Tagged: community

The European Galaxy Project Website Is Now Fully Served by the Galaxy Hub

After ten years on a Jekyll-on-GitHub setup, galaxyproject.eu is now completely powered by the Galaxy Hub — a fast, metadata-driven home that any Galaxy community can reuse.

Aug 7, 2026

The European Galaxy Project Website Is Now Fully Served by the Galaxy Hub

After ten years on a Jekyll-on-GitHub setup, galaxyproject.eu is now completely powered by the Galaxy Hub — a fast, metadata-driven home that any Galaxy community can reuse.

Jul 30, 2026

The French Bioinformatics Community at GCC2026 in Clermont-Ferrand

A look back at the 2026 Galaxy Community Conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Jul 29, 2026

GCC2026 CollaborationFest (CoFest!): Outcomes and Highlights

A summary of the outcomes and highlights from the CoFest held after the 2026 Galaxy Community Conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Jul 20, 2026

GCC2026 Recap: Science, Collaboration, and Community in Clermont-Ferrand

A look back at the 2026 Galaxy Community Conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Jul 6, 2026

A repository for both humans and AI agents

Lessons from building galaxy-tool-refactor: keep one set of runnable scripts and let CI, git hooks, a Makefile, and AI-agent skills all call them, so people and agents share one workflow that can't drift apart.

Jun 11, 2026

Reflections on the journey behind the Galaxy Labs Engine paper

Dr Gareth Price reflects on the Galaxy Labs Engine paper, recently published in GigaScience, and the GCC conversations and BioHackathons that grew it from an idea into a globally deployed tool.

May 14, 2026

Galaxy Training Academy 2026 Meet the Experts

New for Galaxy Training Academy 2026: Meet the Experts

May 11, 2026

BioNT Brings Galaxy Training to German, Spanish, and Italian Learners

We are thrilled to announce that the BioNT project (Bio Network for Training) has contributed a significant set of human-curated translated Galaxy training materials to the GTN, now live and available to learners worldwide!

Apr 1, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 13, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Mar 29, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 12, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Mar 22, 2026

AI for wildlife study, when Ecology and Imaging are benefiting from Galaxy ecosystem

Galaxy for Ecology, mixing Ecology research, Citizen Science and AI

Mar 20, 2026

Making Galaxy Greener with the Job Cache

Galaxy's job cache improves performance, supports large training events, and advances environmental sustainability efforts within ELIXIR-STEERS by reducing redundant tool executions

Mar 4, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 9, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Mar 1, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 8, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Feb 22, 2026

Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They’re Wrong!)

We are thrilled to announce that 'Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They Are Wrong!)' has just been published in PLOS Computational Biology! This paper is the result of passionate discussions, collaborative debates, and a shared commitment to clarifying what Galaxy truly is—and what it can do. Whether you are a longtime Galaxy user or new to the platform, this paper will challenge assumptions and highlight Galaxy's versatility, scalability, and impact across disciplines.

Feb 19, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 7, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Feb 15, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 6, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Feb 8, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 5, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Feb 1, 2026

Galaxy 2025 Year in Review

650K+ users, 186M+ jobs, ~15K commits across the ecosystem

Dec 22, 2025

DataPLANT Presented Cloud Architecture and ARC RO-Crates at the 1st Open Access Workshop held in Göttingen

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.

Dec 2, 2025

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.

Nov 21, 2025

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.

Nov 20, 2025

Save the date: The Galaxy Training Academy 2026 will happen from May 18th to May 22th

🎉 We are excited to share that the Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) 2026 will take place next year, starting on 18 May 2026! 🎉

Nov 13, 2025

GTN joined the TEACH V to talk about education across Communities at Helmholtz

The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) had the pleasure of joining the “Talking about Education Across Communities at Helmholtz” (TEACH V) community conference, which took place in Berlin from September 29 to October 1.

Oct 8, 2025

We want you to help us organize the Galaxy Training Academy 2026

🎉 We are excited to announce that we have started planning the Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) 2026! 🎉

Sep 12, 2025

Galaxy Training Academy 2025: round two of out GTN education party!

