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Purple banner for the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 featuring the Galaxy logo at the top, the text “Don’t miss GCC2026! JXTX + JJ Fund Scholarships” and “Apply by March 15th, 2026.” Conference artwork showing a cathedral and volcano appears in the top right, with the JXTX Foundation logo, a pair of galaxy-themed sneakers, in the top left. The tagline “Collaborate. Discover. Empower Data Science.” appears at the bottom.

🎓 GCC2026 scholarships are open!

The JXTX Foundation and JJ Fund are offering scholarships to support graduate students and postdocs attending the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Apply by March 15: jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-12...

Of course, if you have organisms/assemblies you'd like to see added, or have suggestions about funtionality, let us know!

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#BRCAnalytics (3/3)

Additionally, we've added a "Learn" section with several FAQs and HOWTOs along with a few white papers demonstrating the use of BRC-Analytics.org, one looking at evolutionary dynamics in measles and another using AI to standardize RNA-Seq analysis in C. auris. (2/3)

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We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.20.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1900+ with 5000+ assemblies, and over 400 assemblies getting gene track data mirrored from VEuPathDB.org. (1/3)

Galactic Weekly: Week 5, 2026 Weekly summary of activity across 150+ galaxyproject repositories

🗞️ Check out the Galactic Weekly! A quick roundup of recent Galaxy updates, community news, and upcoming events.

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https://cdf.uni-freiburg.de/en/events/2026-02-09-love-data-week.html

#UseGalaxy #GalaxyProject #EOSC #EuroScienceGateway (2/2)

📣 LOVE DATA week with intro to Galaxy & GTN

Celebrate international LOVE DATA week with a series of free online and in person events focused on RDM, including a session on Galaxy and the GTN.

📍 Online
📅 9 February 2026
🔗 More info & registration: (1/2)

PAG33 Meeting Report Galaxy returned to PAG33 with a community-focused workshop and its first-ever exhibition booth, highlighting recent advances in genomics, microbiome research, machine learning, and training.

Galaxy had another great year at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference!

Galaxy returned to PAG33 with a hands-on workshop and our first-ever exhibition booth, connecting with the community around reproducible genomics, microbiome research, ML, and training.

galaxyproject.org/news/2026-01...

Official Announcement: Launch of Galaxy NUBRI The National University Biomedical Research Institute (NUBRI) at the National University–Sudan is pleased to announce the launch of Galaxy NUBRI (https://nubri.usegalaxy.eu), Sudan’s first cloud-based...

🇸🇩Galaxy NUBRI is now live; Sudan’s first cloud-based bioinformatics platform, developed by the National University Biomedical Research Institute at National University–Sudan, with support from Galaxy Europe.

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JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship

The JXTX Foundation will provide support to 3 outstanding graduate students in genomics and data sciences to attend the Biology of Genomes meeting at CSHL (meetings.cshl.edu). The deadline is Jan 31 and just takes a short bio and abstract: https://gxy.io/jxtxbog26

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Promotional graphic for the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 featuring a headshot of keynote speaker Rayan Chikhi. The image includes the Galaxy logo and conference title at the top, and text identifying him as “Keynote Speaker: Rayan Chikhi,” with the session title “Assembling and exploring the world’s sequencing data for biological discovery.”

We’re excited to announce Rayan Chikhi (Institut Pasteur, France) as the Keynote Speaker at GCC2026!
His talk explores how assembling and indexing the world’s sequencing data enables biological discovery at scale.

Explore all Highlighted Talks: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...

Introduction to Galaxy Analyses / From peaks to genes / Hands-on: From peaks to genes Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and data and analysis persistence and publishing platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have ...

🧬 Learn how to go from genomic regions to gene annotations in Galaxy!

The From Peaks to Genes tutorial introduces core Galaxy concepts using a ChIP-seq example, covering data import, interval operations, workflows, and reproducible analysis.

galaxyproject.github.io/training-mat...

🎓 GCC2026 Fellowships are now open!
We’re offering multiple fellowship opportunities to support early-career researchers and new Galaxy users attending GCC2026 in France.

🗓️ Apply by March 15, 2026

galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...

Screenshot showing the credentials interface in a tool form

Galaxy 25.1 introduces a powerful new credentials system that lets tools securely access external APIs and services with encrypted secret storage and a streamlined user experience.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-01-12-tool-credentials-system/

#UseGalaxy #GalaxyProject #EOSC

Integration of the Dataverse with Galaxy Galaxy users can now connect to a Dataverse as a repository source, browse and search datasets directly from the Upload dialog, import files into histories and utilize them for scientific analyses.

