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Intergalactic Utilities Commission

Introduction

Intergalactic Utilities Commission

The Intergalactic Utilities Commission (IUC) was established in 2012 to enable the pervasive use of the main Galaxy Tool Shed by ensuring the repositories available include contents that are functionally correct and optimized for installation into local Galaxies. When appropriate, the group provides guidance to Galaxy tool developers so that they can improve the quality of their repositories.

Activities

  • Maintains a set of high quality Galaxy tools in the GitHub repository. This repo serves as an excellent example and inspiration to all Galaxy tool developers.
  • Cultivates and shares the Galaxy tool development best practices document.
  • Provides support to tool developers on a public Gitter channel.

Members

IUC membership evolves over time and helpful community contributors are asked to join.

Member | Joined | GitHub ------ | ------ | ------ Daniel Blankenberg, Galaxy Team, Penn State University | founding member | @blankenberg Dave Bouvier, Galaxy Team, Penn State University | founding member | @davebx Peter Cock, The James Hutton Institute | founding member | @peterjc Nate Coraor, Galaxy Team, Penn State University | founding member | @natefoo Björn Grüning, University of Freiburg | founding member | @bgruening James Johnson, University of Minnesota | founding member | @jj-umn Nicola Soranzo, Earlham Institute | 2014-08-25 | @nsoranzo Helena Rasche, University of Freiburg | 2014-08-25 | @erasche Marius van den Beek, Galaxy Team, Penn State University | 2015-10-12 | @mvdbeek Greg Von Kuster, Penn State University | founding member | @gregvonkuster Anthony Bretaudeau, GenOuest BioInformatics Platform | 2016-05-11 | @abretaud Saskia Hiltemann, Erasmus University Medical Center | 2016-06-14 | @shiltemann Lance Parsons, Princeton University | 2016-10-28 | @lparsons Bérénice Batut, University of Freiburg | 2017-02-14 | @bebatut Maria Doyle, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | 2017-11-11 | @mblue9 Simon Gladman, University of Melbourne | 2017-11-11 | @Slugger70 Matthias Bernt, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | 2018-07-20 | @bernt-matthias Wolfgang Maier, University of Freiburg | 2019-11-04 | @wm75

Former members

Member | Joined | GitHub ------ | ------ | ------ Brad Chapman, Harvard School of Public Health | founding member | @chapmanb Edward Kirton, U.S. Department of Energy | founding member | Youri Hoogstrate, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam | 2015-10-07 | @yhoogstrate