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| 18 December 2024 | As we orbit the end of another stellar year, let’s engage warp drive and reflect on the out-of-this-world achievements of the **Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community (SPOC 🖖)**. From launching new tools to charting new tutorials, SPOC’s journey through the Galaxy (platform) has been nothing short of cosmic! 🌠 | |
| 12 December 2024 | Galaxy Newsletter: December 2024 | From groundbreaking milestones to exciting new features, join us in celebrating Galaxy’s incredible journey through 2024! Plus, get a sneak peek at what Galaxy has in store for 2025. |
| 27 November 2024 | Biological Data Science 2024 | Galaxy had a strong presence at Biological Data Science 2024, featured in talks and posters that showcased its power and versatility in advancing biological research. |
| 21 November 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Transforming life in the tropics using genomic technologies for One Health | How can genomics improve health, food production, and biodiversity in tropical regions? A new review explores how cutting-edge technologies, including Galaxy, are shaping a sustainable future for the tropics. |
| 16 November 2024 | Galaxy Docker Image Update: Version 24.1 Released! | Discover Galaxy Docker 24.1 with updated services, streamlined architecture, and new features. |
| 15 November 2024 | MGnify amplicon pipeline v5.0 on Galaxy | Porting the MGnify Amplicon Pipeline v5.0 to Galaxy: A Collaborative Effort with EBI |
| 30 October 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Microbial life at Arctic hydrothermal vents | How do hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean fuel microbial life? A new study explores the microbial ecosystems thriving at the Aurora and Polaris seamounts, revealing key insights into how hydrogen and sulfur power deep-sea life. |
| 25 October 2024 | Announcing the GBCC2025 Logo Design Contest! | Unleash your creativity for the first-ever Galaxy & Bioconductor Community Conference! |
| 1 October 2024 | Galaxy in Research: New insights into antibody activation using AlphaFold in Galaxy | How do antigens trigger B-cell receptors (BCRs), and can a single mechanism explain the activation of all BCR types? This study explores a unifying model that integrates various mechanisms of BCR triggering, providing fresh perspectives on antibody activation. |
| 24 September 2024 | Galaxy Newsletter: September 2024 | Discover exciting updates, including the Galaxy Training Academy 2024, ColabFold's arrival on Galaxy, GBCC2025, and major community milestones! |
| 5 September 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Uncovering the evolutionary secrets of wild loquats using comparative chloroplast genomics | A new study has sequenced and analyzed two wild loquat chloroplast genomes, revealing key insights into their evolutionary history and the genetic diversity of loquat species. |
| 20 August 2024 | Opinion: Conda, Anaconda and the much bigger problem behind it | Anaconda, DockerHub, Quay.io, GitHub ... we need to talk about the sustainability of our infrastructure. |
| 19 August 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Advancing quantum materials research with Galaxy | At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists have harnessed the power of Galaxy to bring together cutting-edge computing resources, paving the way for new discoveries in quantum materials through advanced neutron scattering data analysis. |
| 14 August 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Exploring DNA methylation and aging across diverse human tissues | How does DNA methylation correlate with aging across different human tissues? A new study provides insights into this question, revealing tissue-specific and shared epigenetic patterns. |
| 30 July 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Exploring Genetic Variability in Almond Blooming | Learn how genetic variations influence the blooming periods of almond cultivars, revealing key insights into their molecular regulation. |
| 24 July 2024 | Galaxy Newsletter: July 2024 | Tune in for exciting updates from GCC2024, the latest Galaxy release, and more in this edition of the Galaxy Newsletter! |
| 19 July 2024 | GCC2024 Meeting Report | Discover the highlights from GCC2024, where the Galaxy community gathered in Brno to share insights, innovations, and collaborations. |
| 17 July 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Unlocking genetic secrets of Lake Baikal’s endemic sponges | Explore the depths of Lake Baikal and discover how cutting-edge genetic research in Galaxy is unraveling the complex relationships between its unique sponge species. |
| 3 July 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Molecular secrets of minnow adaptation to salinity stress | Discover how advanced transcriptomic analyses in Galaxy reveal the intricate molecular adaptations of minnows to freshwater salinization. |
| 20 June 2024 | Galaxy Release 24.1 | See what's new on Galaxy with the 24.1 release notes! |
| 11 June 2024 | We are happy to announce the Galaxy Training Academy 2024, a global online training event, where learners can get to know Galaxy and learn how to analyze data for various research topics. | |
| 10 June 2024 | The 2024 Galaxy Community Update Paper is Here! | Discover the latest advancements and future directions of the Galaxy Project in the community's newly published 2024 update paper. |
| 6 June 2024 | The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) has reached an exciting milestone: our 400th tutorial! This achievement is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our community of educators, researchers, and developers over the last 9 years. | |
