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April 2014 Galaxy Update Newsletter: GCC2014 Talk Abstracts due this Friday
by Dave Clements 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

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GCC2014 Early Registration and Abstract Submission are now OPEN!
by Dave Clements 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hello all, *We are pleased to announce that Early Registration <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Register> and Talk and Poster Abstract Submission <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Abstracts> are now open for the 2014 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2014) <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014>.* GCC2014 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014> will be held at the Homewood Campus<http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/campuses/homewo…>of Johns Hopkins University <http://jhu.edu>, in Baltimore, Maryland<http://visitors.baltimorecity.gov/>, United States, from June 30 through July 2, 2014. GCC2014<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014>starts with a Training Day <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> featuring four *five* parallel tracks, each with three, two and half hour long workshops. There are 13 different topics spanning the full Galactic spectrum of topics. Take a look!<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> *Early registration <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Register>* is now open. Register early and *avoid paying 70% more for regular registration costs.* Early registration is very affordable, with combined registration (Training Day <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> + main meeting) starting at $140 for post-docs and students. Registration is capped this year at 250 participants, *and we expect to hit that limit*. Registering early assures you a place at the conference and also a spot in the Training Day workshops you want to attend. You can also book affordable conference housing at the same time you register. See the conference Logistics page<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Logistics>for details on this and other housing options. *Abstract submission <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Abstracts>* for both oral presentations and posters is also open. Abstract submission for oral presentations closes April 4, while poster submission closes April 25. Poster authors will be notified of acceptance status within two weeks of submission, while presentation authors will be notified no later than May2. *Please consider presenting your work. If you are dealing with big biological data, then this meeting wants to hear about your work.* The *GigaScience <http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/>* "Galaxy: Data Intensive and Reproducible Research" series announced for the last conference has published its first papers<http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/series/Galaxy>, *and is continuing to take submissions for this year's meeting and beyond*. BGI is also continuing to cover the article processing charges until the end of the year, and for more information see their latest update<http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2014/02/06/rewarding-reproducibilit…>. Thanks, and hope to see you in Baltimore! The GCC2014 Organizing Committee<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Organizers> -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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Usegalaxy.org network upgrade this Saturday
by Dave Clements 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hello all, Access to all TACC resources and services, including UseGalaxy.org<https://usegalaxy.org/>, will be unavailable between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (US Central Time) on Saturday, March 22. TACC staff will be performing an upgrade to the networking infrastructure. During this outage, users are encouraged to use the *50+ other public Galaxy servers <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/PublicGalaxyServers>* that won't be affected by this upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Thanks, Dave C -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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March 2014 Galaxy Update Newsletter
by Dave Clements 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

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Feb 10, 2014 Galaxy Distribution & News Brief
by Jennifer Jackson 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Feb 10, 2014 Galaxy Distribution & News Brief <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/News/2014_02_10_Galaxy_Distribution> // *CompleteNews Brief <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/DevNewsBriefs/2014_02_10>* *Highlights:* * Visualization upgrades, including Trackster CSS styling * Multiple Tools migrated to the Tool Shed for a leaner distribution * Redesign of UI rendering: new icons, new font, history pane updates * API functionality upgrades featuring a new master admin API key and * Tool Shed updates a focus on repository metadata, displays, installs, and tests * Over 35 new community contributions added http://getgalaxy.org <http://getgalaxy.org/> http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist http://galaxy-dist.readthedocs.org <http://galaxy-dist.readthedocs.org/> new: $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist#stable upgrade: $ hg pull $ hg update release_2014.02.10 /Thanks for using Galaxy!/ The Galaxy Team <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Galaxy%20Team>

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February 2014 Galaxy Update Newsletter
by Dave Clements 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

