Galaxy is a user-friendly open-source web platform designed to facilitate accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research. It provides access to a vast collection of free-to-use, well-documented and maintained tools.

Galaxy Italy provides Elixir Italy users and beyond compute and storage resources for running several tools in different research domains. For more information, issues and suggestions please contact us by mail.

The Italian Galaxy server

The Italian Galaxy server UseGalaxy.it is maintained primarily by ELIXIR-ITALY, in collaboration with many academic groups across Italy. Please check our Terms of Use before using the server.

The following Institutions are actively providing resource to usegalaxy.it: CNR, INFN, University of Bari, Consortium GARR, CINECA and University of Milan.

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Laniakea

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Our Data Policy

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User data on UseGalaxy.it (i.e. datasets, histories) will be available as long as they are not deleted by the user. Once marked as deleted the datasets will be permanently removed within 14 days. If the user "purges" the dataset in the Galaxy, it will be removed immediately, permanently. In special cases, an extended quota can be requested for a limited time period.. Processed data will only be accessible during one browser session, using a cookie to identify your data. This cookie is not used for any other purposes (e.g. tracking or analytics). If UseGalaxy.it service is not accessed for 90 days, those datasets will be permanently deleted. The Galaxy service complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can read more about this on our Terms and Conditions.

Laniakea@ReCaS

The Laniakea@ReCaS service, based on Laniakea software stack, provides the possibility to automate the creation of Galaxy-based virtualized environments through an easy setup procedure, providing an on-demand workspace ready to be used by life scientists and bioinformaticians. At the end of the configuration process, the user gains access to a private, production-grade, fully customizable, Galaxy virtual instance. Laniakea features the deployment of a stand-alone or cluster-backed Galaxy instances, shared reference data volumes, encrypted data volumes and rapid development of novel Galaxy flavours for specific tasks.

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Vinyl

VINYL (Variant prIoritizatioN bY survivaL analysis) integrates an innovative method for variant prioritization, along with a highly curated collection of databases and resources for the annotation of human genetic variants.

CorGAT

CorGAT, the Coronavirus Genome Analysis Tool, is a novel, highly effective and user-friendly approach for the functional annotation of SARS-CoV-2 genomes based on Galaxy.

ITSoneWB

ITSoneWB (ITSone WorkBench) collects and integrates the high-quality ITS1 reference collection in ITSoneDB with DNA metabarcoding well-established analysis pipelines and new tools in an easy-to-use service addressing the eukaryotic domain of life.

PIPE-T

PIPE-T is the first Galaxy tool for parsing, filtering, normalising, imputing, and analysing RT-qPCR data. PIPE-T integrates the functionalities implemented in various R packages, such as HTqPCR, impute, and RankProd, in a simple, transparent, accessible, reproducible, and user-friendly environment.

News

New Interactive Tools Panel in Galaxy 25.0

New panel allocated for interactive tools on Galaxy

🔬 QuPath-Galaxy: Bringing digital pathology image analysis to your browser.

Explore whole slide images and run powerful tissue analysis directly in your browser with the QuPath-Galaxy interactive tool.

RSpace is now integrated with Galaxy

Analyze data with Galaxy, keep it under control on RSpace

Freiburg Galaxy team at the EGI 2025

From June 03rd to 6th, members from the Freiburg Galaxy team travelled to Santander, Spain to participate and present the EuroScienceGateway (ESG) project at the EGI2025 meeting

The Galaxy 25.0 Release is Live!

The latest Galaxy release is here and is packed with enhanced collection capabilities, streamlined workflow management, interactive tools and visualizations improvements, and new integrations to accelerate your research.

Events

Jun 23 - Jun 26Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference

Get ready for the first-ever Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference (GBCC 2025)! Join us in New York for an unforgettable event packed with cutting-edge bioinformatics workshops, inspiring keynotes, and amazing networking opportunities.

Jun 30 - Jul 4From Data to Discovery: Metagenomics, RNA-Seq - NGS Bioinformatics with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy

Jul 8 - Jul 9The first Galaxy Tool Development Workshop in Freiburg, Germany

Learn to build and publish Galaxy tools in our first hands-on workshop in Freiburg.