| 6 June 2024 | The GTN hosts its 400th tutorial: Building an amplicon sequence variant (ASV) table from 16S data using DADA2 | |
| 5 June 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Decoding chromatin interactions with asteRIa | Find out how Galaxy helps researchers unlock the mysteries of gene expression regulation through chromatin studies. |
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| 3 June 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Investigating Food Safety Threats | Learn how Galaxy can be used to detect and analyze drug-resistant bacteria threatening food safety in Egypt. |
| 3 June 2024 | 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 | |
| 27 May 2024 | All GTN training data in one basket | Providing effortless access to GTN training data via Onedata |
| 22 May 2024 | Are you organizing a training event using GTN materials? You can now add your event directly to the GTN! | |
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| 15 May 2024 | Galaxy Release 24.0 | Check out the newest features and updates on Galaxy! |
| 14 May 2024 | Galaxy in Research: Exploring the Hidden World of Antarctic Toxins with Galaxy | Discover how Galaxy is helping to unravel the hidden world of peptide toxins in an Antarctic marine invertebrate. |
| 13 May 2024 | We are happy to report that over the years of our fruitful collaboration with ELIXIR TeSS, all GTN materials should receive a perfect score on the FAIR-Checker. | |
| 3 May 2024 | InvenioRDM integration in Galaxy | Discover a more streamlined approach to research data management with Galaxy's integration with InvenioRDM-compatible repositories. |
| 28 April 2024 | Poster 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. " |
| 24 April 2024 | Melbourne Bioinformatics is expanding their team and recruiting three new roles to work on bioinformatics training, outreach, and research. | |
| 12 April 2024 | An earth system case study at the EGU 2024 | A Galaxy workflow presented during the European Geoscience Union |
| 28 March 2024 | As part of the work of BeYond COVID, we have developed a new integration between the MINERVA Platform’s COVID-19 Disease Map and Galaxy! Datasets created within Galaxy can now be seamlessly visualized in the MINERVA Platform, allowing you to explore your data in the context of the COVID-19 Disease Map. | |
| 26 March 2024 | ELIXIR-UK’s Data Stewardship Fellowship is excited to announce a new learning pathway focused on FAIR Data Management! This program equips researchers and research support staff with the skills to effectively manage their research data. | |
| 19 March 2024 | Galaxy Team Meeting in Austin, Texas | Check out what was accomplished when part of the Galaxy team got together in Austin, Texas, for a team meeting! |
| 19 March 2024 | James 'JJ' Johnson | |
| 18 March 2024 | At the Galaxy Training Network we are really committed to ensuring our training materials are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable | |
| 18 March 2024 | Galaxy Newsletter: March 2024 | Dive into the March 2024 Galaxy Newsletter! |
| 7 March 2024 | NCBI Foreign Contamination Screen Tool: Now Available in Galaxy! | We are thrilled to have partnered with NCBI to include their Foreign Contamination Screen tool in Galaxy! |
| 4 March 2024 | We know the GTN has a lot of learning materials (400 and counting!) which can make it quite difficult to figure out where to start in some topics. | |
| 29 February 2024 | Building upon the work previously done for the SARS-Cov-2 Topic we have further expanded the ‘tag based topics’ to support a new GMOD topic. | |
| 9 February 2024 | PAG31 Meeting Report | Read about Galaxy's participation at PAG31. |
| 7 February 2024 | Galaxy Release 23.2 | Workflow comments, InvenioRDM integration, improved search, admin and config updates and more! |
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| 26 January 2024 | Galaxy is Leaving Twitter/X | Effective March 31st, 2024, Galaxy will be leaving Twitter/X. |
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| 15 January 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. |
| 7 January 2024 | Unlocking Microbial Data Analysis: The microGalaxy Preprint Is Here! | |
| 19 December 2023 | Galaxy Newsletter: December 2023 | Check out the December 2023 Galaxy Newsletter to learn about some of the highlights of 2023, take a look ahead into 2024, and read some of this year's top Galaxy Success Stories! |
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| 14 December 2023 | Galaxy Europe has been added as a new ELIXIR RIR | usegalaxy.eu is now an ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource! |
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| 30 October 2023 | An update on Galaxy Genome Annotation | Galaxy as a platform for the annotation of genomes |
| 17 October 2023 | A brand new subdomain of Galaxy Europe : earth-system.usegalaxy.eu | A subdomain to process, analyse and access Earth System and Environmental data |
| 13 October 2023 | The European Galaxy Days are over... | ...but we look back with a relaxed smile. Let's draw the balance! |
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| 5 October 2023 | Galaxy 23.1 Release | Galaxy 23.1 is here! Check out the highlights! |
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| 29 September 2023 | Success Story: “TIaaS: Training Infrastructure as a Service for an MGnify training” | The MGnify team of EMBL-EBI have used [TIaaS](https://usegalaxy.eu/tiaas/) to run the [MGnify Interactive Tool](https://usegalaxy.eu/?tool_id=interactive_tool_mgnify_notebook) on scale |
| 28 September 2023 | Time to celebrate! | Galaxy having grown up and matured - happy 18th birthday! |
| 28 September 2023 | New Paper "Integrative meta-omics in Galaxy and beyond" | Schiml *et al.* present three integrative meta-omics workflows, developed in Galaxy, for enhanced analysis and integration of metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metaproteomics, combined with a newly developed web-application, ViMO (Visualizer for Meta-Omics) to analyse metabolisms in complex microbial communities. |
| 25 September 2023 | Connecting Astronomical Data Archives with Galaxy | Enabling astronomers to search and download data from IVOA-compliant archives directly within Galaxy |
| 13 September 2023 | Galaxy Newsletter: September 2023 | Galaxy is excited to announce the relaunch of our Galaxy Newsletter! We are thrilled to share updates on Galaxy, including topics such as events, scientific successes, and general community announcements. |
| 14 August 2023 | ChatGPT in Galaxy via Jupyter notebooks | Use ChatGPT in Galaxy Europe via JupyterLab interactive tool. |
| 14 August 2023 | GCC2023 Meeting Report | That's a wrap! Catch up on all the highlights from GCC2023 here! |
| 11 August 2023 | Survival analysis for right censored data using lifelines | Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models are available for testing in Galaxy |
| 7 August 2023 | Generic scatter plots for any Galaxy tabular data | A tool generating interactive HTML scatter plots from Galaxy tabular data is now available for testing |
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| 11 July 2023 | Carbon Emissions Reporting in Galaxy | Dynamic carbon emissions reporting for jobs in Galaxy |
| 30 June 2023 | Galaxy Single-cell Updates | Latest updates on Galaxy tools, workflows and training materials developed by the Galaxy single-cell community |
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| 16 June 2023 | Galaxy for Astronomy: Integration of the FITS file format | Enabling native support and visualization of Astronomical FITS data in Galaxy |
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| 5 May 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. |
| 21 April 2023 | Galaxy admin training | Galaxy Admin Training from April 17th to 21st in Ghent, Belgium. |
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| 31 March 2023 | Using Galaxy & TIaaS to teach hands-on genome assembly and annotation | On Feb. 27 to Mar. 3, we (several VGP-associated instructors) used the UseGalaxy EU infrastructure to aid in teaching an online Physalia course of 40+ students how to assemble and annotate their own genome from their browser. |
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| 21 March 2023 | Evaluation of the current usage and future needs of Galaxy for microbial data analysis - We Need Your Help! | The microGalaxy community of practice would like to learn more about use-cases where Galaxy was beneficial, and also the barriers that prevent researchers from using Galaxy. The aim is to collectively find solutions to improve user experience and reduce barriers. To this end, we are launching a survey to reach out to, and learn from, the microbial research community. |
| 15 March 2023 | Effortlessly navigate your Galaxy history with enhanced search options | Data 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 2023 | Enjoy a much faster user interface | Following 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. |
| 8 March 2023 | Galaxy Mentor Network: Reset | We launched the [Galaxy Mentor Network](https://galaxy-mentor-network.netlify.app/) one year ago with the idea to onboard new members in the community. Now, one year later, we realize that we failed. We still believe in the power that the Galaxy Mentor Network, and, in that spirit, we would like to relaunch the Galaxy Mentor Network with a new matching process. |
| 24 February 2023 | New Paper "The Planemo toolkit for developing, deploying, and executing scientific data analyses in Galaxy and beyond" | Bray *et al.* outline the implementation and broad range of functionality of Planemo, a software development kit for designing, testing, and executing Galaxy tools, workflows, and training materials. |
| 20 February 2023 | TIaaS allows trainees’ jobs to be run preferentially and avoids long execution times, depending on the server load. By providing access to this service, the Galaxy Training Network ensured that TIaaS would be freely available to anyone and facilitated access to an extensive catalogue of FAIR training materials. | |
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| 7 February 2023 | 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. | |
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| 24 January 2023 | Simple and data privacy-aware publishing of genomic variance data from Galaxy to the Beacon project | Galaxy has gained a Beacon integration that enables users to publish genetic variance data conveniently via Beacon project |
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| 20 January 2023 | Accessibility in Galaxy 23.0 and beyond | Accessibility improvement Highlights for the upcoming 23.0 release, and a few words on accessibility in general |
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| 21 November 2022 | Task-based history export tracking | New pull request from David López merged: Add task-based history export tracking |
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| 1 November 2022 | Impact on Galaxy of OpenSSL 3.0.x Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 ("Spooky SSL") | Official severity downgraded to HIGH, exploitability and impact to Galaxy is very low |
| 14 October 2022 | Well-being and Mental Health Guideline | Publication of the Guideline |
| 28 September 2022 | Introducing the Galaxy Global Hub | Find all your Galaxy info in one website |
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| 28 May 2021 | Webinars: Galaxy Resources for ... | Watch them now. |
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