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BRC-Analytics (brc-analytics.org) is your new destination for analysis of biological data related to pathogens. Building on the legacy of VEuPathDb the platform will provide access and analysis capabilities for eukaryotic pathogens, hosts, and vectors.
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
December 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ran the same literature search through Claude Code and ChatGPT. Found ZERO papers in common despite using identical databases. Both searches were useful in finding what I need, but lack of overlap was ... slightly concerning. The lesson: AI tools are powerful but limited. Use multiple (1/2)
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Earlier this week, we released a paper titled "From data to publication in a browser with BRC-Analytics: Evolutionary dynamics of coding overlaps in measles virus" (https://gxy.io/brc-measles-wp). This walks through the analysis of a public set of measles RNA-seq data, all done FOR FREE.
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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🚀 Galaxy is workflows! Check out the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC) - a curated library of Galaxy workflows that makes data analysis accessible to everyone. Community curated, ready to use!

Learn more: https://iwc.galaxyproject.org
Watch: https://youtu.be/cBHSYrpMV8s

##Galaxy (1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.17.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1900+ and over 5000 assemblies from all across the taxonomic spectrum, and more improvements to searching ENA and the workflow config UI. (1/3)
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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If you're at Genome Informatics ##GI2025 this week, be sure to stop by the 3 Galaxy posters to chat with Delphine, Mike and Anton about great new things in Galaxy. (1/5)
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Congrats to all three recipients! To learn more about the James P. Taylor Foundation for Open Science and this scholarship, go to jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-01.... Enjoy the conference! [8/8]
JXTX Foundation Awards Scholarships for CSHL Genome Informatics 2025
JXTX: The James P. Taylor Foundation for Open Science is pleased to announce the 2025 CSHL Genome Informatics scholarship recipients.
jxtxfoundation.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The James P. Taylor Foundation for Open Science is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 JXTX+CSHL Genome Informatics Scholarships. JXTX provides support for students to attend conferences in CompBio and data science, where they can present their work [1/8]
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🧠 Your Galaxy history too complex?
Name tags make it easy to track dataset origins and relationships across analyses—no endless renaming needed https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-11-4-tags/

##GalaxyProject ##Bioinformatics ##Reproducibility
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Workflows by day, French wine and cheese by night 🍷🧀
Get ready to join us in Clermont-Ferrand, France for #GCC2026, June 22–26 2026! Learn, collaborate, and celebrate open science in the heart of Auvergne.

galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10...
GCC2026: The Galaxy Community is Heading to Clermont-Ferrand, France
Join us in June 2026 in the volcanic heart of Clermont-Ferrand for a week of collaboration, discovery, and open science.
galaxyproject.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🐛 Galaxy not working? Don't suffer in silence — report it! Use the built-in reporting feature when something goes wrong. Read more here: https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-30-squish-the-bug/ Let's make Galaxy better together!
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🌿 Will you be at #PAG33?
Galaxy will be in San Diego for the International Plant & Animal Genome Conference (Jan 9–14, 2026), and we’d love to know who from the Galaxy Community will be there!

Let us know 👉 forms.gle/26PRwMH46aho...
Galaxy Community at PAG33
Let us know you’ll be at PAG33! The Galaxy Project will be at the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG33) in San Diego, California, from January 9–14, 2026, and we’d love to know who ...
forms.gle
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Use parallel-download to get data from NCBI SRA. See how here -> https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-23-sra-download/
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Discover one of Galaxy’s true superpowers — dataset collections! 🌟
Check out the blog (https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-21-whycollections/) and video (https://youtu.be/yehY9tR_NX8?si=YH9CZ5KGWm2yVyPA) to see how they can simplify your workflows.
You might just find yourself wondering, (1/2)
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you missed the inaugural all-BRC webinar last week, a video is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DtuD2YTCT30

Presenters introduced the three BRCs (BV-BRC, PDN and BRC-Analytics) in a tight 30 minutes.

@bvbrc.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.16.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1400+ and a nearly 2000 assemblies (adding many bacteria and helminths), and some significant improvements to searching ENA and the workflow config UI. (1/2)
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reminder: on Friday we are hosting a webinar for the NIAID-funded BRCs at 14:00 UTC. To join, you must register here first:
https://gxy.io/brc-webinar-reg

@bvbrc.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Join us for a new webinar series run by the NIAID-funded BRCs. Monthly webinars will be held on the second Friday of the month @ 14:00 UTC starting on October 10. Focus will be resources and tools for the infectious disease research community.
https://gxy.io/brc-webinar-reg

@bvbrc.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Join us for a three-day hands-on AI Codeathon uniting experts to tackle critical challenges in infectious disease research using artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), sponsored by the NIAID BRCs.

Register: https://www.bv-brc.org/brc-niaid-ai-codeathon-2025

##UseGalaxy
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Register now for our upcoming Measles Bioinformatic Analysis Webinar. We hope to see you there!

Register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/26e362e7-0d72-4c6a-9e86-0fd306368dfd@24d967f1-3ed8-4448-baa6-560ec572acb3

##UseGalaxy ##BVBRC
July 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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🚀 Launching the Pathogen Data Network on Tuesday 29 April, 3pm CET with a webinar! Join us for a quick intro + live demo of tools supporting pathogen data sharing. #PDN #PathogenData #PublicHealth
Discover the Pathogen Data Network
Join us as we kick off the Pathogen Data Network, discovering the PDN's initiatives and software demos!
www.eventbrite.ch
April 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Video is now available for the BRC Analytics webinar that took place on Mar 26 where we demoed workflows for transcriptomics and variant calling. See the video here:
https://youtu.be/lYzb0j_UtWk

Please follow for more updates and to give feedback on https://BRC-Analytics.org

##UseGalaxy
April 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reminder: tomorrow (March 26, 1:00 EDT) is a BRC-Analytics/Galaxy webinar where we will update you on what's new in Galaxy and BRC-Analytics, including demonstrations of running transcriptomics and surveillance analysis workflows. Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93960440173

See (1/2)
March 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Join us on Wednesday, March 26 for a BRC-Analytics/Galaxy webinar where we will update you on what's new in Galaxy and BRC-Analytics, including demonstrations of running transcriptomics workflows on C. auris and surveillance analysis on P. vivax data. The webinar is at 1:00 EDT/19:00 CEST. (1/2)
March 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🗓️ Join us for a webinar on March 26, 1PM EDT where we will discuss functionality of https://BRC-Analytics as well as improvements to Galaxy as a whole, workflows as a primary topic. See

https://galaxyproject.org/events/2025-03-26-brc-galaxy-webinar/

for more information.

##UseGalaxy ##NIAID ##BRC
February 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM