The October 2018 Galactic News is here! This is a summary of what is going on in the Galaxy community. Here's what's happening:

• Events

  • 2018 SACNAS Workshops Still space, still free!
  • European Galaxy Days, 19-20 November, Freiburg, Germany
  • 2019 Galaxy Admin Training
  • All upcoming events

• New:

  • 200 publications, including 10 highlighted ones
  • Three new Galactic Blog entries (one of them contains a Galaxy Song)
  • Open positions with 5 organizations
  • Public Galaxy Server News
  • ToolShed contributions
  • Releases
• And other news too

If you have anything to add to next month's newsletter, then please send it to outreach@galaxyproject.org.

Events

Tired of sitting in the same old office/lab/cafe table? Here are some upcoming events to help get you out and about.

2018 SACNAS Pre-conference Workshops

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If you will be anywhere near San Antonio, Texas on October 10 then please consider participating in one of these SACNAS preconference workshops. You don't need to be registered for the 2018 SACNAS meeting to attend. Everyone is eligible and the workshops are free.

Software and Data Carpentry

Data Platforms for Life Science Researchers

Registration is free but space is limited. You are strongly encouraged to register soon. Both workshops are held October 10, the day before SACNAS starts.

Register Now

Plese note: The Galaxy Community Fund is augmenting SACNAS Travel Scholarships awards for the first ~ 28 scholarship recipients that register for these workshops. The additional funds will cover an extra night's lodging for scholarship recipients, enabling you to arrive the day before the workshops. Funds are limited, and once the funds are allocated, they are gone. (You must have received a SACNAS Travel Scholarship to be eligible.)

European Galaxy Days, 19-20 November, Freiburg, Germany

European Galaxy Days will be held 19 and 20 November 2018 in Freiburg, Germany. The first day will give an overview of the current state of the Galaxy framework with several talks and demonstrations. The second day will focus on developing and extending the Galaxy ecosystem.

The event is free and registration is open. See the event home page for more.

2019 Galaxy Admin Training

Galaxy Admin Training will be offered January 28 through February 1 at Penn State University, where the Galaxy Project got started over ten years ago. The workshop is split into a 2 day introductory session and a 3 day advanced topics session. Participants can register for one or both sessions.

Registration is open. Early registration rates end October 31st.

See the Galaxy 2019 Admin Training page for more details.

Upcoming events

These and other Galaxy related events are coming up in the next few months:

Date	Topic/Event	Venue/Location	Contact
October 1st 2018	Reference-based RNA-seq data analysis	理研 革新知能統合研究センター（日本橋）, Tokyo, Japan	Atsushi Asai
October 1st 2018	Pitagora Meetup	理研 革新知能統合研究センター（日本橋）, Tokyo, Japan and Online	Atsushi Asai
October 2nd 2018	Genome assembly using Galaxy	QFAB, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia	training@qfab.org
October 4th 2018	ELIXIR CZ Proteomics Workshop 2018	IOCB AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic	Björn Grüning
October 5th 2018	GTN - Instructor Community - First meeting (version 2)	Online	Berenice Batut
October 8th 2018	Workflow4Experimenters 2018 Course	Pasteur Institute, Paris, France	Gildas Le Corguillé
October 10th 2018	**SACNAS 2018 Pre-Conference Workshops**	2018 SACNAS, San Antonio, Texas, United States	Camille Avestruz, Tracy Teal, Blake Joyce, Dave Clements, Joslynn Lee
October 15th 2018	**Galaxy @ eResearch Australasia**	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Presenters
October 15th 2018	Analyse RNAseq sous Galaxy	Station marine de Roscoff, France	christine.mantecon @upmc.fr
October 16th 2018	Bioinformatique - Analyse avancée de séquences	Bordeaux, France	Intervenants
October 17th 2018	Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine using Galaxy: see it, do it, teach it	VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Celia van Gelder
October 18th 2018	Introduction to Galaxy & the Genomics Virtual Laboratory	University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Melbourne Bioinformatics
October 23rd 2018	Introduction to Galaxy Australia: Differential Gene Expression from Bacterial RNA-seq Data	Universities: Melbourne, Queensland, Southern Queensland, Sydney, New South Wales, Adelaide, James Cook, Monash, Tasmania; Australia
**November 12th 2018**	BioHackathon 2018 Paris	Campus des Berges de Seine, Paris, France	Bérénice Batut, Hervé Ménager
November 13th 2018	Galaxy for NGS Data Analysis	UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States, and Online	Weihong Yan
November 14th 2018	Analyse des données RNA-Seq sous l'environnement Galaxy	Lyon, France	contact@biosciencesco.fr
November 19th 2018	RNA-seq analysis in Galaxy	National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States	mo@galaxyproject.org
**November 19th 2018**	European Galaxy Days	Freiburg, Germany	Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Björn Grüning, Jean-François Dufayard
November 28th 2018	Computational Genomics	CSHL, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States	James Taylor
December 6th 2018	Molecular Dynamics and Analysis using BRIDGE	Cape Town, South Africa	Organizers
January 28th 2019	**2019 Galaxy Admin Training**	Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States	Instructors
July 1st 2019	**2019 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2019)**	Freiburg, Germany	Organizers

Publications

200 new publications referencing, using, extending, and implementing Galaxy were added to the Galaxy Publication Library in September.

Highlighted Publications

10 Galactic and Stellar publications.

Publication Topics

New Galactic Blog Posts

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There are three new Galactic Blog entries:

• Hybrid training delivers online participatory training to far-reaching venues, by Christina Hall

• Tutorial of the Month: Maria Doyle selected "From peaks to genes", by Bérénice Batut

  • This is the first of a new monthly series about GTN Tutorials.
• Contributor of the Month: Yvan Le Bras, By Björn Grüning

Who's Hiring

The dark energy^* of irreproducible research is threatening the science universe! Please help the Galaxy expand!

• Bioinformatics Cloud Architect, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, United Kingdom
• Scientist (f/m), NGS bioinformatics core facility, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
• Galaxy Developers, Intero Life Sciences, United States.
• Freiburg Galaxy Team has open positions, Freiburg, Germany
• The Blankenberg Lab in the Genomic Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute is hiring postdocs.
• Galaxy Project is hiring software engineers and postdocs at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Have a Galaxy-related opening? Send it to outreach@galaxyproject.org and we'll put it in the Galaxy News feed and include it in next month's update.

Public Galaxy Server News

Public Galaxy Servers is becoming something ... more

In October the venerable Public Galaxy Server list and the relative upstart Galaxy Services list will be replaced with a unified directory that includes public servers, cloud services, and VMs and containers that support Galaxy.

Here's what's new:

Public Servers/Resources in Publications

We tag papers that use, mention, implement or extend public Galaxy servers, services and other resources. Here are the counts for the past month's publications:

Tools

ToolShed Contributions

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Tool Shed contributions in September 2018.

Releases

New additions to the Galaxy Community.

Other News

The Galaxy Training Network is starting a Community for Galaxy Instructors. This group will share best practices for giving Galaxy workshops and provide support for new instructors to get involved with Galaxy Training! Catch the first meeting October 5th, details here.