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Daily schedule
The schedule is where you can discover what’s happening when at GCC2024. List of talks as well as list of posters are available lower on the page and you can download the abstract book here.
| Day | Time | Event | Room(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Jun 24 | 8:30 - 8:45 | Open and welcome | BCD |
| 8:45 - 9:45 | Keynote by Jana Klánová | BCD | |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Morning break | Atrium | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Talks (single track) | BCD | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | Restaurant Lucullus | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Trainings I | B, C, D, M1, M2 | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Posters + coffee | A | |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Trainings II | B, C, D, M1, M2 | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | BoFs | B, C, D, M1, M2 | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | GCC2024 Welcome Happy Hour | Siesta Lobby & Wine Restaurant | |
| Tuesday, Jun 25 | 8:45 - 9:00 | Overview of dinner tours | BCD |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | What's up in the Galaxy: Community update talk | BCD | |
| 9:45 - 10:10 | Morning break | Atrium | |
| 10:10 - 12:00 | Talks (2 tracks) | BC, D | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | Restaurant Lucullus | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Trainings I | B, C, D, M1, M2 | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Posters + coffee | A | |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Trainings II | B, C, D, M1, M2 | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | BoFs | B, C, D | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Conference dinner | Mendel's Abbey | |
| Wednesday, Jun 26 | 8:30 - 8:45 | Overview of activities on Wednesday afternoon | BCD |
| 8:45 - 9:45 | Keynote by Ute Gunsenheimer | BCD | |
| 9:45 - 10:10 | Morning break | Atrium | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Gold sponsor talk: JXTX Foundation | BCD | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Panel discussion | BCD | |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Group photograph | Atrium | |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch | Box lunch | |
| 13:00 - ... | Tour of Villa Tugendhat. Walking tour of Brno. Fun BoFs. | Brno | |
| Thursday, Jun 27 | 8:30 - 8:45 | Feedback session | BCD |
| 8:45 - 9:45 | Keynote by Daria Onichtchouk | BCD | |
| 9:45 - 10:10 | Morning break | Atrium | |
| 10:10 - 12:00 | Talks (2 tracks) | BC, D | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | Restaurant Lucullus | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Trainings I | B, C, D, M1, M2 | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Afternoon break | Atrium | |
| 14:30 - 16:30 | Trainings II | B, C, D, M1, M2 | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Talks (single track) & conference closing | BCD | |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | BoFs | B, C, D, M1 | |
| Friday, Jun 28 | 9:00 - 18:00 | CoFest | OPEN GARDENS |
| Saturday, Jun 29 | 9:00 - 18:00 | CoFest | OPEN GARDENS |
Talks
Monday: 10:00 - 12:00
Tuesday: 10:10 - 12:00
Thursday: 10:10 - 12:00
Thursday: 16:30 - 17:15
Posters
Monday: 14:00 - 16:00
| Poster # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | BioDigs: a GDSCN Project; |
| 2 | Galaxy activities in Czech Republic; |
| 3 | Galaxy-ML2: Simple, Powerful, and Robust Machine Learning Tools for Galaxy; |
| 4 | Maintaining and improving a large collection of workflows; |
| 5 | Driving Decisions with Data: Introducing the Key Usage Indicators (KUI) for Galaxy Project Governance; |
| 6 | The AquaINFRA platform: A research data infrastructure for marine and inland waters; |
| 7 | Developing Interactive Neutron Science Applications using Galaxy; |
| 8 | ABRomics: a Galaxy-based One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Platform; |
| 9 | Investigation of Plasmids of Lactoplantibacillus plantarium L3 strain Using Whole Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatics Assay; |
| 10 | Community-driven standards development for reference genome generation; |
| 11 | Pairing Data Analysis Methods with Sequencing Products to Meet Scientist’s Needs. What Do People Want?; |
| 12 | WALL·E – Prevent Abuse of Interactive Research Environments; |
| 13 | Galaxy's Future: Bridging Interoperability and Execution Challenges; |
| 14 | Democratizing access to genomics data science education through GDSCN; |
| 15 | In silico analysis of the ribosomal DNA copy number in animal species; |
| 16 | Exploring the Richness of the French Galaxy Ecosystem; |
| 17 | microGalaxy SIG: microbial data analysis resources in Galaxy; |
| 18 | Expanding Horizons: Single-Cell Multiomics Analysis Tools in Galaxy; |
| 19 | MetaSBT in Galaxy: towards a comprehensive investigation and characterization of the microbial dark matter; |
| 20 | Automating Social Media Outreach: A GitHub Workflow for Galaxy Community; |
| 21 | Takeaways from teaching long-read genome assembly using Galaxy; |
| 22 | Enhancements to UseGalaxy.org Client-Facing Error Reporting for Optimized Functionality and Risk Mitigation; |
| 23 | Bacterial Community Associated with Native Blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of Pahang National Park, Malaysia: A Metagenomic approach; |
| 24 | GHGA - Standardizing and harmonizing NGS analysis workflows to create a unified omics data resource for Germany; |
| 25 | Exploring the metatranscriptome of two moss species (terrestrial and aquatic) using Galaxy platform; |
| 26 | Hosting Galaxy at the Edge: Directly in Your Pocket!; |
| 27 | Enabling access to scalable bioinformatics with Galaxy in AnVIL; |
Tuesday: 14:00 - 16:00
| Poster # | Title |
|---|---|
| 28 | TES job submission and streamlined data transfers; |
| 29 | MAdLand computational resources through Galaxy; |
| 30 | The Galaxy Platform: Applications to Catalysis Workflows; |
| 31 | Automated Reference Genome Assembly in Galaxy - An Update; |
| 32 | Long-read genomes from diverse outbred dogs; |
| 33 | Using Galaxy and Integrated Genome Browser to study tardigrade biology; |
| 34 | Visualizing Workflow Runs in Galaxy: The Graph View for Workflow Invocations; |
| 35 | Upgrading User Experience: Introducing the New Galaxy UI; |
| 36 | Data access architecture at "Galactic" scale: what's new and what's next; |
| 37 | DevOps techniques for developing and integrating tools in Galaxy; |
| 38 | Genomics and transcriptomics of Fusarium musae from human and banana; |
| 39 | Infrastructure for Estimating Cloud Computing Costs for Bioinformatics Workloads; |
| 40 | Colabfold: Fast and Accurate Protein Folding in Galaxy; |
| 41 | Expansion and Updates of the Galaxy Mass Spectrometry Imaging Tool Collection: New Statistical Tools and a New Workflow for Region Specific Analysis; |
| 42 | Integration of ANPDB with Usegalaxy: Empowering Drug Discovery; |
| 43 | Galaxy @Sciensano: Implementation of Galaxy as a bioinformatics tools portal in an applied public health context; |
| 44 | Giving the Single Cell Community the Tools It Needs on Galaxy – an ELIXIR Staff Exchange Project; |
| 45 | Transcriptome Analysis of Triphyophyllum peltatum, a Liana producing Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids using Galaxy Framework; |
| 46 | Portability of a variant analysis workflow to Galaxy: Rabdomyzer case study; |
| 47 | Galaxy workflow for bacterial genomics exploration and chitin utilization enzyme identification: A case study exploring the Streptomyces albogriseolus PMB5 genome; |
| 48 | Aqua Metagenomic Analyses Using Galaxy Reveals an Admixture of Organisms Associated with Diverse Environments; |
| 49 | Exploring Earth’s Aerobiome through Similarity Search Analysis; |
| 50 | Implementing a new Galaxy integration to export datasets to COPO; |
| 51 | In Silico Analysis on Antimalarial Properties of Satureja Myrtifolia and Helichrysum Taenari; |
| 52 | Automating Galaxy: Enhancing Production Pipelines with Galaxy-wf-executor; |
| 53 | EDAM enables findability – from biomolecular sciences to imaging, ecology, and society; |
| 54 | Toolkit Galaxy MLA computational intelligence toolset for biological sciences that is expandable, reproducible, and easily approachable; |
| 55 | An Update on the FragPipe Galaxy Tool for Proteomics Workflows; |
| 56 | The potential of GlobalFungi and GlobalAMFungi databases for Galaxy; |
BoFs
Monday: 18:00 - 19:00
| Title: | microGalaxy SIG with BioDIGS and GDSCN (room B) |
| Description: |
The microGalaxy Special Interest Group (SIG) is a group of researchers and bioinformaticians who collaborate to develop and optimise scientific analytical for microbial data using the Galaxy platform. This SIG aims to (i) develop, maintain, and sustain microbial data analysis in Galaxy, (ii) establish and implement standardised "best practices", (iii) expand documentation and training resources, (iv) coordinate collaborative efforts to avoid redundancy and prioritise tools, workflows, and training (v) outreach to the microbiology research communities both within and outside the Galaxy. In this BoF, we will talk about the recent efforts of the community (tools, workflows, training, resource catalog, papers) and plan efforts for the next months. We will also discuss the GDSCN and BioDIGS projects, which are looking to get interested researchers and students involved in soil metagenomics. |
| Organizers: | Alex Ostrovsky, Tyler Collins, Michael Schatz |
| Title: | Efficient Data Management in Galaxy: Accessing and Processing Large Externally Stored Data (room C) |
| Description: | In the era of big data, the ability to manage and process vast, often distributed datasets efficiently is crucial for scientific research and data-driven decision-making. In this Birds of a Feather (BoF) session we want to discuss the challenges and strategies associated with handling large amounts of data stored externally - on tape, an HPC filesystem, experimental facility, cloud platforms, etc., within the Galaxy platform. A crucial aspect of this session will be the collection of requirements and experiences from diverse scientific domains, including photon, neutron, muon science, astronomy, and others. We will also exchange experiences from various institutions, such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) who developed the Rucio object store plugin for data management. By understanding the unique needs and challenges of these fields, we aim to gather valuable insights to discuss with Galaxy developers about what can be done to develop more tailored and effective solutions for data management in Galaxy. We would also like to discuss Galaxy deferred datasets and see to what extent they can help address the issue. |
| Organizers: | Denys Savchenko, Volodymyr Savchenko, Sergey Yakubov |
| Title: | Key Usage Indicators for Galaxy (room D) |
| Description: | The Key Usage Indicators dashboard for Galaxy (available at gxy.io/kui) is new community resource that focuses on exposing usegalaxy service usage data for easy consumption. In this BoF, we will discuss topics such as what data to capture, how to visualize it, how to use it, as well as go over the technical implementation details in search of improvements. Join this BoF if you are interested in using service usage data to craft the future of Galaxy. |
| Organizer: | Enis Afgan |
| Title: | The Art of Phylogeny: Where Science Meets Creativity (room M1) |
| Description: | Join us for an engaging Birds of a Feather (BoF) session where we delve into the fascinating intersection of art and science through the lens of phylogenetic trees. Discussions will cover the artistic softwares and techniques used to enhance their visual appeal, and real-world applications in both research and education. We will explore how these trees, which represent evolutionary relationships, can be both scientifically informative and visually captivating. This session is designed to inspire and attract enthusiasts from diverse fields, sparking conversations on the creative potential of scientific visualization. |
| Organizer: | Drielli Canal |
| Title: | Small scale Galaxy Admins Community of Practice (room M2) |
| Description: | We are a group of admins who maintain a (small) (local) Galaxy server. In this BoF we would like to attract other Galaxy admins to join us. After a general introduction of our community, we would like to discuss (and solve) any current issue we face as a Galaxy admin - in a similar style (though in person) to our on-line meetings which we have every two months. |
| Organizers: | Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz |
Tuesday: 18:00 - 19:00
| Title: | Galaxy-Pulsar network traffic visualization (room B) |
| Description: | The network of Galaxy and Pulsar installations is growing steadily. For both operation oversight and dissemination purposes it is desirable to visualize the flow of jobs and data transfers as a map overlay; several isolated attempts to do so have been already done. The BoF goal is to discuss ideas what is the traffic to visualize, how to render it, what data are required to do so, and how these data can be gathered. |
| Organizers: | Aleš Křenek, Miroslav Ruda |
| Title: | The future of Galaxy in EOSC (room C) |
| Description: | Galaxy is and has been used by at least 7 different EOSC projects. With the EuroScienceGateway project we could build up national Galaxy instances and a European wide Pulsar Network, EGI technologies could be integrated and Galaxy's is reaching 100.000 and more users in Europe. In this BoF we would like to discuss the releatonship between EOSC and Galaxy, how to reach more communities and what comes after the EuroScienceGateway proejct. |
| Organizers: | Bjoern Gruening |
| Title: | Galaxy Training Academy Organizational Meet-Up (room M1) |
| Description: | Inspired by the huge success of Smörgåsbord, the Galaxy Training Academy will be held October 7th-11th, 2024. This global, online, and asynchronous event will have multiple training tracks from a variety of trainers throughout the Galaxy community. Whether you hope to attend, hope to host a training session, or just want to show your support, join us in this BoF session to offer your ideas and suggestions for the Galaxy Training Academy! |
| Organizer: | Delphine Lariviere |
Thursday: 17:30 - 19:00
| Title: | Galaxy Collaborative Writing Group (room C) |
| Description: | Are you interested in collaborating on research papers? This gathering is an excellent opportunity for GCC2024 attendees to connect and explore potential research partnerships. This session will provide a platform to discuss potential topics, share resources, and establish partnerships for current and future research projects. Whether you're looking for collaborators with specific expertise or are open to exploring new ideas, this session aims to foster meaningful collaborations within the Galaxy community. |
| Organizer: | Marisa Loach |
| Title: | Galaxy for MS (G4MS) (room D) |
| Description: | Discuss published mass spectrometry tools and workflows available in GTN. Discuss the need for new tools with emerging technologies and research areas. Proteomics research - current status and needs. Metabolomics research - current status and needs. How to continue with MS/proteomics/Metabolomics community calls. |
| Organizers: | Johan Gustafsson, Pratik Jagtap, Melanie Föll, Helge Hecht |
| Title: | Namaste: Galaxy Bharat (room M1) |
| Description: | The session is to discuss about the progress and possibilities of UseGalaxy in Bharat i.e India. Who are interested to join in this boat and sail with us. How are we doing now? How to sustain until the funding is obtained? What are expectations/suggestions from other UseGalaxies while usegalaxy.in is coming up. |
| Organizer: | Kiran K Telukunta |
| Title: | Galaxy's release process (room M2) |
| Description: | Discussion of the Galaxy Release process and any improvements we can make to it. Topics can include release cycle, timing, naming, release testing (scope, infrastructure, teams), release notes, announcements, and anything else you can think of! |
| Organizers: | John Davis, Dannon Baker |
| Title: | WF invocation UI feedback (room B) |
| Description: | Galaxy UI has a set of new powerful features such as the WF invocation graph view. We would like to invite users to do a quick analysis that will be provided to them and collect their feedback. |
| Organizer: | Anton Nekrutenko |
Social Programme
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will take place in the Augistinian Abbey at Mendel's square, the place where Gregor Mendel conducted his experiments. The price for a ticket is EUR70 excluding VAT. During the dinner, participants have free access to the Mendel Museum. Please remember to bring your conference badge to dinner.
Participants may join the guided tours of the abbey including Mendel's room and the library shortly before (staring 18:30 & 19:15) or after the dinner (starting 21:00).
The venue is a 15 minute walk from Hotel International down Pekařská on Mendlovo Naměstí. Alternatively, you can take trams 5 and 6 from Šilingrovo Naměstí to Mendlovo Naměstí.
Wednesday Afternoon
The social programme will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday the 26th and will give you an opportunity to explore the city and its sights with an experienced guide, rather than on your own. Please note that places for all activities are limited.
| Day | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, Jun 26 | 14:00 | Don's Walk | Denisovy Sady |
| 14:30 | Vila Tugendhat - Group 1 | Vila Tugendhat | |
| 15:00 | Vila Tugendhat - Group 2 | Vila Tugendhat | |
| 16:00 | Guided Walking Tour | Moravské Naměstí |
City Tours
Join us on one of the guided tours offered as part of this years Galaxy Community Conference. Our first guided tour of the city titled "Brno Ringstrasse" with Don Sparling, founder of the Brno Expat Centre, is drawing a comparison to the architecture of Vienna and will show you the city from a unique perspective. Explore the main sights of the city centre in our guided tours organized by the Brno Tourist Information Centre, including the Old Town Hall, St Peter's Cathedral as well as the Freedom and Market Square.
Villa Tugendhat
Those interested in architecture will have the unique opportunity to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Villa Tugendhat in an exclusive guided tour for conference participants.
For more information on Villa Tugendhat, head to the travel page.
Additional ideas
Rock climbing hall
Hangar climbing playground is a state-of-the-art bouldering center designed in collaboration with world-class climber Adam Ondra. With over 1000 square meters of climbing area and more than 200 routes of varying difficulty, it offers an exciting experience for climbers of all levels.