Galaxy Australia events

Galaxy-ELIXIR Webinar Series: FAIR data and Open Infrastructures to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic

The Galaxy Community and ELIXIR have organised a webinar series to demonstrate how open software and public research infrastructures can be used in analysing and publishing SARS-CoV2 data.

Session 1: Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy workflows for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis

30 April 2020, 17.00-18.00 CEST (starts at 16.00 BST, 11.00 EDT, 8.00 PDT) (01 May 2020 @ 1:00am AEST.)

The first session will introduce the Galaxy platform and other public research infrastructure to be used throughout the webinar series. It will also explain the motivation behind the Galaxy COVID-19 projects and explain the benefits of open reproducible research and transparent and interoperable analytics.

Programme Information and Registration

Speakers

Anton Nekrutenko, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University (USA) and co-founder of the Galaxy Project.
Frederik Coppens, Head of Node of ELIXIR Belgium and Co-Lead of the ELIXIR Galaxy Community
Sergei Pond, Professor of Biology, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University, US.