Dear microGalaxy community,

I am happy to announce the microGalaxy Hackathon for Tool Development, taking place online on 14 October 2026!

The goal of the hackathon is to dedicate a day to updating and maintaining outdated, highly used metagenomics tools in the Galaxy IUC repository.

The idea is to provide a dedicated block of time for tool maintenance and coordinate efforts across the community. Even if you can only join for a few hours or during the US/AU/EU overlap, you are very welcome to participate.

Details: https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-09-22-microgalaxy-hackathon/

Best,
Paul

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Dr. Paul Zierep
Chair for Bioinformatics
Department of Computer Science
University of Freiburg
Georges-Koehler-Allee 079, 
Room 1005a,
D-79110 Freiburg, Germany

E-mail: zierep@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Tel. 0049 761 203 54129

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https://galaxyproject.eu
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