Galaxy Newsletter December 2025
From celebrating 20 years of Galaxy to highlighting this year’s releases, training milestones, and research breakthroughs, this final newsletter of 2025 reflects on how far the community has come and looks ahead to what’s next.
The Galaxy 25.1 Release is Live!
Galaxy 25.1 brings a modern card-based history interface with advanced keyboard navigation, powerful Sample Sheets for complex workflow inputs, an enhanced Tool Discovery view with EDAM ontology integration, the new Galaxy Charts visualization framework featuring IGV.js genome browser, a dedicated Recent Exports & Downloads page, visual indicators for short-term storage expiration, secure tool credentials and authentication management, workflow editor search capabilities, a redesigned User Preferences interface, and much more!
DataPLANT Presented Cloud Architecture and ARC RO-Crates at the 1st Open Access Workshop held in Göttingen
Freiburg Galaxy team recently joined experts in Göttingen for the 1st Open Architecture Workshop to help shape the future technical foundations of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The team presented their cloud-oriented architecture and shared critical insights from the PLANT DataHUB regarding scalable storage and the "Software as a Service" approach. Read the full report to discover how collaborative efforts and common building blocks, such as ARC RO-crates, are driving the development of a robust and interoperable data ecosystem.
