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An Ode to Helena - from the 🥓Bacon Brigade

@gtn:hexylena, as a key member of the phenomenally creative and passionate Galaxy Training Network team alongside @gtn:shiltemann and @gtn:bebatut, pioneered the concept of Training Infrastructure

Bioinformatics Projects Pathway for Students: New insights from public data!

With a huge thanks to ELIXIR-UK’s DaSH Fellowship funding, we are delighted to present our new Learning Pathway, “Bioinformatics Projects: Using deconvolution to get new insights from old bulk RNA-seq”.

Call for Trainers and Helpers for the Galaxy Training Academy 2025

🌠 Join the GTA2025 and support the event

SPOC HDR UK ELIXIR-UK CoFest 2025: How did it go?

We held our second 🖖🏾SPOC CoFest, in the great tradition of the excellent CoFests organised in the GTN that welcomed @gtn:nomadscientist and many others into the community.

BioNT basic curriculum Round Two - Starting in autumn 2024 with the RNA-Seq and Python Workshops

BioNT basic curriculum Round Two - Starting in autumn 2024 with the RNA-Seq and Python Workshops

GTN’s Gift for 2024

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🚀 2024: A SPOC-tacular Year in Review 🌌

As we orbit the end of another stellar year, let’s engage warp drive and reflect on the out-of-this-world achievements of the **Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community (SPOC 🖖)**. From launching new tools to charting new tutorials, SPOC’s journey through the Galaxy (platform) has been nothing short of cosmic! 🌠

The GTN joined the BioNT Community Event & CarpentryConnect - Heidelberg 2024

The Galaxy Training Network joined the BioNT Community Event & CarpentryConnect - Heidelberg 2024

🖖🏾Galaxy SPOC Community: Year in Review

🚀 2024: A SPOC-tacular Year in Review 🌌

Organizing GTA2025: Give us feedback and your availability!

Give us feedback and your availability for the GTA 2025

SPOC CoFest 2024: How did it go?

First SPOC CoFest

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

New Tutorial: Tracking of mitochondria and capturing mitoflashes

We are happy to share that a new imaging tutorial for Tracking Mitochondria and Capturing Mitoflashes is now available in the Galaxy Training Network!

Massive open online education party: The Galaxy Training Academy

Galaxy Administrator Time Burden and Technology Usage

Have you wondered how difficult Galaxy is to run? How much time people must spend to run Galaxy? In February 2024, we collected 9 responses from the Galaxy Small Scale Admin group

Open Call for Trainers for the Galaxy Training Academy

We are happy to announce the Galaxy Training Academy 2024, a global online training event, where learners can get to know Galaxy and learn how to analyze data for various research topics.

Celebrating the Milestone: 400 Tutorials on the Galaxy Training Network!

The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) has reached an exciting milestone: our 400th tutorial! This achievement is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our community of educators, researchers, and developers over the last 9 years.

New Galaxy training: Building an amplicon sequence variant (ASV) table from 16S data using DADA2

The GTN hosts its 400th tutorial: Building an amplicon sequence variant (ASV) table from 16S data using DADA2

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All GTN training data are now automatically mirrored via Onedata

As part of the EuroScienceGateway and in cooperation with Onedata and EGI we are providing all GTN training data on a publicly accessible cloud storage

Introducing GTN Event Pages

Are you organizing a training event using GTN materials? You can now add your event directly to the GTN!

Open Galaxy Position at Galaxy Europe Team, University of Freiburg

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Perfectly FAIR Training!

We are happy to report that over the years of our fruitful collaboration with ELIXIR TeSS, all GTN materials should receive a perfect score on the FAIR-Checker.

Open Galaxy Positions at Melbourne Bioinformatics

Melbourne Bioinformatics is expanding their team and recruiting three new roles to work on bioinformatics training, outreach, and research.

Learn to use MINERVA Platform’s COVID-19 Disease Map with Galaxy

As part of the work of BeYond COVID, we have developed a new integration between the MINERVA Platform’s COVID-19 Disease Map and Galaxy! Datasets created within Galaxy can now be seamlessly visualized in the MINERVA Platform, allowing you to explore your data in the context of the COVID-19 Disease Map.

New Learning Pathway for FAIR Data Management developed by ELIXIR-UK Data Stewardship Fellows and Experts

ELIXIR-UK’s Data Stewardship Fellowship is excited to announce a new learning pathway focused on FAIR Data Management! This program equips researchers and research support staff with the skills to effectively manage their research data.

Cool URLs Don’t Change, GTN URLs don’t either.

At the Galaxy Training Network we are really committed to ensuring our training materials are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable

Lost in a topic? Try a Learning Pathway!

We know the GTN has a lot of learning materials (400 and counting!) which can make it quite difficult to figure out where to start in some topics.

GTN ❤️ GMOD

Building upon the work previously done for the SARS-Cov-2 Topic we have further expanded the ‘tag based topics’ to support a new GMOD topic.

Using Galaxy & TIaaS to teach hands-on genome assembly and annotation

On Feb. 27 to Mar. 3, we (several VGP-associated instructors) used the UseGalaxy EU infrastructure to aid in teaching an online Physalia course of 40+ students how to assemble and annotate their own genome from their browser.