Hi all,

Join us for a one-day hackathon focused on integrating, refining, and FAIRifying microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows within the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC), enhancing their accessibility and reusability for the microbiology community.

https://galaxyproject.org/events/2024-03-11-hackathon-galaxy-resources-annotation/

Objectives

The primary goal of this hackathon is to prepare, integrate, and FAIRify microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows within the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC), ensuring they adhere to best practices for accessibility, interoperability, and reusability across the bioinformatics community. IWC acts as a central hub for Galaxy workflows, automatically listing them in major registries like Dockstore and WorkflowHub, while ensuring workflows are rigorously reviewed, tested, and updated with every new Galaxy release. Versioning, tool updates, and essential metadata enhance the findability and usability of each workflow.

In short, the objectives of this hackathon are to:

• Annotate and apply best practices to microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows for consistency and reusability

• Implement robust tests to ensure workflow reliability and accuracy

• Successfully integrate key microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows into IWC, improving accessibility and usability

• Collaborate as a community to refine and improve workflows, ensuring they are peer-reviewed and meet high standards

• Make these peer-reviewed workflows accessible to the broader community through the future microGalaxy Lab

This hackathon is open to participants from all communities, so join us to help shape the future of bioinformatics workflows!

General information

• Date: November 21th 2024 (one day)

• Location: Online

• a Zoom room, open the whole day

• 2 daily stand-ups to accommodate different time zones

• microGalaxy Matrix chat for communication

• Time: full day, 9/10 am CET to open end

• Cost: Free

Preliminary Schedule

The schedule is quite flexible. There is no requirement to join the whole week. 

See the event page for more details about the planned schedule (stand-ups, brainstorming meetings): https://galaxyproject.org/events/2024-03-11-hackathon-galaxy-resources-annotation/#preliminary-schedule.

Participation

To participate, add your name, your affiliation, your availability during the week, and your email in the "Participation" section of the organizational GDoc so we can include you in further communication: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B125dSKhB6AevnyShSi_zXIXUQd49tvNYfWHuyqmArY/edit#bookmark=id.n7z8twvetdc6

We hope to see a lot of you, even if it is just to say hi :)

Best,

Paul and Bérénice