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The Galaxy Project powers global life sciences analytics by turning the world’s most advanced cyberinfrastructure into a free, browser-based analysis platform for everyone. https://galaxyproject.org/
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!
January 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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 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
galaxyproject.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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
25.1 Galaxy Release (December 2025) — Galaxy Project 25.1.1.dev0 documentation
gxy.io
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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 10:06 PM
Have genome data that needs assembling? The Galaxy Training Network offers a comprehensive collection of tutorials to guide you through every step in an accessible, browser-based environment.

training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...
Assembly / Tutorial List
DNA sequence data has become an indispensable tool for Molecular Biology & Evolutionary Biology. Study in these fields now require a genome sequence to work from. We call this a 'Reference Sequence.' ...
training.galaxyproject.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🌱 DataPLANT was in Göttingen for the 1st Open Access Workshop, sharing insights on open science and FAIR plant data.

Catch the full story here: nfdi4plants.org/news/2025-11...
DataPLANT Participating and Presenting at 1st OA Workshop in Göttingen
The BIOIMAGE consortium, a method-centered initiative within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), held its All Hands Meeting at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf in early February. The...
nfdi4plants.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 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 10:14 PM
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 (1/3)
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📣 Happening this week!
Join the HeFDI Data School for Introduction to Galaxy – the open-source platform for FAIR data analysis (in German).
Learn how to analyse your data, explore research data management, and see how Galaxy supports reproducible science.

dataschool.hefdi.de/module/galax...
Einführung in Galaxy, die Open-Source-Plattform zur FAIRen Datenanalyse
Ein Einstieg in gutes Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) ist schwer - aber was, wenn FDM ein “Nebenprodukt” der Analyse wird und für Forschende die Einstiegshürde sowohl in digitale Analysen als auch fai...
dataschool.hefdi.de
December 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🌟Help grow the Galaxy Training Network!
The GTN is powered by community experts like you.
Whether you want to fix a typo, add a new tool, or write an entire tutorial, we’ve made it easy to get started. Explore our guides and jump into contributing here:
training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...
Contributing to the Galaxy Training Material / Tutorial List
Galaxy is a great solution to train the bioinformatics concepts: numerous bioinformatics tools are available (more than 7,000 in the ToolShed), it can be used by people without any computer science sk...
training.galaxyproject.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The ITCR Training Network is collecting community input to help shape future informatics and cancer-research training. Your feedback is incredibly valuable.

Take the survey: xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io/itn_follow_up/

Learn more about ITN’s programs: www.itcrtraining.org
survey
xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by Galaxy Project
The ITCR Training Network (ITN) www.itcrtraining.org develops training materials for informatics and research.

We have a short survey ~3-9 min about your experience & preferences for learning as a researcher. Previous engagement not required!

xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io/itn_follow_up/
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Join the newly formed Tool Developers Special Interest Group (SIG) to collaborate on high-quality tool maintenance and standardize best practices across the Galaxy ecosystem. This initiative offers a dedicated space for mentorship, peer review, and community-driven development for developers (1/2)
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Reposted by Galaxy Project
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
🚀 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
📣 Introduction to Galaxy, the Open-Source Platform for FAIR Data Analysis (in German)

Are you new to e-science? Do you want to learn ways to analyse your material with digital tools from your browser without any programming skills? Do you want to get an idea of research data management? (1/3)
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
At the EOSC Symposium 2025, the Polish EOSC Node demonstrated a complete FAIR research workflow powered by Galaxy and PLGrid’s Pulsar integrating data analysis, execution, and provenance tracking through Onedata. The presentation video and full details are available via the EOSC Node - (1/2)
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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. (1/2)
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reprocess and refine the single-cell results of MERSCOPE experiments
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-05-19-vpt/

##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC ##Spatial_transcriptomics ##MERSCOPE
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📣 Galaxy Ecology training and collabroation fest

As colleagues from CCAMLR / Antarctica conservation from Belgium are coming to Concarneau marine station to work on Galaxy Ecology use in their projects, we propose to create an open event, where colleagues from CCAMLR / Antarctica (1/3)
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
📣 How can I analyse my texts, media, and data in the humanities and social sciences?

You want to analyse your data, but do not know how? Do you want to consider good research data management, but do not know how? Galaxy is here for you!
This coffee lecture hosted by FDM Thüringen gives you (1/2)
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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 2:56 PM
Galaxy showed how 'one framework, one workflow, many communities' can run cross-disciplinary imaging analyses on the emerging EOSC Federation. Here is what we presented, with slides and video.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-11-13-eosc-symposium2025/

##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##EOSC (1/2)
One framework, one workflow, many communities: Freiburg Galaxy team at
Galaxy showed how 'one framework, one workflow, many communities' can run cross-disciplinary imaging analyses on the emerging EOSC Federation. Here is what we presented, with slides and video.
galaxyproject.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Data Terra, the EOSC thematic node for the environment, demonstrated how the Galaxy platform accelerates environmental research through interoperable, FAIR data workflows within the EOSC Federation. From satellite plumes to ecosystem blooms. (1/2)
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We’re inviting Expressions of Interest to join the GCC2026 Scientific Committee. If you’re passionate about open science, training, and community-driven research, we’d love to hear from you!

Please fill out the Expression of Interest form: forms.gle/gp4DhnCBA16n...
Expression of Interest for GCC2026 Sci Comm
Are you excited about being one of the first people to read abstracts folks submit for talks at GCC2025 and would like to participate in the scientific committee review process? If yes, fill out the ...
forms.gle
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM