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23 May 2025Training Infrastructure as a service (TIaaS) Feedback from Dr. Janne M. ToivonenThanks to TIaaS, our RNA-Seq workshops run smoothly—no more delays, just effective hands-on learning.
18 May 2025Training Infrastructure Feedback from the MSc Program „Translational Medical Research“ (TMR), Medical Faculty of Mannheim, University of Heidelberg; WS 2024/25From sequencing to R scripting—TIaaS helped us turn RNA-Seq into a hands-on learning success for future medical researchers.
15 May 2025Streamlining Bioinformatics Training with Galaxy TIaaS: A Wet Lab Success StoryNo more setup headaches—TIaaS lets us deliver scalable, hands-on bioinformatics training that just works.
12 May 2025Empowering Genomics Education with Galaxy TIaaSTIaaS and Galaxy are transforming how we teach genomics—making hands-on bioinformatics accessible to every student, no coding required.
8 May 2025Empowering Wet Lab Scientists with NGS Analysis Skills Without Coding BarriersTeaching NGS to wet lab scientists got a whole lot easier once I discovered TIaaS and the Galaxy platform.
14 April 2025Poster session ESSI2.4 at EGU General Assembly 2025 in Vienna, Austria, 27 April–2 May 2025EGU25-2605 Posters on site ESSI2.15
11 April 2025ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025
10 April 2025Galaxy Job Radar: Making Galaxy More Accessible to UsersVisualizing Galaxy computations to help users understand the Galaxy ecosystem and provide administrators with tools to analyze computational progress.
7 April 2025AquaINFRA, EOSC, and Galaxy: Co-Designing FAIR Services for Aqua ScienceAquaINFRA project is going to use the Galaxy platform as the central component of their Virtual Research Environment (VRE).
2 April 2025Highlights from the Galaxy Hackathon in Brest, France!Collaboration, innovation, and waves of creativity—Galaxy dives into data at the FAIR-EASE Hackathon in Brest!
2 April 2025eLabFTW integrationBring data to Galaxy straight from the lab.
24 March 2025Paper Highlight: “Hydrogen Radical Chemistry at High-Symmetry {2Fe2S} Centers Probed Using a Muonium Surrogate”Muon spectroscopy (μSR) experiments and simulations on materials for energy applications
18 March 2025Galaxy’s contributions to Genome Assembly and Annotation: Advancing Genomic ScienceKnow how Galaxy is contributing towards Genome Assembly and Annotation with cutting-edge tools, global biodiversity projects, and training initiatives
17 March 2025

Galaxy meets Onedata — distributed storage for science

Galaxy now features comprehensive integration with Onedata — a distributed data management platform. Users gain more options regarding their data sources (Bring Your Own Data) and storage locations (Bring Your Own Storage).
10 March 2025Freiburg is hosting its 20th HTS-WorkshopTime to celebrate! Freiburg is hosting its 20th HTS Workshop this March of 2025
4 March 2025Highlights of the NFDI4Bioimage All-Hands-Meeting!Progress, possibilities, and the future: Our journey at the NFDI4Bioimage continues!
27 February 2025Brief summary of the Research Data Management with RSpace and Galaxy meetingMeeting Dr. Mathes from RSpace, the Galaxy Freiburg team explored new ways to streamline research data management.
14 February 2025Molecular Biology of Plants conference (MBP 2025)Talk entitled DataPLANT, MAdLand, and Galaxy: Tools and Resources for Plant Research
12 February 2025TabPFN: Foundation Model for Tabular Data in GalaxyFast machine learning method for making predictions on any tabular data
29 January 2025EuroScienceGateway Project: Testing the deployment of Galaxy and Pulsar on the EOSC EU NodeDeploy your own Galaxy and Pulsar instances on the EOSC EU Node
24 January 2025Information security management systems of the University of Freiburg recertified by TÜV SÜD
20 January 2025Galaxy instance for sensitive data running in isolated network environmentGDPR-compliant Galaxy clone in isolated environment
30 December 2024The annual report of the Freiburg Galaxy team 2024In this post we summarized the activities and achievements of the Freiburg Galaxy team in 2024.
3 December 2024Galaxy participation at the EUDAT Conference 2024Presenting Galaxy new features at the EUDAT Conference 2024
23 November 2024Enhancing the Galaxy Italian Community: Italy's National Galaxy Server
8 November 2024Biohackathon Europe 2024: A successful collaborative effort to develop workflows for FAIR Image Analysis using GalaxyAt BioHackathon Europe 2024 in Barcelona, a group of FAIR enthusiasts work on development of image analysis workflows using the Galaxy.
21 October 2024EuroScienceGateway at the EOSCxNFDI joint symposium Berlin 2024Presenting EuroScienceGateway, Galaxy, and GTN at the joint symposium of EOSC and NFDI 2024
10 October 2024Freiburg Galaxy team at the EGI 2024Members 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 2024Expanding the Galaxy platform to materials science workflows at STFCNew Opportunities for Better User Group Software (NOBUGS 2024)
1 October 2024MAdLand computational resources for the Plant communityThe department of Molecular Plant Sciences presented the open, FAIR, and free tools and resources available for the plant research data analysis and data management developed in the MAdLand context.
20 September 2024Bring Your Own Storage with GalaxyConnect Galaxy with external storage resources easily
3 August 2024WorkflowHub Publishers and Journal ForumMeeting Summary from EuroScienceGateway's WorkflowHub Publishers and Journal Forum
19 July 2024GCC2024 Meeting ReportDiscover the highlights from GCC2024, where the Galaxy community gathered in Brno to share insights, innovations, and collaborations.
17 July 2024Traefik Reverse Proxy for High AvailabliltyA reverse proxy and loadbalancer for two headnode setup at Galaxy Europe
1 July 2024Galaxy Community Conference 2024 - a brief summary from the Freiburg Galaxy Team!A brief summary from the Freiburg Galaxy Team for GCC 2024
20 June 2024EOSC Coordination Meeting, Brussels, BelgiumThe Horizon Europe EOSC project EuroScienceGateway attended the EOSC coordination meeting
11 June 2024

Applying the Galaxy platform to XAS use cases

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 2024The Galaxy Europe team at the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2024The Galaxy Europe team has participated in the ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2024 in Uppsala, Sweden.
3 June 2024

All GTN training data are now automatically mirrored via Onedata

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
29 May 2024EGI Check-in now available as login option in UseGalaxy.euEuroScienceGateway project enables EGI users in UseGalaxy.eu
28 May 2024Develop and engage: Sustainable software tools for large-scale facilities using the Galaxy platformTalk on Galaxy tools for muon experiments and catalysis research at the CECAM conference
27 May 2024All GTN training data in one basketProviding effortless access to GTN training data via Onedata
20 May 2024EuroScienceGateway project: Easy deployment of ARC endpoints with Infrastructure ManagerDeploy ARC endpoints in the EGI Federated Cloud easily with Infrastructure Manager
28 April 2024Poster 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 2024Using the Galaxy Platform in Large Scale ExperimentsThe 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.
12 April 2024An earth system case study at the EGU 2024A Galaxy workflow presented during the European Geoscience Union
29 February 2024Initial EuroScienceGateway workflows published in WorkflowHubWorkflows covering astronomy, biodiversity, earth science and genomics published in WorkflowHub together with onboarding guide
27 February 2024Horizon Europe project EOSC EuroScienceGateway at EOSC Winter School 2024
6 February 2024The start of OSCARS - an EOSC projectGalaxy Europe being part of the new 'Open Science Clusters' Action for Research & Society' (OSCARS)
4 February 2024Satellite data for earth sciencesJupyterlabs and Notebooks for earth, environment, and climate sciences
30 December 2023The annual report of the Freiburg Galaxy team 2023In this post we summarized the activities and achievements of the Freiburg Galaxy team in 2023.
23 December 2023Galaxy Single-cell Community: Year in ReviewThe Galaxy Single-cell Community provides a 2023 review!
22 December 2023EuroScienceGateway Work Package 3: first year achievements
14 December 2023Galaxy Europe has been added as a new ELIXIR RIRusegalaxy.eu is now an ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource!
12 December 2023

[GTN news] Tutorial Feature: Easier launching of WorkflowHub & Dockstore Workflows

29 November 2023Inference using a publicly available pre-trained AI model (BioModels) in GalaxyUse a Galaxy tool for making prediction on test data using publicly available pre-trained AI model (BioModels) served via a Docker container
29 November 2023New Paper "Transformer-based tool recommendation system in Galaxy"
20 November 2023

[GTN news] Update: Workflow List now searches WorkflowHub.eu, advanced query syntax