The Galaxy Training Academy 2025 trained researchers in Galaxy data analysis world wide across a variety of scientific topics.

Jul 17, 2025

RO-Crate specification 1.2 released

Specification for RO-Crate 1.2 released

Jun 4, 2025

RO-Crate specification 1.2 released

Specification for RO-Crate 1.2 released

Jun 4, 2025

Lights, Camera... Hacking! Highlights from the Galaxy Imaging Hackathon 2025

Three days of collaborative hacking, coffee-fueled brainstorming, and community-powered innovation—Galaxy Imaging is growing, and so are its FAIR tools!

May 12, 2025

AquaINFRA, EOSC, and Galaxy: Co-Designing FAIR Services for Aqua Science

AquaINFRA project is going to use the Galaxy platform as the central component of their Virtual Research Environment (VRE).

Apr 7, 2025

GTN’s Gift for 2024

Community Pages

Dec 19, 2024

Organizing GTA2025: Give us feedback and your availability!

Give us feedback and your availability for the GTA 2025

Dec 17, 2024

Credit where it’s due: GTN Reviewers in the spotlight

We would like to recognise and thank all of the reviewers who have contributed to the GTN tutorials; your efforts are greatly appreciated, and we are grateful for your contributions to the GTN community

Dec 2, 2024

Enhancing the Galaxy Italian Community: Italy’s National Galaxy Server

The Italian National Galaxy Server, UseGalaxy.it, is under development as part of the EOSC EuroScienceGateway (ESG) project's Work Package 3, which foresees 6 national Galaxy instances as a crucial…

Nov 23, 2024

Viral pathogen data analysis beyond BY-COVID

A look back at the BY-COVID project and ahead to upcoming developments

Sep 16, 2024

Molecular Biology of Plants conference (MBP 2024)

Poster Presentation entitled MAdLand Tools & Resources

Feb 26, 2024

DOMPS Plant Science Seminar

Seminar talk entitled MAdLand Resources & Tools presented by Deepti Varshney and Saskia Hiltemann

Feb 23, 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.

Jan 15, 2024

AquaINFRA - welcome to EuroScienceGateway

A new community AquaINFRA joins the WP5 of European Science Gateway project

Nov 14, 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

Oct 18, 2023

The European Galaxy Days are over...

...but we look back with a relaxed smile. Let's draw the balance!

Oct 13, 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.

May 5, 2023

Repurposing COVID-19 pipelines for the monkeypox virus

One aim of the BY-COVID project is to build a framework enabling data from newly emerging infectious disease threats to be made rapidly and widely accessible.

Jun 23, 2022

We are launching the new Galaxy Community Calls

A broad forum for global community updates and discussions

Apr 6, 2022

New brochure from ELIXIR Germany

ELIXIR Germany has published the handout "ELIXIR GERMANY - Shaping the Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences in Europe".

Oct 6, 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

Aug 24, 2021

UseGalaxy.eu Use Case: colorectal cancer research

Amir Sabbaghian is using Galaxy at the Advance Technologies Faculty, Golestan University of Medical Sciences Campus (Iran) for colorectal cancer research.

Jul 5, 2021

UseGalaxy.eu Use Case: Genetics research on dairy cattle

Tomas Klingström has sent us the context of his research in the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Jun 25, 2021

Global framework for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis: Application to intrahost variation

Parts 1 and 2

Feb 22, 2021

European Galaxy Flavours

UseGalaxy.eu hosts several domain-specific versions of the usegalaxy.eu server.

Dec 28, 2020

Climate Science at BCC2020

July has been a very busy month for Galaxy Climate

Jul 27, 2020

Scientific Infrastructure for Virus Research

Data and analyses relating to SARS-CoV-2 are available on the University of Freiburg’s Galaxy platform.

Mar 24, 2020

Massively Multiplayer Online Science in Galaxy to help Ecologists - A Citizen Science Project

A few years back the "webhook" concept was contributed to the Galaxy codebase.

Jan 7, 2020

Crowdsourcing citizen science data on usegalaxy.eu

Galaxy for Ecology, mixing Ecology research, Citizen Science and Massively Multi Online Science

Jan 7, 2020

News (55)

The European Galaxy Project Website Is Now Fully Served by the Galaxy Hub

The European Galaxy Project Website Is Now Fully Served by the Galaxy Hub

The French Bioinformatics Community at GCC2026 in Clermont-Ferrand

GCC2026 CollaborationFest (CoFest!): Outcomes and Highlights

GCC2026 Recap: Science, Collaboration, and Community in Clermont-Ferrand

A repository for both humans and AI agents

Reflections on the journey behind the Galaxy Labs Engine paper

Galaxy Training Academy 2026 Meet the Experts

BioNT Brings Galaxy Training to German, Spanish, and Italian Learners

Galactic Weekly: Week 13, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 12, 2026

AI for wildlife study, when Ecology and Imaging are benefiting from Galaxy ecosystem

Making Galaxy Greener with the Job Cache

Galactic Weekly: Week 9, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 8, 2026

Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They’re Wrong!)

Galactic Weekly: Week 7, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 6, 2026

Galactic Weekly: Week 5, 2026

Galaxy 2025 Year in Review

DataPLANT Presented Cloud Architecture and ARC RO-Crates at the 1st Open Access Workshop held in Göttingen

Galaxy Powers FAIR Data: The BERD@NFDI B-Plan Use Case Shines at EOSC Symposium 2025

Galaxy Tool Wrapping: Introducing the New Tool Developers SIG

Save the date: The Galaxy Training Academy 2026 will happen from May 18th to May 22th

GTN joined the TEACH V to talk about education across Communities at Helmholtz

We want you to help us organize the Galaxy Training Academy 2026

Galaxy Training Academy 2025: round two of out GTN education party!

RO-Crate specification 1.2 released

RO-Crate specification 1.2 released

Lights, Camera... Hacking! Highlights from the Galaxy Imaging Hackathon 2025

AquaINFRA, EOSC, and Galaxy: Co-Designing FAIR Services for Aqua Science

GTN’s Gift for 2024

Organizing GTA2025: Give us feedback and your availability!

Credit where it’s due: GTN Reviewers in the spotlight

Enhancing the Galaxy Italian Community: Italy’s National Galaxy Server

Viral pathogen data analysis beyond BY-COVID

Molecular Biology of Plants conference (MBP 2024)

DOMPS Plant Science Seminar

Graphical retrospectives of personal and community-wide contributions to Galaxy

AquaINFRA - welcome to EuroScienceGateway

Ocean Data View : a new and first of it’s kind tool for the Earth-System subdomain

The European Galaxy Days are over...

Joining forces in EOSC: OpenAIRE and EuroScienceGateway sign Memorandum of Understanding

Repurposing COVID-19 pipelines for the monkeypox virus

We are launching the new Galaxy Community Calls

New brochure from ELIXIR Germany

Updates from the ELIXIR Galaxy Community

UseGalaxy.eu Use Case: colorectal cancer research

UseGalaxy.eu Use Case: Genetics research on dairy cattle

Global framework for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis: Application to intrahost variation

European Galaxy Flavours

Climate Science at BCC2020

Scientific Infrastructure for Virus Research

Massively Multiplayer Online Science in Galaxy to help Ecologists - A Citizen Science Project

Crowdsourcing citizen science data on usegalaxy.eu

Events (20)

Introducing Galaxy NUBRI

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

E-Science-Tage 2025

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Plant and Animal Genome Conference

MAdLand Annual Meeting 2023

Galaxy Community Call: Muon Science community

Galaxy Community Call: Workflows, Planemo, BioBlend and tags to automate SARS-CoV-2 genome surveillance

Galaxy Metabolomics Community Call: Galaxy Interactive Tools - how to create and use them

Radiometabolomics: Identification of Metabolic Predictors of Radiation Late Effects

Galaxy Training Network day - (online) CoFest and community call

NGS data analysis with Galaxy for clinical applications

The Galaxy platform for metaproteomic characterization of microbiomes

GCC2014

GCC2013

GCC2012