Hello all,
*The executive summary:*
1. *We have moved our registration deadline to June 22*. Register by the
end of Wednesday and save 25% or $200 on your registration.
2. *Hotel rooms can now be booked through June 30*. The hotel is where
the conference is, it's a good price, it's in a cool neighborhood, and
it's right next to the UMN campus.
And if you are wondering what GCC2022 is about...
*GCC2022* <https://galaxyproject.org/gcc2022/> brings together hundreds of
researchers, trainers, tool developers, software engineers, and
computational infrastructure providers, all addressing common challenges
in data intensive science using the Galaxy data integration and analysis
platform <https://galaxyproject.org/>.
*See below for links and more news.*
I/We hope to see you in Minneapolis in one month!
Dave C, on behalf of the GCC2022 Organizing Committee
*2022 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022)*
July 17-23, 2022
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
*#UseGalaxy2022 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/UseGalaxy2022>*
*Three years of waiting and we're down to one month before the #usegalaxy
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/usegalaxy?src=hashtag_click> community meets
in person at GCC2022! View a summary here
<https://galaxyproject.org/blog/2022-06-guide-to-gcc2022/> of what to
expect when you join us in Minneapolis.*
*Not Registered Yet? There's Still Time!*
*Registration has been EXTENDED to Wednesday, June 22 *- *register here for
GCC2022 <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/register>! *
Meeting Registration Fees
*Full (< June 22) *
*Late (> June 23) *
Student/postdoc $400 $500
Academic / Non-Profit / Government $550 $750
Industry $900 $1,150
*Michael Schatz at GCC2022*
What do TIME100
<https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177818/evan-e…>
and
GCC2022 have in common? Michael Schatz, that's what! Come talk to him about
the future, learn more about his Birds of a Feather session here
<https://gcc2022.sched.com/event/13V9n>.
*We have a tremendous lineup of speakers for our accepted and invited talks
and training sessions! *Get to know who they are by *viewing the entire
GCC2022 schedule <https://gcc2022.sched.com/>. *
*Hotel Reservation Deadline EXTENDED*
Be sure to make your hotel reservations
<https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=16458128…>
at our GCC2022 venue the Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown by Thursday, June
30 to get our conference rate of $139/night!
Register for GCC2022 by June 22
<https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/register>
Make Hotel Reservations by June 30
<https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=16458128…>
PS: No, you can never completely leave the Galaxy. You knew this right?
PPS: We moved these dates back because a particularly bad interaction
between the (spiffy!) MailChimp service we have been using for GCC2022, and
Galaxy's (only semi-functional!) MailMan3 server caused no email to be
delivered to several mailing lists since the end of April. So, now is your
chance. Please do register by Wednesday.
--
My last day with Galaxy was December 17, 2021 . After that I will be the
Anaconda <https://www.anaconda.com/> open source community manager. If you
need to reach Galaxy Outreach after December 17, please send your email to
outreach(a)galaxyproject.org.
*Registration for MiniGateways 2022 is FREE but required. **Register
now!*
<http://ec2-54-202-43-228.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=20511062&l=4…>
*MiniGateways 2022*
/April 5-7, 2022/
Connections for the Future
Registration
<http://ec2-54-202-43-228.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=20511062&l=4…>for
MiniGateways 2022 is NOW OPEN! Save your spot and sign up for tutorials!
Last December we announced MiniGateways 2022 with a “Save the Date”
message. The *schedule and presenters*
<http://ec2-54-202-43-228.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=20511062&l=3…>are
now finalized.
The virtual conference is open for *registration:
**https://sciencegateways.org/minigateways2022-registration*
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sciencegateways.org_mi…>
Register before April 1 to receive a surprise in the mail!
*MiniGateways 2022*
<http://ec2-54-202-43-228.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=20511062&l=3…>**will
offer a variety of presentations, tutorials, options for interaction,
and opportunities to build connections for the future with the community
around science gateways.
/What you’ll get from our program:/
* Join us on Tuesday and Wednesday for exciting Tutorial sessions
where you can *gain in-depth expertise on specific topics*
* Join us on Wednesday and Thursday for exciting *short talks on
topics contributed by the community *
* Join our interactive Open Forum on Thursday *for discussing emerging
topics for science gateways*
* Opportunities to *grow your network* by meeting people in the
community who are users, developers, or providers of gateways
BOSC 2022 dates: July 13-14, as part of ISMB 2022
Location: Madison, WI, USA, and virtual
Website: <https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2019>
https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc/
BOSC announcements mailing list:
<http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bosc-announce>
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bosc-announce
Slack channel:
https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5…
Twitter: @OBF_BOSC <https://twitter.com/OBF_BOSC>, #BOSC2022
Key Dates
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April 21, 2022: Deadline for submitting talk/poster abstracts
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/submit/>
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May 12: Talk/poster acceptance notifications
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May 19: Late poster (and Late-Breaking Lightning Talk) submission
deadline
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May 26: Late poster / LBLT acceptance notifications
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July 13-14: BOSC 2022 <https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/>
-
July 15-16: CollaborationFest (CoFest)
About BOSC
The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference promotes and facilitates the open
source development of bioinformatics tools and open science. Since 2000,
BOSC has provided a forum for developers and users to interact and share
research results and ideas in open source bioinformatics and open science.
