Galaxy US
The homepage of the US Galaxy community
Galaxy is an open-source platform for FAIR data analysis that enables users to:
- use tools from various domains (that can be plugged into workflows) through its graphical web interface.
- run code in interactive environments (RStudio, Jupyter...) along with other tools or workflows.
- manage data by sharing and publishing results, workflows, and visualizations.
- ensure reproducibility by capturing the necessary information to repeat and understand data analyses.
The Galaxy Community is actively involved in helping the ecosystem improve and sharing scientific discoveries.
News
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!
Using Claude AI for Literature Searches
LLMs for literature search produce 'interesting' results: It is almost useful
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.
Galaxy Powers FAIR Data: The BERD@NFDI B-Plan Use Case Shines at EOSC Symposium 2025
At the EOSC Symposium 2025, a standout example was the BERD@NFDI B-Plan use case, a project demonstrating how the Galaxy Europe platform provides the analytical engine to transform complex, unstructured planning data into FAIR research assets for the entire European research community.
Events
Jan 9 - Jan 14PAG 33 Plant and Animal Genome Conference
Join PAG 33 to explore breakthroughs in plant and animal genomics and bioinformatics.
Mar 9 - Mar 13Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy
This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy
May 4 - May 8European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2026
A Data Terra session to the European Geoscience Union
Jun 22 - Jun 272026 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2026)
The annual gathering of the Galaxy Community with opportunities to hear latest developments, get training, and meet everyone involved.
Jul 12 - Jul 16Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2026
Join ISMB 2026 in Washington, DC, and celebrate over 30 years of advancing computational biology!