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I focus on making Galaxy's user experience more user-friendly and empowering for users, closing the gap between complexity and usability. I have also served as Release Manager for several Galaxy releases from 2024-2026.

Dannon is a software engineer in the Taylor Lab at Johns Hopkins University. He is an active member of the Galaxy project; Galaxy is a web-based platform for doing reproducible and transparent genomic research. Dannon's current efforts include work on a cloud computing deployment of Galaxy, and developing a flexible framework for automatic parallelism of tools within Galaxy. Dannon received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

I work on making people happy with Galaxy and making sure people stick around--if there is anything I can do for you to help with that, let me know! I have a Ph. D. from the University of California at San Diego in (Bio)Chemical Engineering and have worked in Bioinformatics for nearly 30 years. Over 20 of those years were as the project coordinator of the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project.