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The October 2021 Newsletter is here.

The 2021 Galaxy Community Conference is almost upon us. GCC2021 will be held 28 June through July 10.

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.

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.

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.

Please join us at Galaxy’s annual community gathering. It will be online, accessible, and affordable to all.

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.

Galaxy is again participating in Google Summer of Code as part of the Open Genome Informatics Consortium. And we need your help, of course.

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.

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.

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.

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.

JTech: Junior Training and Educational Connections Hotspot

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.

The following tools have been installed/updated on Galaxy Australia

The following tools have been installed/updated on Galaxy Australia

The following tools have been installed/updated on Galaxy Australia

Galaxy Australia has been upgraded to the latest Galaxy release. Version 20.01.
This morning after a brief planned outage, Galaxy Australia was upgraded to the latest version of Galaxy. You will notice some changes straight away - The tool menu is a bit easier to read now. Everything else is the same however!

Galaxy 20.01 has now been released!
This release includes:

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.

We need your input on preparing and giving Galaxy Training

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.

Galaxy Australia has been upgraded to the latest Galaxy release. Version 19.09.
This morning after a brief planned outage, Galaxy Australia was upgraded to the latest version of Galaxy. You will notice some changes straight away - The tool menu is a bit easier to read now. Everything else is the same however!

Calling all Australian life science researchers who move data!
The Australian BioCommons is a new NCRIS-funded digital capability that will enhance national bioinformatics infrastructure for environmental, agricultural and biomedical researchers. We want to know about your research data movement challenges.

Galaxy Australia moves to the new QRIS cloud stage 5 hardware
This morning after a planned outage, the Galaxy Australia main queue was moved from it’s original home on QRIS cloud to their shiny new hardware! The stage 5 hardware is faster, better connected and much more flexible. This will help Galaxy Australia be more responsive to it’s users as we are now able to launch bigger jobs and have them run faster.

7 June 2019

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.

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.

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.

Galaxy 19.01 has now been released!
This release includes the revised UI style, addition of colorful tags, extensive workflow enhancements, and enhanced support for Singularity.

This week we have added a number of new tools to Galaxy Australia

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.

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.

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!

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.

The good folks over at Galaxy Europe have developed a cool bit of code to help out Galaxy systems administrators. It’s called gxadmin, it’s available on GitHub and includes many small SQL queries that administrators run every day.

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!