Galaxy + Dataverse = better data sharing
Galaxy now integrates with Dataverse, making it easier to publish, access, and reuse research data directly within your workflows, supporting FAIR and reproducible science.

Learn more: galaxyproject.org/news/2026-01...

📢 Registration and abstract submission are now open for GCC2026!
Join the Galaxy community June 22–24, 2026, in Clermont-Ferrand, France, for three days of science, training, collaboration, and community. Followed by CoFest (June 25–26). We hope to see you there!

galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...

Introducing the Zip Explorer: Import individual files from ZIP archive Preview the contents of local or remote ZIP archives, explore rich RO-Crate metadata, and import only the files you need directly from the Galaxy interface.

New on Galaxy!
Explore ZIP archives without downloading them using the new ZIP Explorer. Preview files, inspect contents, and streamline your workflows—all directly in Galaxy.

Learn more: galaxyproject.org/news/2026-01...

https://www.denbi.de/de-nbi-events/2006-the-de-nbi-elixir-de-and-ghga-knowledge-series-galaxy-for-analysis-of-human-health-data

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#UseGalaxy #GalaxyProject #NFDI #Bioinformatics (2/2)

📣 Galaxy for analysis of human health data

A webinar in the de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE and GHGA knowledge series

📍 Online, Global
📅 14 January 2026, 13:00 CET
🔗 More info & registration: (1/2)

photo of a few Galaxy folks at the Galaxy booth at PAG

Stop by the Galaxy booth at #PAG33 to get snacks and talk with us about how we can help you get FREE, reproduceable, publishable high performance computing workflows. Currently serving hazelnut and maple cookies, plus PB cups!

At #PAG33? Stop by the Galaxy booth to get snacks and talk with us about how we can help you get FREE, reproduceable, publishable high performance computing workflows. #Assembly, #Transcriptomics, #Epigenetics, and much more!

GPU-accelerated genome mapper Parabricks FQ2BAM is now in Galaxy NVIDIA Parabricks GPU-accelerated FQ2BAM is now available in Galaxy, bringing FASTQ-to-BAM alignment runtime to just a few minutes for 2.5 GB paired-end human whole-genome datasets. Its runtime is ben

remain essentially identical to CPU-based alignment—while delivering a major speedup for Galaxy workflows.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-12-15-fq2bam/

#UseGalaxy #GalaxyProject #EOSC (2/2)

NVIDIA Parabricks GPU-accelerated FQ2BAM is now available in Galaxy, bringing FASTQ-to-BAM alignment runtime to just a few minutes for 2.5 GB paired-end human whole-genome datasets. Its runtime is benchmarked against BWA-MEM2 and BWA across five runs and shows that mapping and QC metrics (1/2)

Get ready, PAG33! 🌱🧬
Galaxy will be at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference this week & next — hosting a workshop (Tuesday, Jan 13, 4:00 PM) and hanging out at Booth 531. Stop by and talk genomics with us!

2026 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2026) The annual gathering of the Galaxy Community with opportunities to hear latest developments, get training, and meet everyone involved.

Get ready for GCC2026!
Join the Galaxy community June 22–24, 2026, in Clermont-Ferrand, France, to learn new tools, share your work, and connect with researchers and developers from around the world. Followed by CoFest on June 25–26.

galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...

Galaxy 2025 Year in Review 650K+ users, 186M+ jobs, ~15K commits across the ecosystem

2025 was a big year for the Galaxy Project, with new tools and features, major community milestones, expanded training efforts, and research powered by Galaxy across disciplines. Take a look back at what the community accomplished together!

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Happy New Year from the Galaxy Project!
As we step into a new year, we want to thank our incredible global community of users, developers, trainers, and contributors.
Here’s to another year of collaboration, innovation, and discovery!

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

The latest Galaxy Newsletter is out!

As 2025 comes to a close, this issue celebrates 20 years of the Galaxy Project, highlights new research powered by Galaxy, shares updates from the Galaxy Training Network, and looks ahead to community events in 2026.

galaxyproject.org/news/2025-12...

Galaxy 25.1 is here! 🚀 New card-based history UI, Sample Sheets for complex workflows, enhanced Tool Discovery, Galaxy Charts with IGV.js browser, Recent Exports page, workflow editor search, redesigned User Preferences & more!
https://gxy.io/r/v25.1

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Join us Friday 12/12 at 10AM EDT for our monthly Tools for Tomorrow BRC webinar! Anton demos C. auris analysis identifying a novel adhesin for skin colonization. Free tools from brc-analytics.org & usegalaxy.org. Info&Reg: https://gxy.io/brc-webinar