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November 2021 Galaxy Newsletter
by Dave Clements 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Happy November from Galaxy! The November newsletter is thin, *but powerful*: - Galaxy India Launches this Month <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-11-galaxy-update/#community-news> - 7 new openings (13 total) <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-11-galaxy-update/#community-news> - 9 upcoming Events <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-11-galaxy-update/#event-news> - Blog posts on SARS-CoV-2 training in Africa; Sunsetting CloudLaundh; and TIaaS <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-11-galaxy-update/#galactic-blog-posts> - UseGalaxy.* Updates <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-11-galaxy-update/#galaxy-platforms-news> - Other News too: BY-COVID Launches <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-11-galaxy-update/#other-news> Have something for the next newsletter? Please let us know and we will spread the word. Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Dave Clements, Editors -- https://galaxyproject.org/

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October Galaxy News
by Dave Clements 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Hello all, The October Newsletter is out <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-10-galaxy-update/>. and it covers Galaxy involvement in Hacktoberfest, and Outreachy, plus a nice batch of trainings, talks and a Galaxy Papercuts CoFest day too. It also brings news of new job openings on two continents, two new platforms, blog posts (where My Little Pony makes an appearance, really), GTN updates (few in number but big in their coolness), publications, and releases. In other words, another active month in the Galaxy. Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Dave Clements, Editors -- https://galaxyproject.org/

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September 2021 News: Papercuts resumes; Misconceptions; Hub updated; microGalaxy Community, ...
by Dave Clements 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

Hi all, The September newsletter <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-09-galaxy-update/> brings lots of news, including - 12 recent use cases for UseGalaxy.eu, covering a broad spectrum of research. - Want to help address misconceptions about Galaxy? - The Galaxy Community Hub is now using Gridsome. - ELIXIR community updates - JXTX Foundation 2021 Awards - 7 open positions in Belgium, Italy, and the US - The Galaxy YouTube channel is growing up - Upcoming events - Galaxy Platforms News - Recent Blog Posts - Doc, Hub, and Training Updates - Recent Publications - and other news too. Sit back, get comfortable, and explore the Galaxy... Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Dave Clements, Editors -- https://galaxyproject.org/

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Galaxy Newsletter: August 2021
by Beatriz Serrano-Solano 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hello all, The August newsletter brings news of GCC2021 (just finished) and GCC2022 (in Minneapolis); the launch of the Galaxy India community, and open positions in 7 countries <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-08-galaxy-update/#community-news>; event news <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-08-galaxy-update/#event-news>; Galaxy platform news <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-08-galaxy-update/#galaxy-platforms-news>; Galactic blog posts <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-08-galaxy-update/#galactic-blog-activity>; training and doc updates <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-08-galaxy-update/#doc-hub-and-training-…>; recent open-access Galaxy-related publications <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-08-galaxy-update/#publications>; and other news too <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-08-galaxy-update/#other-news>.** Dave Clements and Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Editors PS: Subscribe to the Galaxy Announce mailing list <https://lists.galaxyproject.org/?count=100&all-lists=> and receive an email whenever this newsletter is published. -- Dr Beatriz Serrano-Solano (she/her) <https://www.hrc.org/resources/talking-about-pronouns-in-the-workplace> Bioinformatics Group Dept. Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee, 106 79110 Freiburg Germany

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Galaxy Newsletter: July 2021
by Dave Clements 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Hello all, The big news for July is that the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference <https://gcc2021.sched.com/> is under way. With GCC going on, this is one of our thinner newsletters <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/>, but there are still *open positions <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#community-news>*, *event news <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#event-news>*, *Galaxy platform news <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#galaxy-platforms-news>*, *Galactic blog posts <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#galactic-blog-activity>*, *training and doc updates <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#doc-hub-and-training-…>*, recent *open-access Galaxy-related publications <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#publications>*, *new releases <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#releases>, and other news too <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-07-galaxy-update/#other-news>.* We hope to see you at GCC events this week and next. Dave Clements and Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Editors PS: It is too late to register for the 3 day conference next week. It is also officially too late to sign up for the CoFest on 9-10 July, but if you follow this link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdJHTzw7LWVxFaqGI30COZlcxGPksjGL_…>, you just mind find yourself invited anyway. -- https://gaaxyproject.org/ <https://galaxyproject.org/>

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Release of Galaxy 21.05
by Marius van den Beek 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Dear Community, The Galaxy Committers team is pleased to announce the release of Galaxy 21.05. The release announcement for developers and admins can be found at https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/21.05_announce.html and user facing release notes are at https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/21.05_announce_user.html. A few release highlights are: ¡Galaxy, ahora en español! ------------------------------------ Thanks to Wendi Bacon, the Spanish language translation of Galaxy has been finalised and merged, so if you prefer to use Galaxy in Spanish, now you can! This update will be part of an ongoing project from Spanish speakers within the Galaxy community to keep the Galaxy interface localisation up to date, and to produce some Spanish language training materials in the GTN. Bugfixes and Stability ----------------------------- This release of Galaxy features fewer user-facing changes, as a huge amount of developer time went into making this a maintenance release with better testing, better stability, and more bugfixes. But watch out, this is all in preparation for the next release of Galaxy, 21.09, which will have some of the biggest changes in years! New development stack -------------------------------- Galaxy release 21.09 will ship with a new web framework (fastAPI <https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/>), Celery <https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/stable/index.html> task queue and process management using Circus <https://circus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>. You can preview this new stack now by running *APP_WEBSERVER=dev ./run.sh*. Celery for background tasks -------------------------------------- Galaxy can now run certain tasks in the background. The Celery workers are currently not required, but if activated can perform certain long-running tasks, such as creating history export archives. Celery tasks will bridge the gap between rapid requests that can be handled during a web request and jobs that require extensive and relatively slow setup. More robust selection of job handlers ------------------------------------------------- Job throughput can be increased by starting Galaxy with multiple external job handler processes. Jobs were traditionally assigned to a job handler process by the web handler or workflow handler process that created the job. Since Release 19.01 Galaxy has supported additional mechanisms that use database serialization techniques to let job handlers assign processes to themselves. This mechanism is more robust and doesn't require that all job handler processes be alive and known by the web handler process. Galaxy now determines the best method for assigning jobs based on the database in use, if the assignment method is not set explicitly. Older job assignment methods will be removed in Galaxy release 21.09. For more details see the Job Handler Assignment Methods section <https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/release_21.05/admin/scaling.html#job-hand…> of the Galaxy documentation. Check out the full release notes <https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/master/releases/21.05_announce.html> for a lot more details, there are many more enhancements, new visualizations and bugfixes as well as instructions for upgrading your Galaxy installation. Thanks for using Galaxy!

