018	Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine using Galaxy: see it, do it, teach it	VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Celia van Gelder
October 18th 2018	Introduction to Galaxy & the Genomics Virtual Laboratory	University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Melbourne Bioinformatics
October 23rd 2018	Introduction to Galaxy Australia: Differential Gene Expression from Bacterial RNA-seq Data	Universities: Melbourne, Queensland, Southern Queensland, Sydney, New South Wales, Adelaide, James Cook, Monash, Tasmania; Australia
November 12th 2018	BioHackathon 2018 Paris	Campus des Berges de Seine, Paris, France	Bérénice Batut, Hervé Ménager
November 13th 2018	Galaxy for NGS Data Analysis	UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States, and Online	Weihong Yan
November 14th 2018	Analyse des données RNA-Seq sous l'environnement Galaxy	Lyon, France	contact@biosciencesco.fr
November 19th 2018	RNA-seq analysis in Galaxy	National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States	mo@galaxyproject.org
November 19th 2018	European Galaxy Days	Freiburg, Germany	Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Björn Grüning, Jean-François Dufayard
December 6th 2018	Molecular Dynamics and Analysis using BRIDGE	Cape Town, South Africa	Organizers
July 1st 2019	2019 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2019)	Freiburg, Germany	Organizers

Publications

80 new publications referencing, using, extending, and implementing Galaxy were added to the Galaxy Publication Library in August.

Highlighted Publications

Four Galactic and Stellar publications.

• ゲノム情報解析の再現性と再利用性を向上させる情報基盤の設計, thesis by 山中 遼太
• 次世代シーケンサーデータの解析手法 第 11 回 統合データ解析環境 Galaxy, by , 大田 達郎, 寺田 朋子, 清水 謙多郎 , 門田 幸二, Japanese Journal of Lactic Acid Bacteria
• The epiGenomic Efficient Correlator (epiGeEC) tool allows fast comparison of user datasets with thousands of public epigenomic datasets, by Jonathan Laperle, Simon Hébert-Deschamps, Joanny Raby, David Anderson de Lima Morais, Michel Barrette, David Bujold, Charlotte Bastin, Marc-Antoine Robert, Jean-François Nadeau, Marie Harel, Alexei Nordell-Markovits, Alain Veilleux, Guillaume Bourque, Pierre-Étienne Jacques, Bioinformatics, bty655, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty655
• Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences, by Björn Grüning, Ryan Dale, Andreas Sjödin, Brad A. Chapman, Jillian Rowe, Christopher H. Tomkins-Tinch, Renan Valieris, Johannes Köster & The Bioconda Team

Publication Topics

Who's Hiring

The Galaxy is expanding! Please help it grow.

• Développement d’interopérabilité entre ressources bioinformatique, IFB, France
• Bioinformaticien/biostatisticien biologiste, Phylogene S.A, Bernis, France
• M2 : Diversité bactérienne associée aux microalgues toxiques (metabarcoding), IFREMER Centre Bretagne, Plouzané, France
• Freiburg Galaxy Team has open positions, Freiburg, Germany
• The Blankenberg Lab in the Genomic Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute is hiring postdocs.
• Galaxy Project is hiring software engineers and postdocs at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Have a Galaxy-related opening? Send it to outreach@galaxyproject.org and we'll put it in the Galaxy News feed and include it in next month's update.

Contributor of the Month: Carrie Ganote

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There is one new Galactic Blog entry:

• Contributor of the Month: Carrie Ganote, By Björn Grüning

Public Galaxy Server News

There are over 100 publicly accessible Galaxy servers and several Galaxy services. One of each were added in the past month.

epiGeEC

epiGeEC compares user-provided epigenomic datasets with thousands of public datasets in a few minutes. It can also directly compare user’s datasets. This server is provided by the Genetics and genomics Analysis Platform (GenAP) project, thereby leveraging Compute Canada's advanced research computing infrastructure. A tutorial is available and anonymous access and account creation are both supported."

See the epiGeEC directory entry for more.

MetaCentrum - Czechia

MetaCentrum supports Galaxy instances on the Czech National Grid Infrastructure (NGI), that are available to employees and students of research and academic organizations of Czechia and for scientific purposes only. Use requires registering for an account.

See the Metacentrum directory entry for more.

Public Servers in Publications

We tag papers that use, mention, implement or extend public Galaxy Servers. Here are the counts for the past month's publications:

Hub and Doc Updates

• The Galaxy publication library is now integrated into the Pan-Galactic search page, thanks to Dannon Baker. Search for something and click on the pub library tab.
• Data Manager XML syntax description updated by Peter van Heusden
• Hub Editing Guidelines updated by Mo Heydarian
• There was a massive Hub infrastructure update by Dannon Baker, but it's one of those you won't even notice.

Tools

ToolShed Contributions

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Tool Shed contributions in August 2018.

Releases

New additions to the Galaxy Community.

CloudBridge

CloudBridge v1 has been released!

• One interface to major Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers
• CloudBridge v1 supports Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack clouds
• Thanks to help from the AnswerALS project and Microsoft, Azure now has complete implementation of all CloudBridge capabilities

For other features and changes contained in this release, please take a look at the CHANGELOG.

BioMAJ2Galaxy

BioMAJ2Galaxy does the following actions on a Galaxy server:

• Add new items to data libraries
• Remove items from data libraries
• Add new items to tool data tables using data managers
• Remove items from tool data tables

These scripts are primarily designed to be used as BioMAJ post processes, but they can probably used directly from the command line if you need to.

Galaxy Docker Image 18.05

The Galaxy Docker project has a matching release, for Galaxy 18.05. The release features the 18.05 enhancements.

And the rest ...

Other Galaxy packages that haven't had a release in the past four months can be found on GitHub.

Other News

• CellOrganizer for Galaxy is a set of tools that enables users to train generative models of the cell from microscopy images, analyze trained generative models, and synthesize instances using CellOrganizer, a tool for learning and managing generative models of cell organization directly from images.