The Galactic Blog
Welcome to the Galactic Blog, a list of Galaxy related blog posts from community members. This blog contains longer form posts or pointers to longer form posts that are elsewhere on the web.
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2 Sep 2021 |
Luke Sargent
from the Galactic Blog | Cancer informatics working group T2 update CI-WG Updates from the tertile |
28 Aug 2021 |
Peter van Heusden
from Low Order Magic | Galaxy 21.05 upgrade and cluster_venv Using a specific venv for running on the cluster that is configured on the cluster |
20 Aug 2021 |
Peter van Heusden
from SANBI News | SANBI provides leadership at Galaxy Community Conference Highlights of GCC2021 included talks on Galaxy tools for analysing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and a number of talks on the use of Galaxy in a pathogen genomics and public health context. |
7 Aug 2021 | Christina Hall | New high memory computers fast-track insights into large genomes Galaxy Australia’s new high memory servers have delivered an impressive leap forward for scientists with large datasets and computationally-intensive analyses. |
9 Jun 2021 |
Meaghan McConlogue
from Terra Blog | A Galaxy of tools at your fingertips Galaxy is now available in all flavors of the Terra platform. |
28 May 2021 |
Beatriz Serrano-Solano
from UseGalaxy.eu | Galaxy Resources for ... Webinars Summary Watch them now. |
7 May 2021 |
Alex Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Keith Suderman, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Helm chart v4.0 From dev to testing to production on the same stack. |
3 May 2021 |
Mehmet Tekman, Beatriz Serrano-Solano
from UseGalaxy.eu | Plant Transcriptomics Workshop: A Summary New platform, new learners, new paradigms. |
29 Apr 2021 |
Simon Bray, Wolfgang Maier, Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Björn Grüning
from UseGalaxy.eu | Monitoring of raw open data for SARS-CoV-2 genome surveillance UseGalaxy.eu is now automatically collecting, and analyzing raw sequencing data published by the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK). |
24 Mar 2021 |
Nolan Woods
from Innovate Invent | Tips and tricks for Galaxy "a useful bag of tricks and tools" |
15 Mar 2021 |
Saskia Hiltemann, Helena Rasche
from Gallantries Blog | GTN Smörgåsbord: A Global Galaxy Course A report on the largest Galaxy event ever. |
1 Mar 2021 |
Enis Afgan
from GalaxyWorks Blog | How to choose the Galaxy that works for you With hundreds of options available to use Galaxy, how do you pick the right one for you? |
22 Feb 2021 |
Wolfgang Maier, Marius Van Den Beek, Björn Grüning, Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, Anton Nekrutenko, and the Galaxy Team in US, EU, and AU
from Virological | Global framework for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis: Application to intrahost variation Parts 1 and 2 |
8 Feb 2021 |
Dan Blankenberg
from GalaxyWorks Blog | Change a datatype on multiple datasets
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3 Feb 2021 |
Kelli Shute, Enis Afgan
from Trusted CI Blog | Trusted CI and SGCI Collaborate to Secure the Galaxy Science Gateway Platform On the path toward Galaxy security compliance |
1 Feb 2021 |
Helena Rasche
from Gallantries Blog | Galaxy Admin Training with the Gallantries Lessons learned |
30 Jan 2021 |
Wolfgang Maier
from UseGalaxy.eu | New and updated CNV and Variant Calling tools on UseGalaxy.eu and in the Toolshed |
29 Jan 2021 |
Geraldine Van der Auwera
from Terra Blog | Try out Galaxy in Terra via AnVIL Your own personal Galaxy |
22 Jan 2021 |
Wolfgang Maier, Björn Grüning
from UseGalaxy.eu | Variant Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Data January 2021 update |
31 Dec 2020 |
Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Björn Grüning
from UseGalaxy.eu | The European Galaxy Server in 2020 What a shitty year! But it’s over and we hope you and your family are safe and healthy. |
22 Dec 2020 |
Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Muhammet Celik
from UseGalaxy.eu | Open Life Science program & the Galaxy community involvement in OLS-2 and invitation to apply to the next cohort |
26 Nov 2020 |
Anne Fouilloux
from EOSC-Nordic | Insights from the first cross-training between EOSC-Life and EOSC-Nordic Galaxy as a common platform |
24 Nov 2020 |
Freiburg Galaxy Team