BOSC’s broad spectrum of topics includes practical techniques for solving
bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and
ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data,
results and software; and ways to grow open source communities while
promoting diversity within them.
As usual, BOSC will include keynote talks, longer and shorter (lightning)
talks from submitted abstracts, posters, Birds of a Feather, and more!
New this year: Joint session with Bio-Ontologies
<https://www.open-bio.org/2022/03/03/bosc-and-bio-ontologies-joint-session/>
!
We are excited to announce that BOSC and Bio-Ontologies
<https://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/ismb-annual-meeting> will join forces
for part of a day at ISMB 2022. The joint session will feature keynote
speaker Melissa Haendel as well as talks chosen from abstracts submitted to
BOSC or Bio-Ontologies.
Keynote Speakers <https://open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/bosc-2022-keynotes>
Melissa Haendel is the Chief Research Informatics Officer at University of
Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Director of the Center for Data to
Health (CD2H). With expertise in molecular genetics and developmental
biology as well as translational informatics, Dr. Haendel focuses on open
science and data integration to improve rare-disease diagnosis and
mechanism discovery. She is a leader in ontologies and standards for data
sharing.
Lior Pachter is the Bren professor of computational biology at Caltech. He
is a Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology
<https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows> and has been awarded a National Science
Foundation CAREER award, a Sloan Research Fellowship His research interests
span the mathematical and biological sciences, including algorithms,
combinatorics, comparative genomics, algebraic statistics, molecular
biology and evolution. Dr. Pachter is known as a vociferous advocate of
open and accountable science.
A third keynote speaker will be announced soon!
Abstract submission
We encourage you to submit abstracts
<https://www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-2022/submit/> (due April 21 – sorry,
no extensions) on any topic relevant to open source bioinformatics or open
science. After review, some abstracts will be selected for lightning talks,
longer talks, or posters. Abstracts that are not chosen for talks will
automatically be considered for posters.
Abstract submission will be via ISMB’s EasyChair. Note that ISMB/ECCB
requires a short (200-word) text-only abstract for all submissions (talk or
poster), plus a “long abstract” (PDF, 2 pages max) if you want to be
considered for a talk. A second, later round of submissions will end May
19. Abstracts submitted in the late round will be considered only for
posters and a limited number of “late-breaking lightning talk” slots; they
are not eligible for longer talks.
Registration fee assistance
We realize that the cost of ISMB may be prohibitive for some. If you are
submitting an abstract to BOSC and would have difficulty covering the cost
of registration, you can request a registration fee waiver right on the
abstract submission form (which will not be seen by reviewers). Those who
are not submitting abstracts can apply for an OBF Event Fellowship
<https://www.open-bio.org/event-awards/> (deadline April 1, 2022).
BOSC topics include (but are not limited to):
-
Ontologies: Open Source Tools and Approaches (new this year – joint
session with Bio-Ontologies COSI <http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/>)
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Open Science and Reproducible Research
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Open Biomedical Data
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Citizen/Participatory Science
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Standards and Interoperability
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Data Science
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Workflows
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Open Approaches to Translational Bioinformatics
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Open Science for Global Health
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Developer Tools and Libraries
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Inclusion, Outreach and Training
-
Bioinformatics Open Source Project Reports (about new or existing
projects)
-
Open and interoperable ontologies (joint session with Bio-Ontologies
<https://www.open-bio.org/2022/03/03/bosc-and-bio-ontologies-joint-session/>
)
We look forward to reading your abstract and seeing you (in person or
virtually) at BOSC 2022!
Sincerely,
BOSC 2022 Organizing Committee: Nomi Harris, Karsten Hokamp, Hervé Ménager,
Monica Munoz-Torres, Deepak Unni, Nicole Vasilevsky, Jason Williams
Dear Community,
The Galaxy Committers team is pleased to announce the release of Galaxy
22.01.
- Developer and admin release announcement
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/22.01_announce.html>.
- User release announcement
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/22.01_announce_user.html>
.
A few release highlights are:
New Colour Selector
Do you use tools which require colour inputs, like Circos? Previously, we
had a very restricted colour input which gave you a very limited palette.
Now, you have complete freedom of choice with the modern colour selector.
Improved File Export
If you've been exporting files from Galaxy lately, you've probably seen the
amazing new remote file source export, which allows you to export files to
FTP, Dropbox, and other locations.
Improved File Uploads
Previously, Galaxy servers used a variety of methods to let you upload
large files easily, including some servers which required FTP for large
files. We have replaced this with a new upload method, which will be
enabled on all usegalaxy servers soon. This will make file uploads
significantly smoother, and will be more tolerant of network failures and
interruptions! You do not need to make any changes.
