Galaxy Australia news
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Galaxy Australia goes warp speed: 6 million jobs, new features and the team goes to GCC2023! |
29-05-2023 | |
Local conference striving to make data analysis easier |
26-05-2023 | |
Powering bioinformatics training with (free) computational infrastructure |
28-04-2023 | |
Cracking the code of Australia's most invasive species |
27-04-2023 | |
New podcast: Meet the RDA Life Sciences Infrastructure Interest Group |
26-04-2023 | |
Realising 'BYO data' goals |
28-02-2023 | |
Learn new biological data analysis skills at this free online global training event |
27-02-2023 | |
Join us in Brisbane for GCC2023! |
27-02-2023 | |
We did it: the 1st BioHackathon Europe - Australian Outpost |
21-12-2022 | |
Bioinformatics training needs of Australian researchers |
21-12-2022 | |
Memories of Simon Gladman from his workmates |
08-12-2022 | |
Remembering Simon Gladman |
28-11-2022 | |
BioCommons team and projects well represented at eResearch Australasia 2022 |
28-09-2022 | |
Enabling reproducible and portable workflows: Janis |
27-09-2022 | |
Global solutions are built on strong international connections |
26-09-2022 | |
Secrets of parasites uncovered through AI and Cloud computing |
31-08-2022 | |
Launching the Australian AlphaFold Service |
31-08-2022 | |
Data management solutions designed for Australian bioscience |
30-08-2022 | |
Popularity of Galaxy Australia prompts move of core services to AARNet |
28-07-2022 | |
Galaxy Australia to host next year's international Galaxy Community Conference |
21-07-2022 | |
Adding Australian life science research’s voice to global conversations |
24-06-2022 | |
Galaxy Australia featured in new publication about impact |
24-06-2022 | |
Ready-made training environments for uplifting computational science skills in plant biosecurity |
23-06-2022 | |
At last: local team finally travels to join international Galaxy community |
30-05-2022 | |
A new streamlined Galaxy Australia interface |
29-04-2022 | |
AlphaFold now available in Galaxy |
22-02-2022 | |
Virus research tips Galaxy Australia over 3 million jobs |
28-01-2022 | |
Leveraging Galaxy Australia to teach proteomics |
14-12-2021 | |
October Galactic News! |
10-10-2021 | |
Galaxy Australia updated to 21.05 |
24-08-2021 | |
June Galactic News! The June 2021 Newsletter is here. GCC2021 starts this month; James Taylor Video; plus a whole lot more. |
01-06-2021 | |
2021 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2021) - Early registration closes 8th June The 2021 Galaxy Community Conference is almost upon us. GCC2021 will be held 28 June through July 10. |
01-06-2021 | |
2021 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2021) - Poster/Demo abstracts due 14th June The 2021 Galaxy Community Conference is almost upon us. GCC2021 will be held 28 June through July 10. |
31-05-2021 | |
May Galactic News! The May 2021 Newsletter is here. Deadlines for GCC2021 and for submitted James Taylor videos have been extended, and there are updates on other upcoming events (4 in Australia), news about public Galaxy platforms, recent blog posts, training and doc updates, recent open-access Galaxy-related publications, and new releases. |
04-05-2021 | |
GCC2021 Abstract and Fellowship Submission, and Early Registration Deadlines Extended Several deadlines for the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2021) have been extended. |
04-05-2021 | |
GCC2021 Registration is Open Please join us at Galaxy's annual community gathering. It will be online, accessible, and affordable to all. |
14-04-2021 | |
April Galactic News! The April 2021 Newsletter is out with updates on upcoming events, news about public Galaxy platforms, recent blog posts, training and doc updates, recent open-access Galaxy-related publications, and new releases. |
14-04-2021 | |
Apply for a GCC2021 Conference Fellowship If you are a student or researcher in a developing economy, then please consider applying. Fellowships cover all conference costs. Applications are due 7 May. |
14-04-2021 | |
GCC2021 Abstract Submission is open If you are using, supporting, or expanding Galaxy for data-intensive science then this is an ideal way to share your work with, and gain insights from the global Galaxy Community. Abstracts are due 7 May. |
14-04-2021 | |
Galaxy Australia update to 21.01 |
21-03-2021 | |
Galaxy Career Center We are pleased to announce the launch of the Galaxy Career Center. The Galaxy community is continually searching for new developers, bioinformaticians, system administrators, and researchers. The Career Center lists openings from around the world that use, deploy, enhance and administer Galaxy. |
19-03-2021 | |
March Galactic News! |
18-03-2021 | |
2021 Google Summer of Code Galaxy is again participating in Google Summer of Code as part of the Open Genome Informatics Consortium. And we need your help, of course. |
17-03-2021 | |
GTN Smörgåsbord Report (Spoiler alert: it was awesome.) The recently completed GTN Smörgåsbord course was the largest and most global Galaxy event ever, and it was absolutely incredible. Read the report to find out how. |
16-03-2021 | |
February Galactic News! |
08-02-2021 | |
Galactic News January 2021 |
08-01-2021 | |
Summer Holiday Support The Galaxy Australia support team are on leave from 5pm, Thursday, 24 December 2020 until 9am, 4 January 2021. We will respond to your request after the holiday shutdown period. |
22-12-2020 | |
CloudBridge Release 2.1.0 CloudBridge is a Python library that provides a consistent layer of abstraction over different Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud providers, reducing or eliminating the need to write conditional code for each cloud. |
09-12-2020 | |
Galaxy Version 20.09 Feature Summary Video |
09-12-2020 | |
Galactic News December 2020 |
09-12-2020 | |
Galaxy Version 20.09 Released Galaxy 20.09 has now been released!
