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The Galaxy Project powers global life sciences analytics by turning the world’s most advanced cyberinfrastructure into a free, browser-based analysis platform for everyone. https://galaxyproject.org/
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⏳ Reminder: Early bird registration for GCC2026 closes February 28, 2026!

Join us in Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 22–24, followed by CoFest June 25–26.

Learn more and register now: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...
Promotional banner for Galaxy Community Conference 2026 featuring an illustrated scene of Clermont-Ferrand with a volcano, cathedral spires, colorful buildings, and a hot air balloon. Text reads: “Galaxy Community Conference 2026. Clermont-Ferrand, France. June 22–24, 2026. Followed by CoFest: June 25–26, 2026. Early bird registration closes February 28th!”
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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🧑‍🏫 Help shape the Galaxy Training Academy 2026!

We’re looking for trainers, co-trainers, track organizers, and Slack helpers for GTA2026 (May 18–22, 2026).

Interested in teaching or supporting learners in Galaxy?

Sign up here: forms.gle/e971zSYbjNR4...
Banner for the Galaxy Training Academy with the headline “Join our global online training event.” Subheading reads “Call for trainers and helpers” and “Teach your favorite tutorial or contribute a new track.” Date listed as 18–22 May 2026 with a link to gxy.io/GTA2026-trainer. The Galaxy Training Academy logo appears on the left, a colorful circular Galaxy graphic on the right, and a simple line drawing of a classroom with a teacher and students at the bottom.
February 11, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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🎓 GCC2026 scholarships are open!

The JXTX Foundation and JJ Fund are offering scholarships to support graduate students and postdocs attending the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Apply by March 15: jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-12...
Purple banner for the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 featuring the Galaxy logo at the top, the text “Don’t miss GCC2026! JXTX + JJ Fund Scholarships” and “Apply by March 15th, 2026.” Conference artwork showing a cathedral and volcano appears in the top right, with the JXTX Foundation logo, a pair of galaxy-themed sneakers, in the top left. The tagline “Collaborate. Discover. Empower Data Science.” appears at the bottom.
February 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.20.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1900+ with 5000+ assemblies, and over 400 assemblies getting gene track data mirrored from VEuPathDB.org. (1/3)
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February 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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We’re excited to announce Rayan Chikhi (Institut Pasteur, France) as the Keynote Speaker at GCC2026!
His talk explores how assembling and indexing the world’s sequencing data enables biological discovery at scale.

Explore all Highlighted Talks: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...
Promotional graphic for the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 featuring a headshot of keynote speaker Rayan Chikhi. The image includes the Galaxy logo and conference title at the top, and text identifying him as “Keynote Speaker: Rayan Chikhi,” with the session title “Assembling and exploring the world’s sequencing data for biological discovery.”
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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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.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-01-12-tool-credentials-system/

##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC
Screenshot showing the credentials interface in a tool form
January 22, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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Stop by the Galaxy booth at ##PAG33 to get snacks and talk with us about how we can help you get FREE, reproduceable, publishable high performance computing workflows. Currently serving hazelnut and maple cookies, plus PB cups!
photo of a few Galaxy folks at the Galaxy booth at PAG
January 12, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Join us Friday 12/12 at 10AM EDT for our monthly Tools for Tomorrow BRC webinar! Anton demos C. auris analysis identifying a novel adhesin for skin colonization. Free tools from brc-analytics.org & usegalaxy.org. Info&Reg: https://gxy.io/brc-webinar
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December 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Ran the same literature search through Claude Code and ChatGPT. Found ZERO papers in common despite using identical databases. Both searches were useful in finding what I need, but lack of overlap was ... slightly concerning. The lesson: AI tools are powerful but limited. Use multiple (1/2)
Claude vs. ChatGPT
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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🚀 Galaxy is workflows! Check out the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC) - a curated library of Galaxy workflows that makes data analysis accessible to everyone. Community curated, ready to use!

Learn more: https://iwc.galaxyproject.org
Watch: https://youtu.be/cBHSYrpMV8s

##Galaxy (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Reprocess and refine the single-cell results of MERSCOPE experiments
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-05-19-vpt/

##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC ##Spatial_transcriptomics ##MERSCOPE
Quality control 1 Quality control 2 Bellavista IT
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.17.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1900+ and over 5000 assemblies from all across the taxonomic spectrum, and more improvements to searching ENA and the workflow config UI. (1/3)
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November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🧠 Your Galaxy history too complex?
Name tags make it easy to track dataset origins and relationships across analyses—no endless renaming needed https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-11-4-tags/

##GalaxyProject ##Bioinformatics ##Reproducibility
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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🐛 Galaxy not working? Don't suffer in silence — report it! Use the built-in reporting feature when something goes wrong. Read more here: https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-30-squish-the-bug/ Let's make Galaxy better together!
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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RSpace joins the Galaxy
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-06-23-rspace-integration/

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##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC ##ELN ##RDM ##RSpace
RSpace joins the Galaxy
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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There is a little known Galaxy feature called "window manager". See how to use it ... https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-28-window-manager/
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Use parallel-download to get data from NCBI SRA. See how here -> https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-23-sra-download/
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Specification for RO-Crate 1.2 released
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-06-04-ro-crate-1-2-release/

##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC ##EuroScienceGateway ##rocrate ##fair ##research_data ##research ##data
RO-Crate RO-Crate preview
October 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Galactic views on the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI):
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-08-29-cordi/

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The Galaxy Freiburg team at CoRDI
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Discover one of Galaxy’s true superpowers — dataset collections! 🌟
Check out the blog (https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-21-whycollections/) and video (https://youtu.be/yehY9tR_NX8?si=YH9CZ5KGWm2yVyPA) to see how they can simplify your workflows.
You might just find yourself wondering, (1/2)
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Flexynesis: bridging multi-omics complexity with transparent AI for Cancer research and beyond
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-16-flexynesis-nature-comms/

##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC ##UniFreiburg ##NatureCommunications ##ScientificResearch ##deeplearning ##precision_medicine ##open_science
graphical abstract
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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1–3 Oct 2025, Freiburg: European Galaxy Days, ELIXIR Galaxy, and EuroScienceGateway members convened to align roadmaps and turn plans into solutions, tools, and workflows through talks, demos, and a CoFest.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-15-egd2025/

##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC (1/2)
EGD2025 Group photo taken by Pavan Videm
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The Galaxy single-cell and spatial omics community (SPOC) is thrilled to share the latest updates on tools, datasets, and collaborative initiatives driving open and reproducible single-cell and spatial omics research in 2025.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-14-spoc-cellgenomics/ (1/2)
Galaxy single-cell and spatial omics graphical abstract
October 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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If you missed the inaugural all-BRC webinar last week, a video is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DtuD2YTCT30

Presenters introduced the three BRCs (BV-BRC, PDN and BRC-Analytics) in a tight 30 minutes.

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BRC webinar infographic
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.16.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1400+ and a nearly 2000 assemblies (adding many bacteria and helminths), and some significant improvements to searching ENA and the workflow config UI. (1/2)
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October 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM