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Galactic Weekly: Week 9, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Galaxy for Managing Workflows for the Next Generation of Compact Particle Accelerators

Researchers at STFC are developing vEPAC, a Galaxy-based end-to-end simulation framework for compact plasma accelerators, integrating laser modelling, plasma dynamics, and radiation transport into a unified computational workflow.

Jetstream2 + Galaxy = 518 VGP assemblies

IU-led Jetstream2 cloud computing and the Galaxy platform power the Vertebrate Genomes Project to produce 272 near error-free genome assemblies across 271 species.

Galactic Weekly: Week 8, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

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.

Bringing Climate, Ecology, and Earth System Science Together

Join Our Galaxy Earth-Climate-Ecology Room

Galactic Weekly: Week 7, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Galactic Weekly: Week 6, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Connecting Humanities Data: Analyzing DaSCH data on Galaxy

We're excited to announce the collaboration between DaSCH, the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities, and the data analysis platform Galaxy.

Galactic Weekly: Week 5, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

PAG33 Meeting Report

Galaxy returned to PAG33 with a community-focused workshop and its first-ever exhibition booth, highlighting recent advances in genomics, microbiome research, machine learning, and training.

Integration of the Dataverse with Galaxy

Galaxy users can now connect to a Dataverse as a repository source, browse and search datasets directly from the Upload dialog, import files into histories and utilize them for scientific analyses.

Introducing the Zip Explorer: Import individual files from ZIP archives

Preview the contents of local or remote ZIP archives, explore rich RO-Crate metadata, and import only the files you need directly from the Galaxy interface.

Secure Your Tools with Galaxy’s New Credentials System

Galaxy 25.1 introduces a powerful new credentials system that lets tools securely access external APIs and services with encrypted secret storage and a streamlined user experience.

GPU-accelerated genome mapper Parabricks FQ2BAM is now in Galaxy

NVIDIA Parabricks GPU-accelerated FQ2BAM is now available in Galaxy, bringing FASTQ-to-BAM alignment runtime to just a few minutes for 2.5 GB paired-end human whole-genome datasets. Its runtime is benchmarked against BWA-MEM2 and BWA across five runs and shows that mapping and QC metrics remain essentially identical to CPU-based alignment—while delivering a major speedup for Galaxy workflows.

Integration of the Hugging Face Hub with Galaxy

Galaxy users can now browse the Hugging Face Hub as a repository source, import models straight into their histories, and feed them into tools. A step-by-step example shows how to pull models from the Hugging Face Hub into Galaxy and then using the existing DocLayout-YOLO tool for document layout segmentation.

Galaxy Newsletter December 2025

From celebrating 20 years of Galaxy to highlighting this year’s releases, training milestones, and research breakthroughs, this final newsletter of 2025 reflects on how far the community has come and looks ahead to what’s next.

Galaxy 2025 Year in Review

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

European BioHackathon 2025 – FAIR Image Analysis in Galaxy (Project 9)

The Galaxy 25.1 Release is Live!

Galaxy 25.1 brings a modern card-based history interface with advanced keyboard navigation, powerful Sample Sheets for complex workflow inputs, an enhanced Tool Discovery view with EDAM ontology integration, the new Galaxy Charts visualization framework featuring IGV.js genome browser, a dedicated Recent Exports & Downloads page, visual indicators for short-term storage expiration, secure tool credentials and authentication management, workflow editor search capabilities, a redesigned User Preferences interface, and much more!