Hans-Rudolf Hotz

HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program On 5 February 2026, our Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the adoption of HPC Carpentry as the fourth official lesson program of The Carpentries, alongside the Data Carpentry, Library Ca...

From The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org | HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program | #HPC #OpenScience #Education 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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🤔 What are life science companies' approaches to open source software and workflows? In the ELIXIR report, we revealed three ways companies engage with OSSWs:
🔵 Open source first 🔵 Open source support 🔵 Open source ingestion

📄 Read the report: https://loom.ly/88rZbdo

New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version!
It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Promotional banner for Galaxy Community Conference 2026 with a purple gradient background. The banner features an illustrated scene of Clermont-Ferrand, France, including a volcano, cathedral spires, colorful buildings, and a hot air balloon. Text reads: “Galaxy Community Conference 2026,” “Help support global, open science… Become a Sponsor for GCC2026!” and lists benefits including “Global audience,” “Real scientific impact,” and “High community engagement.” It includes the event dates June 22–24, 2026, followed by CoFest June 25–26, 2026, and a QR code with the text “Learn more!” pointing toward it.

🌍 Help support global, open science.
We’re welcoming sponsors for #GCC2026 in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Connect with a global scientific community and support real research impact.

Learn more: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc20...

🍎 Upcoming training: Galaxy Metagenome Training Course 2026
Hosted by @denbi.bsky.social, this hands-on training on metagenomic data analysis using Galaxy will focus on reproducible, accessible workflows.

Learn more & register: www.denbi.de/training-cou...

Universität Basel: Bioinformatician (100%) The Department of Biomedicine (DBM) is a joint effort between the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. It unites basic and clinical scientists to advance our understanding of health...

We have a 3-years position open in our facility. Come join us to do great science in a nice team!
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Banner for the Galaxy Training Academy with the headline “Join our global online training event.” Subheading reads “Call for trainers and helpers” and “Teach your favorite tutorial or contribute a new track.” Date listed as 18–22 May 2026 with a link to gxy.io/GTA2026-trainer. The Galaxy Training Academy logo appears on the left, a colorful circular Galaxy graphic on the right, and a simple line drawing of a classroom with a teacher and students at the bottom.

🧑‍🏫 Help shape the Galaxy Training Academy 2026!

We’re looking for trainers, co-trainers, track organizers, and Slack helpers for GTA2026 (May 18–22, 2026).

Interested in teaching or supporting learners in Galaxy?

Sign up here: forms.gle/e971zSYbjNR4...

Applications are now open for our PhD and MD-PhD Programs! 🎓🔬
Join us in Basel—Europe’s life sciences hub—and pursue cutting-edge science in a vibrant, international environment.
Apply by April 20 at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Connecting Humanities Data: Analyzing DaSCH data on Galaxy We're excited to announce the collaboration between DaSCH, the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities, and the data analysis platform Galaxy.

Connecting Humanities Data with Galaxy
The DaSCH and Galaxy are collaborating to link FAIR humanities data with reproducible analysis workflows. A new example shows how historical prints from 1494 were made machine-readable in Galaxy using OCR.
galaxyproject.org/news/2026-02...

Don't forget to apply! We are grateful to have several scholarship options this year, including those from the Galaxy Community Fund. It's sure to be a fantastic GCC!

Graphic celebrating a milestone for the Galaxy Training Network. Large text at the top reads “Congratulations to the Galaxy Training Network on 500+ tutorials!” Below is a screenshot of the Galaxy Training Hall of Fame page showing statistics: 517 contributors, 35 topics, 501 tutorials, and 10.6 years. The “501 tutorials” box is highlighted with a red starburst. A world map with contributor locations appears beneath the statistics.

🎉 Time to celebrate! The Galaxy Training Network just passed 500 tutorials!
Free. Open. Community-built. Reproducible.
Powered by 500+ contributors worldwide, making data analysis accessible to everyone.
Be sure to check out this amazing team and the GTN, here: training.galaxyproject.org

💫 We're hiring! The Computational Biology Facility is looking for a Computational Proteomics Scientist to collaborate on cutting-edge proteomics projects, develop new analytical approaches, and publish impactful research.
Apply by April 12 at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

We are thrilled to announce that "Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They Are Wrong!)" has just been published! This is the result of passionate discussions, collaborative debates, and a shared commitment to clarifying what Galaxy @galaxyproject.bsky.social truly is and what it can do.

Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) Author summary Galaxy is a free, community-built web interface that helps scientists analyse data in a way that’s easy to use, transparent and reproducible. While it is widely used in biology and othe...

From @bebatut.bsky.social @abretaud.bsky.social @hrhotz.bsky.social et al. in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) | #Bioinformatics #Education #UseGalaxy 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 CC/ @galaxyproject.bsky.social
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📣 Good #PhD supervision is not only about more meetings, but about better ones.

Members of the EU-LIFE Recruitment & Training WG respond to a recent Nature Editorial, arguing that supervision quality must be institutionally ensured, not left to individual PIs alone.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How a sweet treat can change memories Memories must be flexible so animals can adapt when the world changes. FMI neuroscientists found that in fruit flies, simply tasting a sugar reward again can weaken all previous associated memories. T...

Now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: neuroscientists in the lab of @felsenberg.bsky.social found that in fruit flies, re-tasting a sugar reward can weaken past memories, pointing to new ways to safely update harmful ones. www.fmi.ch/news-events/...

Ten simple rules for teaching data science arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874

1: Teach data science by doing data analysis
2: Use participatory live coding
3: Give tons of practice and timely feedback
4: Use tractable or toy data examples
5: Use real and rich, but accessible data sets

#Opensource software and workflows are doing a lot of heavy lifting 🏋️ in the life sciences! Let's revisit ✨ ELIXIR's report on "Open source software and workflows: a driving force for innovation in life sciences" to find out the importance of #OSSWs 👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17570133

BRC Analytics logo

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)

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

@mikelove.bsky.social : There was PyDESeq2, and now there is rust_deseq2! crates.io/crates/rust_...

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.

galaxyproject.org/news/2026-02...

We are excited to announce that the Genome Browser now includes a dynamic track group that automatically displays all currently visible tracks in one convenient location.

The group has more than 32 tracks available for a genome assembly.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4qj1jt7

We are excited to introduce Hub Space, a new hosting service that enables users to upload and visualize track hub files directly on the UCSC Genome Browser without relying on third-party hosting services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or AWS.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NTZBkq

Did you miss the last @denbi.bsky.social & @ghga.bsky.social Knowledge Series session on "Galaxy for analysis of human health data"?
No worries—it's now available on our YouTube channel! 📺
Catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hm1...
#Bioinformatics #Galaxy #HumanHealth #deNBI #GHGA

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...

📣 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)

I am excited to present @galaxyfreiburg in a panel of #LoveDataweek with my colleagues from the Central Data Facility and the DH Lab next week:

What counts as “research data” in the humanities? How can we get and responsibly manage that data?

Join us for an interactive talk that answers these […]

Registration now open for CSAMA!
📜 csama2026.bioconductor.eu

Highly recommend for learning data science with a scenery, plus a fantastic crowd of students and faculty alike!

📸 from the traditional mid-week hike during last year’s edition.

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.

nu.edu.sd/official-ann...

F1000Research Article: Strengthening bioinformatics education: e-learning initiatives across ELIXIR Nodes and Communities. Read the latest article version by Monique Zahn-Zabala, Minna Ahokas, Bérénice Batut, Sebastian Beier, Alexander Botzki, Alexia Cardona, Kristina Gruden, Eija Korpelainen, Maria Lehtivaa...

From Monique Zahn-Zabala & colleagues in #F1000Research | Strengthening bioinformatics education: e-learning initiatives across ELIXIR Nodes and Communities | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 #Bioinformatics #Education #OpenEducationalResources #OpenScience CC/ @elixir-europe.org
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