14 November 2023"Run on Galaxy" button in WorkflowHubFind solutions and templates in WorkflowHub, immediately import to Galaxy on a click
14 November 2023AquaINFRA - welcome to EuroScienceGatewayA new community AquaINFRA joins the WP5 of European Science Gateway project
8 November 2023EuroScienceGateway project: new EGI Check-in and WLCG IAM backends available in python-social-authPython-social-auth release 4.5.0 includes two new backends contributed by EuroScienceGateway
31 October 2023EuroScienceGateway project: Easy deployment of Pulsar endpoints with Infrastructure ManagerDeploy Pulsar endpoints in the EGI Federated Cloud easily with Infrastructure Manager
30 October 2023An update on Galaxy Genome AnnotationGalaxy as a platform for the annotation of genomes
30 October 2023bwHPC SymposiumIntroducing Galaxy: A new cloud and HPC gateway for data-driven computational research
18 October 2023Ocean 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 2023A brand new subdomain of Galaxy Europe : earth-system.usegalaxy.eu A subdomain to process, analyse and access Earth System and Environmental data
13 October 2023The European Galaxy Days are over......but we look back with a relaxed smile. Let's draw the balance!
12 October 2023Galaxy goes Research Data InfrastructureThe Galaxy Europe Team active at NFDI's CoRDI (Karlsruhe, Germany, Sep 12th to 14th)
10 October 2023EGI and EuroScienceGateway sign Service-Level AgreementElevating FAIR data analytics in EOSC: SLA between ESG and EGI; IISAS to bring in additional resources
6 October 2023QGIS : A Geographical Information System on Galaxy !Use QGIS in Galaxy Europe as an interactive tool
25 September 2023Connecting Astronomical Data Archives with GalaxyEnabling astronomers to search and download data from IVOA-compliant archives directly within Galaxy
24 July 2023Freiburg Galaxy team at the EGI 2023From 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
7 July 2023Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference 2023Several Galaxy Community members gathered in Davos
24 June 2023ELIXIR releases 2022 Annual Report - the Galaxy perspective2022 as a year of growth for ELIXIR, and Galaxy being a part of it.
23 June 2023GPU-enabled deep learning on GalaxyTaking advantage of Galaxy's GPU computing nodes
16 June 2023Coordination meeting of EOSC-related projects funded under Horizon EuropeMembers of the EuroScienceGateway project attended the EOSC Coordination meeting in Brussels
16 June 2023Galaxy for Astronomy: Integration of the FITS file formatEnabling native support and visualization of Astronomical FITS data in Galaxy
16 June 2023Freiburg Galaxy team at the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2023From 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
6 June 2023New Paper "An accessible infrastructure for artificial intelligence using a Docker-based JupyterLab in Galaxy"
22 May 2023Stronger together: first FAIR-EASE and EuroScienceGateway workshopPresenting some outcomes from the first joined FAIR-EASE / EuroScienceGateway workshop
5 May 2023Joining forces in EOSC: OpenAIRE and EuroScienceGateway sign Memorandum of UnderstandingEuroScienceGateway and OpenAIRE team up to enhance accessibility and FAIRness of scientific data from the Galaxy project.
21 April 2023Galaxy admin trainingGalaxy Admin Training from April 17th to 21st in Ghent, Belgium.
15 March 2023Effortlessly navigate your Galaxy history with enhanced search optionsData 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 2023Enjoy a much faster user interfaceFollowing 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.
23 February 2023Exporting structured data like RO-Crate or BioComputeObjectsGalaxy has a very powerful and extensible exporting framework that now can export RO-Crate and BioComputeObjects
7 February 2023

Stronger together: FAIR-EASE and EuroScienceGateway join forces

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.
4 February 2023VirHunter: detection of novel RNA Viruses in Plant Sequencing DataA Deep Learning-Based Method for the detection of novel RNA Viruses in Plant Sequencing Data
24 January 2023GPU-enabled JupyterLab enables interactive AI use-cases in GalaxyDemocratising GPU infrastructures by providing accelerated JuypterLab instances via Galaxy and combining them with HPC workflows
24 January 2023Simple and data privacy-aware publishing of genomic variance data from Galaxy to the Beacon projectGalaxy has gained a Beacon integration that enables users to publish genetic variance data conveniently via Beacon project
20 January 2023Accessibility in Galaxy 23.0 and beyondAccessibility improvement Highlights for the upcoming 23.0 release, and a few words on accessibility in general
19 January 2023Building a distributed compute network across EuropeThe Work Package 3 of the EuroScienceGateway project
12 January 2023Stimulate FAIR and reusable research with computational workflowsThe Work Package 2 of the EuroScienceGateway project
12 January 2023The Climate community within the EuroScienceGateway projectClimate Community Strategy for Work Package 5
9 January 2023The Materials Science community within the EuroScienceGateway projectOne of the most recent adopters of the Galaxy platfrom
12 December 2022The Astronomy community and the EuroScienceGateway projectTowards harmonizing Open Data Practices in Astronomy with EuroScienceGateway community
8 December 2022Building blocks for a sustainable operating model of the EuroScienceGatewayWork Package 4 of the EuroScienceGateway project
8 December 2022The Biodiversity community and the EuroScienceGateway projectOne of the early adopters to embrace Open Science best practices
24 November 2022Introduction to the EuroScienceGateway project administration and project managementWork Package 1 of the EuroScienceGateway project
24 November 2022Use-cases from early adopters to embrace Open Science best practicesWork Package 5 of the EuroScienceGateway project
21 November 2022Task-based history export trackingNew pull request from David López merged: Add task-based history export tracking
20 November 2022Annual EOSC Symposium 14-17th November 2022The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) had its main EOSC annual event. Find photos and recordings here.
14 November 2022BGE - Kickoff meetingThe BGE project kick-off meeting was celebrated between November 14th and November 18th in Leiden.
6 November 2022EuroScienceGateway - Kickoff meetingThe EuroScienceGateway project started officially with a 2 days kickoff meeting with all 17 partners
5 November 2022The start of the EuroScienceGateway - an EOSC projectEuroScienceGateway will deliver a robust, scalable, seamlessly integrated open infrastructure for data-driven research
12 October 2022Outcomes of the European Galaxy DaysThe European Galaxy Community gathered in Freiburg to discuss recent and future Galaxy developments

EuroScienceGateway was funded by the European Union programme Horizon Europe (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-04) under grant agreement number 101057388 and by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee grant number 10038963.