from UseGalaxy.eu | Activity report of the last 5 years of the Freiburg Galaxy Team Crucial infrastructure serving more than 22,000 researchers |
20 Nov 2020 |
Peter Bickerton
from Earlham Institute | Accessible single-cell RNA-sequencing bioinformatics training using Galaxy
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14 Oct 2020 |
Leighton Pritchard
from UseGalaxy.eu | Teaching Advanced Microbiology with Galaxy and TIaaS Addressing challenges the global coronavirus pandemic |
15 Sep 2020 |
Alireza Khanteymoori, Björn Grüning, and Beatriz Serrano-Solano
from UseGalaxy.eu | Remote training using Galaxy Lessons learned from our ELIXIR Galaxy Machine Learning Workshop |
28 Aug 2020 |
Peter van Heusden
from SASBi News | Bioinformatics training in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic Bioinformatics online |
26 Aug 2020 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy: the first 10,000 pubs The Galaxy Publication Library hits a milestone |
22 Aug 2020 |
Björn Grüning and Beatriz Serrano-Solano
from UseGalaxy.eu | 3 steps to get your tool into Galaxy A real-world example |
13 Aug 2020 |
BCC2020 Organizers
from BCC2020 | Lessons learnt from organizing a virtual conference (BCC2020)
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27 Jul 2020 |
Anne Fouilloux
from UseGalaxy.eu | Climate Science at BCC2020 July has been a very busy month for Galaxy Climate |
27 Jul 2020 |
Chris Armit
from GIGABlog | Birthdays and Online Conferences go Viral. ISMB2020 & BCC2020 in the time of COVID-19 Meetings In the Time of Coronavirus: Conferences go Viral |
19 Jul 2020 |
StreetScience
from UseGalaxy.eu | The landscape of SARS-CoV-2 RNA modifications Studying the RNA modifications of SARS-CoV-2 to improve understanding of SARS viruses |
16 Jul 2020 |
Nuwan Goonasekera, Alexandru Mahmoud, Mohamad Safadieh, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | GVL 5.0-beta4: data browser, project-level isolation, and Galaxy 20.05 The GVL workbench now integrated through data |
29 Jun 2020 | Emily Lescak | Go global and go affordable How BCC2020 went online |
22 Jun 2020 |
Alexandru Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | Multi-tenant, multi-project GVL with Galaxy, Jupyter, Terminal, and RStudio Complete analysis on one platform, including training and collaboration |
24 Apr 2020 |
Alexandru Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Luke Sargent, Enis Afgan
from the Galactic Blog | GVL 5.0-beta2 release 30% faster and single sign-on, ohh my |
23 Apr 2020 |
Björn Grüning
from UseGalaxy.eu | Multi-omics Visualization Platform: An extensible Galaxy plug-in for multi-omics data visualization and exploration a visualization plug-in that extends Galaxy-P’s advantages into the visualization of large, complex datasets |
15 Apr 2020 |
Michael Thompson
from OBF | Galaxy Admin 2020 and beyond Everything about Galaxy is Ansible! |
14 Apr 2020 |
Magnus Ø. Arntzen
from UseGalaxy.eu | Integrative meta-omics analysis Integrative meta-omics analysis - Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, Metaproteomics |
14 Feb 2020 |
Enis Afgan, Nuwan Goonasekera, Alexandru Mahmoud, Alex Ostrovsky, the GVL and Galaxy teams
from the Galactic Blog | With Love: The All-new GVL 5.0 (beta) Now more reliable, with better security, and with new features. |
7 Jan 2020 |
Yvan Le Bras, Simon Bénateau
from the Galactic Blog | Crowdsourcing citizen science data on usegalaxy.eu Galaxy for Ecology, mixing Ecology research, Citizen Science and Massively Multi Online Science |
18 Dec 2019 | Stephan Beck | Reaching for the stars: PGP-UK multi-omics data now also available on Galaxy Europe Galaxy is particularly useful for anyone seeking training in multi-omics analyses and creating of workflows. |
20 Nov 2019 |
Ivan Kuzmin
from UseGalaxy.eu | gProfiler is published and running on usegalaxy.eu A toolset for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists. |
14 Nov 2019 | Ben Orsburn | Great GalaxyP Tutorials hosted at GalaxyProject.eu The arguments are building up for why you need this |
2 Nov 2019 |
Tomas Klingstrom
from UseGalaxy.eu | Sweden + South Africa Training Update Agricultural Sciences collaboration between Swedish University of Agricultural sciences researchers and the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa |
23 Oct 2019 |
European Galaxy Team
from UseGalaxy.eu | Use the power of pandas / numpy to transform tabular datasets on UseGalaxy.eu Drop or duplicate given rows or columns from a tabular dataset, filter rows or columns on their properties, replace or transform table elements, ... |
17 Aug 2019 |
Tobias Neumann
from UseGalaxy.eu | Slamdunk SLAMseq analysis for nucleotide-conversion sequencing datasets |
6 Aug 2019 |
Anika Erxleben, Helena Rashce, Björn Grüning
from UseGalaxy.eu | Galaxy Community Conference A brief summary |
5 Aug 2019 |
Björn Grüning
from UseGalaxy.eu | The Galaxy Genome Annotation Project Scaling Genome Annotation for the Masses |
29 Jul 2019 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Looking for Galaxy (info), in all the right places Which are dangerously close to the wrong places... |
23 Jul 2019 |
Dave Clements, Martin Cech, Mo Heydarian, Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Nicola Soranzo
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy on Twitter: An Update What's happening, right now |
8 Jul 2019 |
Erin Becker, Francois Michonneau
from the Galactic Blog | 22 Months in the Making: New (Carpentries) Genomics Curriculum Release What goes into a major lesson update? |
30 May 2019 |
Enis Afgan and Nuwan Goonasekera
from the Galactic Blog | Enabling cloud bursting for Galaxy Expand your compute horizons. |
15 Apr 2019 |
Enis Afgan and Vahid Jalili
from the Galactic Blog | Building up support for the Google Cloud Platform in Galaxy Get on the cloud, Google Cloud! |
2 Apr 2019 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | A sneak peak at GCC2019 New scheduling format this year |
28 Feb 2019 |
Mo Heydarian
from the Galactic Blog | Interview with Nate Coraor: CVMFS & Galaxy Find out about Galaxy's favorite filesystem |
15 Jan 2019 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Genome annotation with Prokka", selected by Simon Gladman
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27 Dec 2018 |
Ben Orsburn
from the Galactic Blog | Hey Galaxy People! Want easy proteo-transcriptomics!??! QuanTP is a great new gap bridging tool! |
12 Dec 2018 |
Martin Čech
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Simon Gladman
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27 Nov 2018 |
Ming Chen
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Tool Generator (GTG) A web application for developing Galaxy tools through web interfaces |
15 Nov 2018 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Reference-based RNA-Seq data analysis", selected by Saskia Hiltemann
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1 Nov 2018 |
Martin Čech
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Saskia Hiltemann
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15 Oct 2018 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: "Galaxy 101", selected by Yvan Le Bras
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1 Oct 2018 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Yvan Le Bras Citizen Science and Galaxy for Ecology |
28 Sep 2018 |
Bérénice Batut
from the Galactic Blog | Tutorial of the Month: Maria Doyle selected "From peaks to genes"
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17 Sep 2018 |
Christina Hall
from EMBL-ABR News | Hybrid training delivers online participatory training to far-reaching venues Hybrid training delivers online participatory training to far-reaching venues, with Galaxy of course |
5 Sep 2018 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Carrie Ganote
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30 Aug 2018 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Mercurial-based tool installation issues in Galaxy 18.05 Seeing "Error cloning repository: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"? |
1 Aug 2018 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Contributor of the Month: Pablo Moreno
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15 Jun 2018 |
Bérénice Batut, on behalf of the Galaxy Training Network
from the Galactic Blog | A fruitful year for the Galaxy Training material
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1 Feb 2018 | Arun Decano | Coding in the Winter Wonderland: Galaxy Admin Training in Oslo, 2018
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8 Jan 2018 |
Ming Chen
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy R Markdown Tools Using R Markdown as a framework to develop Galaxy tools |
