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July 2020 Galactic News

BCC2020, SRA, Events, Platforms, Training, Jobs, ...

In the July 2020 issue

Galaxy News

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BCC2020 Starts July 17

BCC2020
[BOSC + GCC = BCC2020](https://bcc2020.github.io/)

The 2020 Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020) brings together the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) and Galaxy Community Conference. If you are working in data intensive life science research then there is no better event for sharing your work, and learning from other researchers addressing the challenges of modern data driven biology. BCC2020 will be held July 17-26, and offer 2 days of training, a 3 day meeting, and a 4 day CollaborationFest.

Half off
[Register by July 10 and Save 50%](https://bcc2020.github.io/Registration/)

BCC2020 early registration ends July 10. Registering early saves 50% off of the full rates and starts $3 per training session and $12 for the three day meeting.

All registration ends on July 15.

So get on it.

Half off

If the registration rates for BCC2020 are a barrier to your participation, and you are based in a low, lower-middle, or middle-upper income country (as defined by the World Bank) then you are encouraged to apply for a BCC2020 Galaxy Fellowship. Applications are due July 5.

Gather a community at BCC2020
BoF Proposals due July 10

Birds of a Feather (BoFs) are informal, self-organized meetups focused on specific topics. They are a great way to meet other like-minded community members and have an in-depth discussion on a topic of interest.

Any BCC2020 participant is welcome to propose a BoF by July 10! BoFs will be scheduled right before and after the main meeting day in both hemispheres.

GalaxyWorks
[Silver Sponsor: GalaxyWorks](https://galaxyworks.io/)

GalaxyWorks is a new company providing commercial support, hosting and management, and tool wrapping and custom development for Galaxy. See their announcement to the Galaxy Community for more. If you are in the business of life science, GalaxyWorks is here to help.

Please welcome GalaxyWorks as a new Silver Sponsor of BCC2020.

Galaxy Training at BCC2020
[Training at BCC2020](https://bcc2020.sched.com/)

There are 60 training sessions, covering 36 topics (18 with a Galaxy emphasis), in 2 hemispheres, all adding up to 9000 minutes, or 150 hours of live instruction.

Galaxy topics:

  • Introduction to Using Galaxy: East, West
  • From stars to constellations: Scaling analyses in Galaxy: East, West
  • Adding Fun(ction) to Microbiome Analysis: Metatranscriptomics and Metaproteomics Workflows in Galaxy: West
  • Proteomic data analysis in Galaxy: West
  • Import, handle, visualize and analyze biodiversity data in Galaxy: East, West
  • Processing of Single Cell RNA-Seq Data with Galaxy: East, West
  • Introduction to Machine Learning: East, West
  • High-throughput molecular dynamics with Galaxy: East
  • RNA-Seq analysis with Galaxy: East, West (w/ AskOmics)
  • Galaxies for Crop Science: East
  • Getting your hands on Climate data: East, West
  • Scripting Galaxy with BioBlend: East, West
  • Introduction to Galaxy Administration I, II, III: East
  • Galaxy Code Architecture: East, West
  • Reference data with CVMFS and remote jobs with Pulsar: East, West
  • Fit your tools into any platform with Bioconda and BioContainers: West
  • Train the Galaxy Trainer: East, West

You can also learn about Git & GitHub, Reactome, R & Bioconductor, InterMine, Glow & Apache Spark, Dockstore, shell, Bionitio, CWL/WDL/Janis/GATK, community, JBrowse, education, Nextflow, and Terra!

BCC2020 is Accessible
BCC2020 Talk Schedule is Up!

The full BCC2020 talk schedule is now online


Galaxy and the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA)

Galaxy ⇄ SRA
The new Galaxy-SRA Connector

UseGalaxy.org and the NIH Sequence Read Archive are now directly connected, enabling researchers to work with SRA data available from NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/) more easily within the Galaxy framework. This connection was presented in a webinar on June 24. Slides and video from the webinar and a GTN tutorial (see below) are now available. This functionality will be included in the 2020.05 release.

RFI on new SRA formats
RFI: Use of Cloud Resources and New File Formats for SRA

NIH has released a request for information (RFI) to solicit community feedback on new proposed Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data formats. Learn more and share your thoughts at https://go.usa.gov/xvhdr.

The response deadline is July 17th, 2020. We encourage you all to share with your colleagues and networks, and respond if you are an SRA submitter or data user.

More Upcoming Events

The coronavirus outbreak has impacted BCC2020, and just about every other event for the rest of the year too. Most events through the end of August have been postponed or moved online. We have updated our list of events to reflect what we know. Some highlights:

Galaxy Developer Roundtable
[Galaxy Developer Roundtable](/community/devroundtable/)

This new bi-weekly forum is an opportunity for presenters (Galaxy users, developers, admins) to engage with the Galaxy developer community interactively. If you have something you want to present then please submit your idea at least a day in advance. See you (every other) Thursday.

Galaxy @ ISMB 2020
[Galaxy @ ISMB 2020](/events/2020-ismb/))

ISMB 2020 has gone virtual and Galaxy is going with it: Check out

  • a tutorial,
  • a COSI keynote,
  • four other talks, and
  • eight posters
5 Workshops

There are four upcoming Galaxy Australia workshops offered by QCIF on Galaxy, RNA-Seq Analysis, and Metagenomics. The first one is 14 July.

Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events

There are

And material from some recent past events is now available:

Galaxy Platforms News

The Galaxy Platform Directory lists resources for easily running your analysis on Galaxy, including publicly available servers, cloud services, and containers and VMs that run Galaxy. Here's the recent platform news we know about:

[Galaxy-SynBioCAD](/use/synbiocad/)

Galaxy-SynBioCAD

The Galaxy-SynBioCAD server provides a suite of interoperable and standardized tools for designing pathways from the design specification (choice of the compound, strain) to the DNA parts to be assembled. SMBL is used for strain and pathway info, and SBOL is used for genetic layouts. The server comes with a tutorial, FAQ, email support and a QuickStart guide.

[ARIAWeb](/use/ariaweb/)

ARIAWeb

ARIAWeb supports automated NOE assignment and NMR structure calculation using ARIA (Ambiguous Restraints for Iterative Assignment). ARIAweb does not look like Galaxy, but it uses the Galaxy@Pasteur server for data analysis and workflow execution. ARIAWeb has email support and a mailing list.

[UseGalaxy.*](/usegalaxy/) News

UseGalaxy.*

Doc, Hub, and Training Updates

[Custos doc update](/authnz/config/oidc/idps/custos/)

The documentation for using Custos in Galaxy got a major update from Juleen Graham and Enis Afgan.

Custos is an NSF-funded project that provides science gateways such as Galaxy with single sign-on, group management, and secret management. Custos authentication for Galaxy is now live on test.galaxyproject.org.

Custos
[Galaxy Training Search](https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/search)

Saskia Hiltemann has added the much requested site-wide search to the Galaxy Training Materials. Find everything you are interested in, e.g. all covid19 tutorials

Search in the new GTN!
[Nucleoli segmentation and feature extraction using CellProfiler](https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/imaging/tutorials/tutorial-CP/tutorial.html)

By Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Jean-Karim Hériché.

Create a workflow that downloads a selection of images from the Image Data Resource, and uses CellProfiler to segment the nuclei and nucleoli. And then extract and export features at three different levels: image, nucleus, nucleolus.

IDR to Cell Profiler
[GTN Profiles](https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame)

Helena Rasche implemented GTN trainer profile pages, which document their contributions to the Galaxy Training Materials. Check yours out!

Picture of a GTN profile
[Updated: Galaxy Server Administration Tutorials](https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/admin/)

This set of tutorials was updated by Helena Rasche to incorporate feedback and discussion with students, during the most recent Galaxy Administration Training in March 2020. The updates covered topics including Ansible, using clusters, CVMFS, external authentication, distributed compute, tool management, quotas, and job metrics, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Thank you for the feedback!
[Gitter Chat Support in GTN](https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/proteomics/tutorials/maxquant-label-free/tutorial.html)

Thanks to an update by Saskia Hiltemann, GTN tutorials now show a link to Gitter chat help at the bottom of the screen. Authors can configure this to go to topic or tutorial specific chat rooms, or default to the main GTN room.

Seeking chat?
[Updated: ATAC-Seq data analysis](https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/epigenetics/tutorials/atac-seq/tutorial.html)

This tutorial was upgraded by Lucille Delisle to use the latest version of pyGenomeTracks to make publication-quality figures and successfully used in the first official SIB galaxy Training course.

pyGenomeTrack output

Who's Hiring

[Postdoctoral Pharmacology Fellowship](https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9cd29813c250492d)

The US Food and Drug Administration has an opening for a Postdoctoral Pharmacology Fellowship in Silver Spring, Maryland.

FDA
[Data Management Usability Officer](https://vibvzw.jobsoid.com/j/27205/data-management-usability-officer)

VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium

... We are building on the internationally used platform FAIRDOMhub for data management, and Galaxy (https://www.usegalaxy.be and https://usegalaxy.eu) for data analysis.

VIB
[Senior Software Developer](https://boards.greenhouse.io/blackcanyonconsulting/jobs/4013069003)

Black Canyon Consulting at NCBI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Black Canyon Consulting at NCBI

Galactic Blog Activity

[Multi-tenant, multi-project GVL with Galaxy, Jupyter, Terminal, and RStudio](/blog/2020-06-gvl5-beta3/)

By Alexandru Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Enis Afgan.

The GVL Beta 3 release features complete analysis on one platform, including training and collaboration.

![GVL Beta 3](../../blog/2020-02-gvl5-beta/gvl-logo-landscape-2018.svg)
[Go global and go affordable](https://eventfund.codeforscience.org/go-global-and-go-affordable/)

By Emily Lescak of Code for Science & Society

A conversation with Dave Clements about moving BCC2020 from an in-person to a virtual event, and the opportunities that move enabled.

Code for Science & Society

Releases

See the GVL Beta 3 release described in the blog (and above).

[Galaxy 20.05](/news/2020-06-galaxy-release-20-05/)

See

Features:

  • Many new Interactive Tools
  • Data Tables can now be backed by refgenie
  • Tool Shed is now Python3 ready, ending a 4 year effort to get to Python 3.
  • The Workflow Editor and Workflow Run Form have been re-written in Vue.js.
  • Faster startup: Galaxy now caches expanded tool documents, delays creating the tool search index until after startup and creates search indexes incrementally.
Galaxy
[Galaxy Workflow Executor 0.2.1](https://pypi.org/project/galaxy-workflow-executor/0.2.1/)

Execute workflows on Galaxy using a command line interface, and YAML to specify inputs and parameters.

Galaxy Workflow Executor

Publications

We did not curate recent publications this month. We just ran out of time. We probably won't get to them until after BCC either. However, the next time we curate papers, we will hit 10,000 publications. Thanks for using (and citing) Galaxy.