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24-11-2020 | |
Galactic News November 2020 |
10-11-2020 | |
Galactic News October 2020 |
10-10-2020 | |
Galactic News September 2020 |
02-09-2020 | |
Galaxy Version 20.05 Released Galaxy 20.05 has now been released!
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01-07-2020 | |
Galactic News July 2020 |
01-07-2020 | |
Galactic News June 2020 |
18-06-2020 | |
The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2020 update If your use of Galaxy Australia leads to publication, please cite this paper to help promote the value of the Galaxy Australia platform to reproducible science. |
03-06-2020 | |
Galactic News May 2020 |
07-05-2020 | |
The James Taylor Foundation: Big shoes to fill JTech: Junior Training and Educational Connections Hotspot |
07-05-2020 | |
Leaders in Australian Computing Research Begin Battle with COVID-19 NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre are supporting the Australian and international research community undertaking COVID-19 research through provision of streamlined, prioritised and expedited access to computation and data resources. |
21-04-2020 | |
Galaxy Australia COVID-19 dedicated Pulsar Galaxy Australia relies on remote (to head node) deployments called Pulsar to increase the range and number of jobs that can be run on the service. The team has been allocated resources on the Nimbus cloud to deploy a dedicated COVID-19 Pulsar as part of Galaxy Australia at the Pawsey Centre that allows Galaxy users to rapidly analyse their data on published tools/workflows to further research into SARS-CoV-2. |
21-04-2020 | |
We just lost James Taylor (1979-2020) We just lost James Taylor (1979-2020). His legacy — open, reproducible science — will continue. |
03-04-2020 | |
Galaxy Australia upgraded to Galaxy version 20.01 Galaxy Australia has been upgraded to the latest Galaxy release. Version 20.01.
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16-03-2020 | |
Galaxy Version 20.01 Released Galaxy 20.01 has now been released!
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01-03-2020 | |
Galaxy Australia contributes to global research effort into COVID-19 A joint paper by Galaxy teams from Australia, Europe and the United States demonstrated how the COVID-19 genome data can be shared, analysed and reproduced in an efficient and transparent way. Find the paper at https://www.biocommons.org.au/galaxy-covid-19 and the workflows ready for use here in Galaxy Australia under Shared Data / Workflows. |
27-02-2020 | |
GVL version 5 released! The Genomics Virtual Lab (GVL) has had an update to version 5! |
16-02-2020 | |
Galaxy Training Network - Survey We need your input on preparing and giving Galaxy Training |
31-01-2020 | |
One millionth job! Galaxy Australia has now processed over 1 million jobs! The tool run for the one millionth job was DeepTools bam coverage and completed at 8:55am on Wednesday the 29th of January 2020. |
29-01-2020 | |
Summer Holiday Support Galaxy Australia will be minimally administered during the university shutdown period from 24th December 2019 to the 2nd January 2020. During this time, only essential maintenance will be performed. No disk quota modifications, tool installations or reference data installation or upgrades will be performed. |
17-12-2019 | |
Galaxy Australia upgraded to Galaxy version 19.09 Galaxy Australia has been upgraded to the latest Galaxy release. Version 19.09.
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11-12-2019 | |
Galactic News December 2019 |
06-12-2019 | |
Nanopore tools installed Nanopore tools installed
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28-10-2019 | |
Australian BioCommons Data Survey Calling all Australian life science researchers who move data!
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07-10-2019 | |
Galactic News October 2019 |
06-10-2019 | |
Galactic News September 2019 |
26-09-2019 | |
Galactic News August 2019 |
16-08-2019 | |
Galaxy Australia moves to new hardware Galaxy Australia moves to the new QRIS cloud stage 5 hardware
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07-08-2019 | |
Galaxy Australia upgraded to Galaxy version 19.05 Galaxy Australia has been upgraded to the latest Galaxy release. Version 19.05.