12 Dec 2017 |
Tomas Klingström
from the Galactic Blog | Galaksio: a Galaxy user interface focused on running prepared workflows Make your workflows more accessible to non-bioinformaticians |
11 Dec 2017 | Tomas Klingström | Bioinformatic training with the B3Africa project Training using the Galaksio interface |
1 Dec 2017 | Vimalkumar Velayudhan | Setup your own instance of the Galaxy Bioinformatics platform on DigitalOcean Setup a DigitalOcean droplet with Galaxy, Apache and PostgreSQL |
8 Nov 2017 |
B. Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy Docker 17.09 CVMFS and Singularity support |
16 Oct 2017 |
Anton Nekrutenko
from the Galactic Blog | Small genome assembly in Galaxy Why not to do assembly on-line? |
16 Oct 2017 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Galaxy: the first 5,000 pubs The Galaxy Publication Library hits a milestone |
10 Oct 2017 |
Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | SciPy and scikit-learn integration into Galaxy
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6 Oct 2017 |
Helena Rasche
from the Galactic Blog | Public Galaxy Server Dashboard a new view of the Universe |
5 Oct 2017 |
Frederik Coppens, Gildas Le Corguillé, Björn Grüning
from the Galactic Blog | ELIXIR establishes a new official Community for Galaxy
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4 Oct 2017 |
Dave Clements
from the Galactic Blog | Welcome to the Galactic Blog It needs you |
20 Sep 2017 | Ben Orsburn | APOSTL -- A staggering number of Galaxy AP-MS tools in a user friendly interface! where all the Galaxy tools for Affiniity purification/enrichment MS experiments are located in a form where we all can use them |
1 Aug 2017 |
Jeffrey Perkel
from Naturejobs Blog | TechBlog: Jupyter Joins the Galaxy Working with data programmatically inside Galaxy |
31 Jul 2017 |
Hollydawn Murry
from F1000 Research blog | Intergalactique – the Galaxy Community Conference 2017 a run down of this year's Galaxy Community Conference |
25 Jul 2017 | Simon Gladman | Elixir, CLIMB, Sanger and the Galaxy Community Conference UK, UK, UK, and France |
29 May 2017 |
Paul Gordon
from ACHRI Bioinformatics | The ungoogleable: Authenticating a Galaxy Portal with Active Directory How to configure Apache to authenticate a user against an LDAP server that requires authentication to search |
28 Apr 2017 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | Guardians of the Galaxy Workflow Galaxy Series, Volumes 1-12 |
25 Apr 2017 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Securing Galaxy with HTTPS running with Nginx using Let’s Encrypt Secure communication between a Galaxy instance and its users |
17 Mar 2017 | Nathan Bott | Galaxy: A Workflow Management System for Modern Life Sciences Research Focus on the data |
10 Mar 2017 | Rafa Hernández | How to upgrade a Galaxy Docker image A step by step guide |
2 Nov 2016 |
Chase Miller
from iobio Blog | IOBIO Now in Galaxy bam.iobio and vcf.iobio can now be launched directly from galaxy using your data already stored there. |
20 Sep 2016 |
Björn Grüning
from (GIGA)Blog | Conda as a new standard for Galaxy tool dependencies For deployment issues, we need a package manager that is operating system and programming language agnostic... |
24 Aug 2016 | Greg Von Kuster | Galaxy tools for Constructive Solid Geometry Galaxy CSG flavor |
13 Jul 2016 | Igor Makunin | Moving data between Galaxy instances A howto guide on getting data from one instance to another. |
20 Jun 2016 | Marius van den Beek | Running Jobs Outside the Galaxy Docker Container Instructions on how to do this ... |
3 Mar 2016 | Alex Kanterakis | Setting up Galaxy with TORQUE on AWS A basic guide on how to setup Galaxy with TORQUE in an EC2 instance |
14 Dec 2015 |
Nicole Nogoy
from (GIGA)Blog | We Wish You a GigaChristmas: A 2015 Wrap-Up a summary of our recent technical developments |
8 Dec 2015 |
Mikael Loaec, Olivier Inizan
from the Galactic Blog | Testing connexion between Galaxy and iRODS Testing the connexion of Galaxy to iRODS object store. |
21 Oct 2015 |
Steve Cassidy
from Steve Cassidy's blog | Galaxy Tool Generating Datasets How to generate dataset collections from a Galaxy tool |
9 Oct 2015 |
Peter van Heusden
from low order magic | How Galaxy resolves tool dependencies (or not) Explanation of Galaxy's tool dependency definitions that specify how to source the actual packages that implement the tool’s commands |
