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One Day, Many Tool Updates: microGalaxy Hackathon Recap

Eight contributors, one day, and a pile of outdated metagenomics tools — here is what the October 14th microGalaxy hackathon achieved!

Galaxy Training Academy 2026: A Global Week of Learning

Galaxy Europe Goes Ocean: Ready for Ocean Hackathon 2026!

48 hours, ocean data and fresh ideas! Galaxy Europe's Earth System Sciences platform joins the Ocean Hackathon adventure.

ESG4Stars project launched

Efficient start of the ESG4Stars project with kick-off meeting, general assembly and first collaborative working days all in one week

LangChain Text Splitters, the Missing Link when Processing Long Texts with LLMs

Circumvent context window limits of LLMs by splitting long texts into manageable chunks

AI4SOCIAL+ Online Kickoff

AI4SOCIAL+ project kickoff meeting on 1st October 2026 online

BioFAIR Data to Discovery Single-Cell Training and CoFest

Highlights from a single-cell event in the UK and future opportunities to get involved with SPOC and BioFAIR.

microGalaxy Hackathon for Tool Development

Join the microGalaxy community on October 14th to update outdated metagenomics tools in the IUC repository!

Putting AI agents to the test with Galaxy

Across 160 bioinformatics tasks, agents using Galaxy achieved accuracy comparable to agents writing custom code.

New Publication "Bioimage management and analysis in Galaxy: Tools, workflows, training, and community practices"

The Image Analysis in Galaxy community is happy to share the first dedicated publication on bioimage data management, analysis, and community practices in Galaxy

Galaxy Imaging Training at the Boosting Biodata Bootcamp 2026

A Galaxy Imaging Training took place at the Boosting Biodata Bootcamp 2026 in Aachen

Connecting CKAN and Galaxy: from data repositories to analysis and back

Browse CKAN datasets in Galaxy, analyse using tools and workflows, and export results to CKAN.

Connecting openBIS and Galaxy: from lab data to analysis and back

Browse openBIS files in Galaxy, analyse them, and return results to your lab notebook

Last Few Spots left - Galaxy Tool Development Workshop, Registration Closes 14 September

Only a handful of spots remain for the 2nd Galaxy Tool Development Workshop in Freiburg (7-9 October 2026). Registration closes on 14 September, and remote participation is available.

Galaxy at the International IUSSI Congress 2026 — Exploring termite gut microbiome recovery

At IUSSI 2026 in Freiburg, Mina Hojat Ansari presented how reproducible, multi-layer metagenomic analysis in Galaxy helps investigate termite gut microbiome recovery after molting.

Galaxy Training Academy 2026: A Global Week of Learning

Galaxy Training Academy 2026 brought together more than 2,200 registrations from 108 countries for a free, global week of self-paced Galaxy training across 11 tracks.

Galaxy Newsletter September 2026

Explore Galaxy 26.1 and Galaxy Labs, welcome UseGalaxy Canada, see how Galaxy Australia is simplifying data movement, discover Galaxy-powered wildlife ecology and public-health workflows, and find jobs, training, and events across the community.

Updated Terms of Service for the European Galaxy Server (2026)

We have published a comprehensively revised set of Terms of Service for usegalaxy.eu and all its sub-sites. Please review the new Terms and agree to them to continue using the Service.

Genotyping Cyclospora: assessing current practices

The first post in a four-part BRC Analytics series on Cyclospora outbreak analysis: what public genomes, genotyping panels and sequencing data actually exist, and how an independent open implementation of the published eight-marker method is being built and validated in Galaxy.

The European Galaxy Project Website Is Now Fully Served by the Galaxy Hub

After ten years on a Jekyll-on-GitHub setup, galaxyproject.eu is now completely powered by the Galaxy Hub — a fast, metadata-driven home that any Galaxy community can reuse.