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Galaxy Australasia Workshop (GAW 2014), 24-25 March, Melbourne
by Dave Clements 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hello all, *We are pleased to announce the 1st Galaxy Australasia Workshop 2014 (GAW 2014) <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GAW2014> will be held in Melbourne, Australia on 24 and 25th March 2014.* The Galaxy Australasia Workshop<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GAW2014> is a great opportunity for you to participate in two full days of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, keynotes and lightning talks, all about ways of using Galaxy for high-throughput biology, imaging and other scientific applications. The workshop will also include Training Sessions taught by Galaxy developers and master users. GAW 2014 will run 24 and 25th March, immediately preceding Computational and Simulation Sciences and eResearch <http://wp.csiro.au/css/> in Melbourne. GAW 2014 will also include poster session, keynote speakers. *You should attend to:* - Present your work! - Learn best practices for deploying Galaxy, defining and installing resources, and managing and moving large datasets. - Network with others in the Galaxy community who are facing similar challenges and using Galaxy and other tools to address them. - Learn what the Galaxy Project's plans are, and contribute to Galaxy's future direction. - Learn - how to visualize your data in Galaxy and use visualization to guide your analysis (visual analytics) - how to share, publish, and reuse your analyses with Galaxy - how to perform and enable your users to perform common, yet complex, analyses using Galaxy - when and how to use Galaxy on the Cloud *Topics will potentially include:* - Image analysis and processing using Galaxy. - RNAseq/ChIPseq/Variant Calling/RNA Quality Control. - Galaxy on the Research Cloud. - CSIRO galaxy service - partnership between science and IT. - Identifying proteins from mass spec data with Galaxy. *Call For Abstracts* Participants who wish to give presentations or present posters (potentially with technical demonstrations) that showcase use of Galaxy should submit a brief one-page abstract and brief one-paragraph bio to the GAW2014 Organisers <gaw2014-org(a)groups.galaxyproject.org> *by February 15th, 2014.* Submitters will be notified by February 28th. Speakers, panelists, and poster presenters will be selected by the program committee based on relevance to symposium objectives and workshop balance. Submissions should clearly state whether they are for: poster or oral presentation. Looking forward to seeing you all in Melbourne! GAW 2014 Organising Committee<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GAW2014#Organising_Committee> -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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GCC2014 Training Day Topic Voting open January 6-17
by Dave Clements 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hello all, What topics should be offered at the GCC2014 Training Day<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> ? Topics <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> for the GCC2014 Training Day <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> are selected by you, the Galaxy Community. For GCC2014 there are 19 nominated topics<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay#Nominated_Topics> to pick from. Your votes will determine the topics that are offered, which topics should be offered more than once, and which ones should not be scheduled at the same time. Your vote matters. *Topic voting closes January 17.* The Training Day schedule, including instructors, will be published before early registration opens on February 10. Vote now! <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> *About the GCC2014 Training Day <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay>:* The 2014 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2014)<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014> will start on June 30 with a Training Day<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> featuring 4 parallel tracks, each with three workshops, each of which are two and a half hours long, for a total of twelve sessions. There will be at least one complete track (3 consecutive workshops) about using Galaxy for biological research, and at least one full track on deploying and managing Galaxy instances. As always, please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks, The GCC2014 Organizing Committee<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Organizers> -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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January 2014 Galaxy Update Newsletter
by Dave Clements 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

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GCC2014 Training Day: Topic Nomination is now open
by Dave Clements 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

Hello all, Training Day topics are nominated by you <http://bit.ly/gcc2014tdnom>, the Galaxy Community. Please take a minute to nominate a topic. Any topic of interest to the Galaxy Community can be nominated and you are encouraged to nominate more than one topic. If you are looking for ideas, see - what was offered at GCC2013<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/TrainingDay> , - what topics were nominated in 2013 <http://bit.ly/1i2j1gN>, and - the Events <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events> and the Events Archive<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/Archive> pages. Nominated topics will be published on the Training Day<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/TrainingDay> page as they come in. *Nominations close December 20*. Topics will be compiled into a uniform list by the GCC2014 Organizing Committee, and topics will be posted and voted on by the Galaxy Community, January 6-17. Nominate a topic now! <http://bit.ly/gcc2014tdnom> Topics will then be selected and scheduled based on topic interest, and the organizers' ability to confirm instructors for each session. Some very popular sessions may be scheduled more than once. The final schedule will be posted before registration opens. See you in Baltimore! GCC2014 Organizing Committee<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2014/Organizers> --- *About GCC2014:* The 2014 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2014)<http://galaxyproject.org/gcc2014>will be held at the Homewood Campus<http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/campuses/homewo…> of Johns Hopkins University <http://jhu.edu/>, inBaltimore, Maryland<http://visitors.baltimorecity.gov/>, United States, from June 30 through July 2, 2014. Galaxy Community Conferences are an opportunity to participate in presentations, discussions, poster sessions, keynotes, lightning talks and bird-of-a-feather gatherings, all about high-throughput biology and the tools that support it. -- http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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