30 Jul 2015 |
Hans-Rudolf Hotz
from the Galactic Blog | Moving from MySQL to PostgreSQL It is pretty simple, though you might hit some obstacles depending on how old your MySQL server is and how much you have manually interfered with the database. |
12 Jul 2015 | Benedikt Rauscher, Benjamen White | BioJS2Galaxy - A step by step guide A simple step by step guide on how to use Sebastian Wilzbach’s application, biojs2galaxy. |
2 Jun 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Exposing Galaxy reports via nginx in a production instance Outline how I've done this for our local Galaxy set up, which uses nginx. |
22 Apr 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Using GALAXY_SLOTS with multithreaded Galaxy tools Using GALAXY_SLOTS with multithreaded Galaxy tools |
18 Mar 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Installing ANNOVAR in Galaxy A HOWTO for installing ANNOVAR in Galaxy |
17 Mar 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | Custom Google web searches for Galaxy help Astronomy, phones, sports teams, chocolate, cars. Not. |
28 Feb 2015 |
Pierre Lindenbaum
from YOKOFAKUN | Integrating a Java Program in Galaxy Example showing how to install a Java program as a tool in a Galaxy instance |
28 Feb 2015 |
Peter Briggs
from Galactic Engineer | FTP upload to Galaxy using ProFTPd and PBKDF2 How to implement ProFTPd using PBKFD2 protocol for encryption |
27 Nov 2014 |
Nicole Nogoy
from (GIGA)Blog | Getting Techy With It: GigaScience Technology Update 2014 GigaGalaxy and “bring your own” data parties |
1 Sep 2014 |
Tracey Timms-Wilson
from The Bio-Linux at the NERC Environmental 'Omics Synthesis Centre series | Overview of Galaxy on Bio-Linux 8 Want to run Galaxy under Bio-Linux 8? |
10 Jun 2014 |
William Holtz
from the Galactic Blog | Setting up a secure tool shed with remote authentication Requires some tweaks in order to allow Galaxy to communicate with the Tool Shed |
24 Apr 2014 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | All systems go at ICSB 2014 and the Great GigaScience and Galaxy (G3) workshop Tackling irreproducible research |
28 Mar 2014 |
Olivier Inizan, Mikael Loaec
from Puppet Forge | Basic Galaxy Puppet Module A puppet module for a very basic galaxy server (use for development) |
6 Feb 2014 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | Rewarding Reproducibility: First Papers in our Galaxy Series utilizing our GigaGalaxy platform GigaScience moves toward more interactive articles |
27 Jan 2014 |
Tim Booth
from the Galactic Blog | Problem with logout when using LDAP for authentication with remoteUser enabled Make changes to 4 Galaxy configuration files |
5 Dec 2013 | Contributors | Tool Integration Short Tutorial Documents best practices for tool integration |
27 Oct 2013 | Sarah Maman, Nabihoudine Ibou | IGV Integration How to set up IGV-Galaxy integration in Apache and Galaxy, including adding custom genomes |
23 Oct 2013 | Contributors | Sharing workflows between servers Process for sharing workflows, including wrapping necessary tools |
12 Oct 2013 | Thomas Cokelaer | Using BioServices Python Library with Galaxy A HOWTO on linking BioServices and Galaxy |
9 Jul 2013 |
John Chilton
from CloudBioLinux Repo | CloudBioLinux Deployer CloudMan QuickStart How to build CloudMan instances from scratch using the CloudBioLinux deployer |
9 Jul 2013 |
Scott Edmunds
from (GIGA)Blog | #usegalaxy lights up northern skies eye-wateringly expensive alcohol, brown cheese and reproducible research at the Galaxy Community Conference in Oslo |
6 May 2013 |
Samuel Lampa
from Samuel's Tech Blog | Creating a Galaxy tool for R scripts that output images and PDFs XML wrapper and R code |
10 Apr 2013 | Contributors | Virtualization at URGI Documents creation of virtual machine ISO image |
21 Feb 2013 |
Brad Chapman
from CloudBioLinux Repo | Genome download & indexing using Galaxy rsync servers Python script in CloudBioLinux |
25 Jan 2013 | Quang Trinh | Launch a customized modENCODE Galaxy on Amazon Web Services A HOWTO guide |
1 Jan 2013 |
Kostas Karasavvas
from RubyGems.org | Create Galaxy Tool from Taverna 2 Workflow The workflow-to-galaxy Ruby Gem |
Dave Clements, ...
from the Galactic Blog | nn Galaxy Resources You Should Know About - 2019 Edition Resources that will help you use Galaxy in your research |