Beta History: Collection Improvements
If you've been trying out the beta history (which will be the default
history in the next release!), it has been updated to indicate whether
collections are homogeneous or heterogeneous. This will help you see more
easily if you've accidentally included an incorrect dataset.
Galaxy starts as a FastAPI application by default
Starting Galaxy via run.sh will use the new gravity process manager
<https://github.com/galaxyproject/gravity>. The new configuration uses
Gunicorn <https://gunicorn.org/> and FastAPI <https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/> to
drive Galaxy's web process, and starts job handler and Celery
<https://docs.celeryproject.org/> processes automatically. For more details
and instructions, please consult the Migrating to Gunicorn documentation
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/admin/migrating_to_gunicorn>.
User Preferences can be encrypted in Galaxy Vault
Galaxy can now be configured to store secrets in an external vault, which
is useful for secure handling and centralization of secrets management. In
particular, information fields in the "Manage information" section of the
user profile, such as dropbox keys, can be configured to be encrypted at
rest in a vault (Hashicorp, Custos or database) instead of being stored as
plain text in the user preferences table. For detailed information on
configuration, refer to the vault section
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/release_22.01/admin/special_topics/vault.…>
of
the admin documentation.
Release Notes
Please see the full release notes
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/releases/22.01_announce.html> for
a lot more details and instructions for upgrading your Galaxy installation.
Thanks for using Galaxy!
2022 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022)
July 17-23, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/
Deadlines:
April 12: Oral presentation and lightning talk abstracts due
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1z29z8Nd8Gho0trS7DySvWAii6hisbZr67cuI--lcZ_…>
May 12: Early registration
<https://learning.umn.edu/portal/events/reg/participantTypeSelection.do?meth…>
ends
June 3: Demo and poster abstracts due
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1z29z8Nd8Gho0trS7DySvWAii6hisbZr67cuI--lcZ_…>
The 2022 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022)
<https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/> will be held July 17-23 in
Minneapolis,
Minnesota. GCC brings together hundreds of faculty, clinicians,
researchers, and students, all working in and supporting data intensive
science that is accessible, shareable, and reproducible.
GCC2022 features oral presentations, lightning talks, posters, demos,
birds-of-a-feather gatherings (BoFs), training, a CollaborationFest, and
plenty of opportunities for networking.
Presentations will cover the full spectrum of Galaxy applications,
enhancements, and deployments. If you are working in data intensive science
then GCC2022 is an ideal conference for sharing your work, learning from
others, and finding new collaborators.
Present your work!
Abstract submission
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1z29z8Nd8Gho0trS7DySvWAii6hisbZr67cuI--lcZ_…>
for talks, lightning talks, demos, and posters is now open. If you work in
data-intensive science then please consider presenting your work at
GCC2022. This is a chance to present to 200+ researchers, all addressing
challenges in data intensive science. Abstract submissions for oral
presentations are due on April 12. Submit an abstract (or two) now!
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1z29z8Nd8Gho0trS7DySvWAii6hisbZr67cuI--lcZ_…>
Topics of Interest
If you’re currently working on any of these topics, this conference is for
you:
-
Omics data analysis: genomic sequencing, microbiome, proteomics,
imaging, you name it!
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Tools and visualizations for working with omics data
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Compute infrastructure for enabling data intensive science
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Galaxy applications in any domain or topic: ML, climate, NPL, …
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Outreach and training related to data analysis
Registration
Registration information is available on the conference website
<https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/register#in-person>. Early
registration ends May 12. So, register
<https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/register> early!
About Galaxy
Galaxy <https://galaxyproject.org/> is a platform for data integration and
analysis in the life sciences. It enables researchers to build, run, share,
and repeat their own complex computational analyses using only a web
browser and without having to first learn system administration and command
line interfaces.
The Galaxy Project is driven by a vibrant community who publish workflows
and analyses, wrap new tools, maintain and enhance the source code, provide
support, and write documentation and training materials. Galaxy is
open-source and freely available, and is deployed in hundreds of
organizations, running on everything from laptops to supercomputers to
public and private clouds. Over 150 of these platforms are publicly
available and can be used with little or no setup. Thousands of tools have
been ported to Galaxy and are deployable from the Galaxy Tool Shed. Galaxy
was developed to support life science research, but the platform is domain
agnostic and is now used in domains as diverse as natural language
processing, computational solid geometry, and social science.
Hope to see you in Minneapolis!
*Organizers of the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022)*
https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/
Dear all,
Happy new year!
For 10 years, we have been sharing news through the monthly Galactic
News. This is a milestone and we are so proud of the community that we
built together. A lot can change over 10 years and we want to know which
parts of the Galaxy newsletter are the most useful and which parts may
need to be modified to suit your needs.
Please take *2 minutes to fill out **this survey
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdws7R3y_4qB4LNNbqx4qYRNlkmuwmnqQ5…>*
so that we can create a newsletter that will better serve our growing
community.
Thank you for reading and here's to the next 10 years,
Assunta and Bea