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GCC2021 Deadlines Approaching
by Dave Clements 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hello all, The early registration deadline for the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference has been moved back to June 8. This gives you more time to take advantage of the 50% discount off full registration prices, so make sure you sign up now so you don't miss out! Register here <https://www.vibconferences.be/events/gcc2021-virtual-edition#attendees>. The draft program <https://gcc2021.sched.com/> and the speakers are now also available online. Please bear in mind that the times are set for the Europe/Middle East/Africa - Asia/Pacific window, and that the same schedule will run 9 hours later for the Americas. The availability of the speakers for the Q&A session will depend on the time zone in which they are located. Posters and demo sessions can still be submitted <https://www.vibconferences.be/events/gcc2021-virtual-edition#abstracts> until the 14th of June. Feel free to distribute this message further in your network. We hope to meet you online! Dave Clements on behalf of the GCC2021 Organizing Committee -- https://galaxyproject.org/

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June 2021 Galaxy Newsletter: All about GCC2021!
by Beatriz Serrano-Solano 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hello all, Welcome to the June 2021 edition of Galaxy News. GCC2021 is upon us, *with deadlines and events starting this month <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#featured-news>*. It's not too late to register (register by June 8 and get 50% off) and to submit Poster/Demo abstracts. Training week starts on June 28. We also started getting confirmations from speakers and are *publishing confirmed presenters <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#featured-news>* as we get them. We are also pleased to *announce our first three sponsors for GCC2021: F1000Research, GigaScience Press and KWS-SAAT <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#gcc2021-sponsorships>* . In addition to GCC news, we also released the *James Taylor birthday video <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#community-news>*, and have several *new open positions <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#community-news>*, lots of *event news <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#event-news>*, *Galaxy platform news <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#galaxy-platforms-news>*, *Galactic blog posts <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#galactic-blog-activity>*, *training and doc updates <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#doc-hub-and-training-…>*, recent *open-access Galaxy-related publications <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#publications>*, and *new releases <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-06-galaxy-update/#releases>.* As always, thanks for using Galaxy, Dave Clements and Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Editors PS: Subscribe to the Galaxy Announce mailing list <https://lists.galaxyproject.org/?count=100&all-lists=> to receive an email whenever this newsletter is published. -- Dr Beatriz Serrano-Solano (she/her) <https://www.hrc.org/resources/talking-about-pronouns-in-the-workplace> Bioinformatics Group Dept. Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee, 106 70110 Freiburg Germany

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May 2021 Galaxy Newsletter: GCC2021 Deadlines Extended
by Dave Clements 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hello all, *The May 2021 edition of Galaxy News <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/> is out! * The big news is that *several deadlines for the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#community-news> have been extended, and the deadline for submitting James Taylor videos <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#featured-news> has been extended to this Friday.* And there are other upcoming deadlines too: - *ISMB/ECCB and BOSC 2021 abstracts <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#event-news> are due this Thursday.* - *Apply for the Galaxy Australia Variant Calling Workshops <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#event-news> by May 12.* We also have - *open positions <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#community-news>* - *webinars, CoFests, workshops, community meetups, and other events <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#event-news>*, - news about *public Galaxy platforms <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#galaxy-platforms-news>* , - recent *blog posts <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#galactic-blog-activity>* , - *training and doc updates <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#doc-hub-and-training-…>* , - recent *open-access Galaxy-related publications <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#publications>*, and - *new releases <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-05-galaxy-update/#releases>.* As always, thanks for using Galaxy, Dave Clements and Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Editors -- https://galaxyproject.org/

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April 2021 Galaxy newsletter
by Beatriz Serrano-Solano 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hello all, This newsletter coincides with the anniversary of James Taylor's death <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#featured-news> on April 2, 2020. James was a Galaxy Project founder and PI, and losing him at the same time as the global COVID-19 shutdown made for a tough month, and then a tough year for the Galaxy Community. To mark this, there are two items about James below. First, *a call to share your favorite story about James* via a 30 second video (by April 30). Second, there is a link to *a note to James* written by project leadership (mainly Anton). The other big news is that registration, abstract submission, and fellowship applications for the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference are now open <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#community-news>. Abstracts and fellowship applications are due by May 7. And as always there are sections on - *upcoming events <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#event-news>*, - news about *public Galaxy platforms <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#galaxy-platforms-news>* , - recent *blog posts <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#galactic-blog-activity>* , - *training and doc updates <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#doc-hub-and-training-…>* , - recent *open-access Galaxy-related publications <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#publications>*, and - *new releases <https://galaxyproject.org/news/2021-04-galaxy-update/#releases>.* It's been a memorable twelve months. It would have been easy to curl up and hide, but we kept going, addressed gaps, and helped address the global pandemic as well. Thanks for supporting each other, Dave Clements and Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Editors

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