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Galactic Weekly: Week 5, 2026

Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

Galaxy 2025 Year in Review

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

DataPLANT Presented Cloud Architecture and ARC RO-Crates at the 1st Open Access Workshop held in Göttingen

Freiburg Galaxy team recently joined experts in Göttingen for the 1st Open Architecture Workshop to help shape the future technical foundations of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The team presented their cloud-oriented architecture and shared critical insights from the PLANT DataHUB regarding scalable storage and the "Software as a Service" approach. Read the full report to discover how collaborative efforts and common building blocks, such as ARC RO-crates, are driving the development of a robust and interoperable data ecosystem.

Galaxy Powers FAIR Data: The BERD@NFDI B-Plan Use Case Shines at EOSC Symposium 2025

At the EOSC Symposium 2025, a standout example was the BERD@NFDI B-Plan use case, a project demonstrating how the Galaxy Europe platform provides the analytical engine to transform complex, unstructured planning data into FAIR research assets for the entire European research community.

Galaxy Tool Wrapping: Introducing the New Tool Developers SIG

Join the newly formed Tool Developers Special Interest Group (SIG) to collaborate on high-quality tool maintenance and standardize best practices across the Galaxy ecosystem. This initiative offers a dedicated space for mentorship, peer review, and community-driven development for developers of all experience levels.

Save the date: The Galaxy Training Academy 2026 will happen from May 18th to May 22th

🎉 We are excited to share that the Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) 2026 will take place next year, starting on 18 May 2026! 🎉

GTN joined the TEACH V to talk about education across Communities at Helmholtz

The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) had the pleasure of joining the “Talking about Education Across Communities at Helmholtz” (TEACH V) community conference, which took place in Berlin from September 29 to October 1.

We want you to help us organize the Galaxy Training Academy 2026

🎉 We are excited to announce that we have started planning the Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) 2026! 🎉

Galaxy Training Academy 2025: round two of out GTN education party!

The Galaxy Training Academy 2025 trained researchers in Galaxy data analysis world wide across a variety of scientific topics.

RO-Crate specification 1.2 released

Specification for RO-Crate 1.2 released

RO-Crate specification 1.2 released

Specification for RO-Crate 1.2 released

Lights, Camera... Hacking! Highlights from the Galaxy Imaging Hackathon 2025

Three days of collaborative hacking, coffee-fueled brainstorming, and community-powered innovation—Galaxy Imaging is growing, and so are its FAIR tools!

AquaINFRA, EOSC, and Galaxy: Co-Designing FAIR Services for Aqua Science

AquaINFRA project is going to use the Galaxy platform as the central component of their Virtual Research Environment (VRE).

GTN’s Gift for 2024

Community Pages

Organizing GTA2025: Give us feedback and your availability!

Give us feedback and your availability for the GTA 2025

Credit where it’s due: GTN Reviewers in the spotlight

We would like to recognise and thank all of the reviewers who have contributed to the GTN tutorials; your efforts are greatly appreciated, and we are grateful for your contributions to the GTN community

Enhancing the Galaxy Italian Community: Italy's National Galaxy Server

Viral pathogen data analysis beyond BY-COVID

A look back at the BY-COVID project and ahead to upcoming developments

Molecular Biology of Plants conference (MBP 2024)

Poster Presentation entitled MAdLand Tools & Resources

DOMPS Plant Science Seminar

Seminar talk entitled MAdLand Resources & Tools presented by Deepti Varshney and Saskia Hiltemann

Events (19)

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

E-Science-Tage 2025

The E-Science-Tage is an interdisciplinary conference series on research data management and open science. The Freiburg Galaxy team will present a poster on Galaxy's applicability in the humanities and offer a workshop.

Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB

Plant and Animal Genome Conference

Join us in San Diego to explore the latest in genomics, and don't miss the opportunity to attend a special workshop hosted by the Galaxy Project.

MAdLand Annual Meeting 2023

Galaxy Community Call: Muon Science community

A forum to share updates and discuss community-wide topics

Galaxy Community Call: Workflows, Planemo, BioBlend and tags to automate SARS-CoV-2 genome surveillance

A forum to share updates and discuss community-wide topics

Galaxy Metabolomics Community Call: Galaxy Interactive Tools - how to create and use them

Dan Blankenberg will present 'How to create and use Galaxy Interactive Tools'

Radiometabolomics: Identification of Metabolic Predictors of Radiation Late Effects

Plus recent developments and future plans in the Galaxy Metabolomics community

Galaxy Training Network day - (online) CoFest and community call

NGS data analysis with Galaxy for clinical applications

A joint GMDS and de.NBI tutorial

The Galaxy platform for metaproteomic characterization of microbiomes

at ABRF 2017

GCC2014

The 2014 gathering of the global Galaxy community

GCC2013

The 2013 gathering of the global Galaxy community

GCC2012

The 2014 gathering of the global Galaxy community