Dear All,
The Open Genome Informatics team serves as an “umbrella" organization to support the efforts of many open-access open-source bioinformatics projects for <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/> Google Summer of Code (GSoC<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/>). Among this list of projects are Reactome and GMOD and its software projects -- JBrowse; Galaxy; WormBase; and others.
Call for 2021 Project Ideas and Mentors: We are seeking project ideas to post and attract talented students to this year’s Summer of Code competition. If you have a project idea for which you would like to mentor a student, please contact Robin Haw, Marc Gillespie, and Scott Cain (emails above).
You can also submit your ideas here<http://gmod.org/wiki/GSOC_Project_Ideas_2021>.
For more information please refer to the Open Genome Informatics page on the GMOD.org website<http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC><http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC#Google_Summer_of_Code_2020>.
The mentoring organization application deadline with GSoC is February 19th at 2 pm EST. So, if you are interested in taking part with the team please let us know as soon as possible.
Please forward this to others who might be interested in taking part.
If you have any questions please let us know.
Thanks,
Robin, Marc, and Scott.
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!
-
Tools and visualizations for working with omics data
-
Compute infrastructure for enabling data intensive science
-
Galaxy applications in any domain or topic: ML, climate, NPL, …
-
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!
GCC2022 Organizers <https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2022/organizers/>
Hi all,
we have been accepted to publish an updated version of the Galaxy
community paper 🎉
If you’ve made substantial contributions to the Galaxy community
ecosystem (core framework, tools, GTN, public server maintenance, user
support, etc.) over the past two years, please add your details as an
author into this form:
https://bit.ly/nar-author-2022
Thank you all!
Bjoern
I have repository https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repository/browse_repository?id=691d87250e82…
When I try to update repository by uploading either tarball or single file, nothing happen - I got a blank page which never updates. When I explored the content of this repository it look like the content was updated partially - Toolshed still shows the revision number 0 but content of files visible through toolshed is updated. However, linked mercurial repository at https://petr-novak@toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/petr-novak/repeat_annotatio… does not have this update. So the content visible through tooshed interface different from content of hg repository.
This is not a first time it happened, I have also other repositories which cannot be updated. Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Petr
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
Dear Community,
The Galaxy Committers team is pleased to announce the release of Galaxy
21.09.
- Developer and admin release announcement
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/releases/21.09_announce.html>
- User release announcement
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/releases/21.09_announce_user.html>
.
A few release highlights are:
Tool Panel Views
We now have "Tool Panel Views"! These are different views into the same
toolbox and might help make it easier to find the tools you want. In the
future, there are plans to create user-customisable toolboxes, but until
then go explore the new EDAM Ontology-based toolboxes which organise tools
around scientific areas or processes. For example, a category like
"Filtering" might have tools like "select lines" or "filter bam by
quality", both doing the same process of filtering, despite their different
file types and formats.
Unfortunately, not all tools are fully annotated yet, and while we also
pull terms from bio.tools, this still doesn't get us full coverage and many
tools will still appear under a large section "Uncategorized". Hopefully,
this will improve as users and tool developers annotate these tools with
the appropriate terms that help everyone find them.
Collections (Beta History Updates)
Did you ever create *a collection with the wrong dbkey or datatype*? Well,
in the Beta History you can now change collections' datatypes and dbkeys!
This should save a lot of time for everyone working with large datasets (Pull
Request 11799 <https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/pull/11799/>).
Additionally, did a *collection ever fail* for you? And you wondered why?
Now you can find out with the view details button for collections (Pull
Request 12261 <https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/pull/12261>)!
Importing Data
Selecting datasets from the Remote Files view has gotten easier! Now, you
can select folders and files and import at once all of the datasets
recursively in those folders. Previously, you could only select files
within a folder, so this is a huge improvement in the usability of such a
key new feature of Galaxy (Pull Request 12310
<https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/pull/12310>). But with great power
comes great responsibility, be careful not to import the entirety of NCBI!
Reports
Report components used to automatically arrange themselves in a smart way,
but due to some issues with the floating of components, these will now be
full width until we can figure out a good way to provide a similar
feature (Pull
Request 12085 <https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/pull/12085>).
Enhancements for Working with Remote Data and Distributed Computing
Resources
Many fixes and enhancements were made to improve how Galaxy can import and
write to remote data using the configured file source plugins. In addition
to the History Export functionality, which can write to remote locations,
we have added an Export datasets Tool for exporting individual Datasets and
Dataset collections to configured remote locations. The Tool will
automatically maintain the name and structure of Datasets and Dataset
Collections. We have added the possibility to import entire folders of
remote data and made the data selection dialog more intuitive. We also
added numerous improvements and fixes to the extended metadata collection
strategy and Pulsar <https://github.com/galaxyproject/pulsar>, so that many
more tools are able to run in Pulsar
<https://github.com/galaxyproject/pulsar> and write data back to storage
without passing through Galaxy first.
Migration to FastAPI and Extended Documentation of API Routes
We have modernized and migrated many more API routes to FastAPI and have
extended the documentation and validation of these routes.
Migration to SQLAlchemy 1.4 and Declarative Mapping
Galaxy is now using SQLAlchemy <https://www.sqlalchemy.org/> version 1.4,
which is a prerequisite for asynchronously interacting with the database.
We also modernized the way our database models are defined to the more
commonly used Declarative Mapping approach, which is more concise and
better documented.
Modernization of Tool Form Interface
The tool form interface has been almost completely migrated from Backbone
<https://backbonejs.org/> to Vue <https://vuejs.org/>. This improves the
reactivity of parameter validation and enables the migration of tool
parameters to Vue, which will also allow us to add many more types of tool
parameters. We further migrated the tool form variant for the Workflow
Editor, the Workflow run form and the Show Dataset Parameter page to Vue.
New User Welcome Page
We have added a page that new users will be directed to after creating a
new Galaxy account.
Release Notes
Please see the full release notes
<https://docs.galaxyproject.org/en/latest/releases/21.09_announce.html> for
a lot more details and instructions for upgrading your Galaxy installation.
Thanks for using Galaxy!
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/