August 2015 Galactic News

The August Galactic News is out. It’s been a busy two months for the community. The News includes items on:

• Events:
  • A report on the 2015 Galaxy Community Conference
  • Details on the 2016 Galaxy Community Conference
  • August GalaxyAdmins Meetup
  • July Pitagora-Galaxy Meetup
  • Other upcoming events
• News of the, well, new:
  • 143 new papers, including 16 highlighted papers (this is what happens when you skip a month)
  • NGS 101 Tutorial Videos are Now Online
  • Genomic Data Science with Galaxy Launched on Coursera
  • Who’s Hiring
  • 5 new public Galaxy servers (did I mention that we skipped a month?)
  • Community Committers!
  • 3 new Community Log Board entries, and 2 new teaching resources
  • New Releases of BioBlend and Planemo
  • 76 Tool Shed updates and additions from 20+ contributors
  • And, of course other news as well.

Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team