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25-06-2019 | |
Galaxy Australia wins three Queensland iAwards 7 June 2019 |
07-06-2019 | |
Text processing tools disabled Text processing tools have been disabled due to security concerns with one of it's dependencies. We will re-enable these tools once the security patch has been developed and applied. |
02-05-2019 | |
Galaxy Australia upgraded to Galaxy version 19.01 Galaxy Australia has been upgraded to the latest Galaxy release. Version 19.01.
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09-04-2019 | |
Resolved - Service Slow Down 20-22 March 2019. You may have noticed that Galaxy Australia was slow to respond from the 20th - 22nd of March 2019 - This has been resolved. Upon investigation the slow down was caused by a live migration of some of the backend storage to a new faster platform. The migration is mostly completed and our normal excellent level of service was resumed on the 23rd March. |
25-03-2019 | |
New FTP upload URL Galaxy Australia has recently changed the URL for FTP uploads. If you need to upload large files to Galaxy Australia, simply log in to the FTP server at ftp://ftp.usegalaxy.org.au/ with your favourite FTP software using your Galaxy Australia credentials. For help visit the tutorial. |
18-03-2019 | |
Galactic News March 2019 Galactic News March 2019 |
14-03-2019 | |
Galaxy Version 19.01 Released Galaxy 19.01 has now been released!
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06-03-2019 | |
New tools added: Heatmaps and VSearch This week we have added a number of new tools to Galaxy Australia |
27-02-2019 | |
Tutorial of the Month: Prokka The Galaxy Project Training Network's tutorial of the month for January/February 2019 is "Annotation of Bacterial Genomes with Prokka" chosen by our own Simon Gladman. |
12-02-2019 | |
Galaxy Server Maintenance Galaxy Australia will be undergoing maintenance for 2 hours on the 20th February 2019 from 10:00am AEDT. It will be getting: * a new landing page * the tool panel will be updated to match usegalaxy.org and usegalaxy.eu * the backend will be upgraded to fix some job running issues |
12-02-2019 | |
Summer Holiday Support Galaxy Australia will be minimally administered during the university shutdown period from 24th December 2019 to the 2nd January 2019. During this time, only essential maintenance will be performed. No disk quota modifications, tool installations or reference data installation or upgrades will be performed. |
20-12-2018 | |
New Tools Added: Gemini Tools We have added the Gemini Tools to Galaxy Australia. These tools are for doing integrative exploration of genetic variation and genome annotations. The documentation for these tools can be found here. You can find these tools under the Gemini Tools section of the Galaxy Australia tool menu. |
05-12-2018 | |
Nominate a training for the 2019 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2019) The 2019 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2019) will be held in be held in Freiburg, Germany, 1-6 July. The training topics that are offered are determined by the community so BY YOU! |
03-12-2018 | |
Automatic workflow testing We have started to test a few of our workflows automatically against UseGalaxy.eu. This will run all workflows monthly to ensure that the keep working and that our infrastructure works and scales well. |
21-11-2018 | |
Tutorial of the Month: "Reference-based RNA-Seq data analysis", selected by Saskia Hiltemann The Galaxy community is developing and maintaining a collection of tutorials that are designed to be interactive and are built around Galaxy: https://training.galaxyproject.org. To help highlight our tutorials and the training effort of the community, a member of the community will select every month one tutorial and explains in the Galactic Blog why they select this tutorial. This month, the Galaxy contributor of the Month!, Saskia Hilteman, selects and presents a tutorial: "Reference-based RNA-Seq data analysis", from the topic "Transcriptomics" |
15-11-2018 | |
Initial release of The good folks over at Galaxy Europe have developed a cool bit of code to help out Galaxy systems administrators. It's called |
08-10-2018 | |
GCCBOSC From 24th of June to 2nd of July the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) and Bioinformatics Open Source Conference 2018 (BOSC) were meeting together in Portland, Oregon, United States. There was be two days of training, a two day meeting, and four days of intense collaboration. The meeting featured joint & parallel sessions, shared keynotes, poster & demo sessions, birds-of-a-feather, and social events. Simon and Derek were there and represented the Galaxy Australia team! |
18-07-2018 | |
Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences 3 years ago the Galaxy community evaluated mechanism to make software installation more robust and we joined the Bioconda community, to fix the software deployment problem once and for all. Today, we are happy to annouce that the Bioconda manuscript is now published in the latest Nature Methods issue (public view). usegalaxy.org.au and many other Galaxy instance are already powered by Bioconda and you might use it daily without knowing :) |
04-07-2018 |