The JXTX Foundation honors the legacy of Prof. James P. Taylor, champion of open science & mentorship in genomics. Proud to announce 5 scholarship & fellowship awardees attending #GCC2026 in Clermont-Ferrand, France! @galaxyproject.bsky.social Meet them below. 🧵 jxtxfoundation.org/news/2026-5-...

JXTX + JJ Fund 2026 GCC Awardees

JXTX: The James P. Taylor Foundation for Open Science is pleased to announce the 2026 GCC scholarship recipients.

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Galaxy is built by and for the research community, and the newest Galaxy update paper is now published! 🌌 The 2026 update shares the latest Galaxy developments supporting accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analysis. Using Galaxy? This is the paper to cite. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Galaxy for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2026 update

Abstract. Galaxy (https://galaxyproject.org), now in its third decade, is a globally accessible, community-driven platform for reproducible and collaborati

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Eight frontier LLMs, one RNA-seq dataset. We had them reproduce a published Candida auris analysis by using Orbit to drive Galaxy. Six models independently replicated the original SCF1 downregulation finding—while their API costs varied 47× ($2.82–$131.83). Read what we learned: (1/2)

📣 BRC-Analytics at ASM-Microbe 2026 Open Community Forum to discuss activities at the NIAID BRCs. 📍 Courtyard by Marriott, Washington Downtown/Convention Center, 2nd floor, room Shaw A 📅 5 June 2026 🔗 More info & registration: https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-06-05-brc-asm-microbe/

Attending #ASMicrobe? Help shape the future of infectious disease data resources. Join us Friday evening for the Open Community Forum — No registration required. Optional RSVP: Delighted to welcome a slate of distinguished speakers and panelist. pathogendatanetwork.org/network/

Are you using BRC-Analytics.org and want to learn more about how Galaxy works? Join us next week for the Galaxy Training Academy, a free global, online, 24 hour a day training event! Info and registration here: https://gxy.io/GTA2026-info. @galaxyproject.bsky.social #UseGalaxy

🔬 Join us at 10 EDT on 4/10 for Tools for Tomorrow! Marius van den Beek presents on differential gene expression analysis at BRC-Analytics.org in this free BRC webinar. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/NIAIDBRCWebinar @galaxyproject.bsky.social #UseGalaxy

At #Fungal26? Stop by my Friday poster about BRC-Analytics; I'll be giving out free UseGalaxy accounts (always free!) and free demos of BRC-Analytics.org (always free too!). If you can't make it, here it is: https://js2.jetstream-cloud.org:8001/brc-analytics/GSA-fungal-2026-poster.pdf #UseGalaxy

In case you missed it, I gave a talk titled "Reproducing Aspergillus fumigatus Analysis in BRC-Analytics" at AsperFest. The slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wd37Rntkb3ZYf2zYzAyTlj5aspBh8g95/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101127789718768943280&rtpof=true&sd=true. #UseGalaxy

⏰ Don’t forget! GCC2026 fellowship applications close March 15. Graduate students and postdocs can receive support from the JXTX Foundation, JJ Fund, and the Galaxy Community Fund to attend GCC2026 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Learn more and apply here: galaxyproject.org/events/gcc-2...

We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.20.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1900+ with 5000+ assemblies, and over 400 assemblies getting gene track data mirrored from VEuPathDB.org. (1/3)

The JXTX Foundation will provide support to 3 outstanding graduate students in genomics and data sciences to attend the Biology of Genomes meeting at CSHL (meetings.cshl.edu). The deadline is Jan 31 and just takes a short bio and abstract: https://gxy.io/jxtxbog26 @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social

JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship

JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship

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The JXTX Foundation will provide support to 3 outstanding graduate students in genomics and data sciences to attend the Biology of Genomes meeting at CSHL (meetings.cshl.edu). The deadline is Jan 31 and just takes a short bio and abstract: https://gxy.io/jxtxbog26 @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social

JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship

JXTX + CSHL 2026 Biology of Genomes Scholarship

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Join us Friday 12/12 at 10AM EDT for our monthly Tools for Tomorrow BRC webinar! Anton demos C. auris analysis identifying a novel adhesin for skin colonization. Free tools from brc-analytics.org & usegalaxy.org. Info&Reg: https://gxy.io/brc-webinar

Ran the same literature search through Claude Code and ChatGPT. Found ZERO papers in common despite using identical databases. Both searches were useful in finding what I need, but lack of overlap was ... slightly concerning. The lesson: AI tools are powerful but limited. Use multiple (1/2)

Earlier this week, we released a paper titled "From data to publication in a browser with BRC-Analytics: Evolutionary dynamics of coding overlaps in measles virus" (https://gxy.io/brc-measles-wp). This walks through the analysis of a public set of measles RNA-seq data, all done FOR FREE.

🚀 Galaxy is workflows! Check out the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC) - a curated library of Galaxy workflows that makes data analysis accessible to everyone. Community curated, ready to use! Learn more: https://iwc.galaxyproject.org Watch: https://youtu.be/cBHSYrpMV8s #Galaxy (1/2)

We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.17.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1900+ and over 5000 assemblies from all across the taxonomic spectrum, and more improvements to searching ENA and the workflow config UI. (1/3)

If you're at Genome Informatics #GI2025 this week, be sure to stop by the 3 Galaxy posters to chat with Delphine, Mike and Anton about great new things in Galaxy. (1/5)

Congrats to all three recipients! To learn more about the James P. Taylor Foundation for Open Science and this scholarship, go to jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-01.... Enjoy the conference! [8/8]

JXTX Foundation Awards Scholarships for CSHL Genome Informatics 2025

JXTX: The James P. Taylor Foundation for Open Science is pleased to announce the 2025 CSHL Genome Informatics scholarship recipients.

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The James P. Taylor Foundation for Open Science is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 JXTX+CSHL Genome Informatics Scholarships. JXTX provides support for students to attend conferences in CompBio and data science, where they can present their work [1/8]

🧠 Your Galaxy history too complex? Name tags make it easy to track dataset origins and relationships across analyses—no endless renaming needed https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-11-4-tags/ #GalaxyProject #Bioinformatics #Reproducibility

Workflows by day, French wine and cheese by night 🍷🧀 Get ready to join us in Clermont-Ferrand, France for #GCC2026, June 22–26 2026! Learn, collaborate, and celebrate open science in the heart of Auvergne. galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10...

GCC2026: The Galaxy Community is Heading to Clermont-Ferrand, France

Join us in June 2026 in the volcanic heart of Clermont-Ferrand for a week of collaboration, discovery, and open science.

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🐛 Galaxy not working? Don't suffer in silence — report it! Use the built-in reporting feature when something goes wrong. Read more here: https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-30-squish-the-bug/ Let's make Galaxy better together!

🌿 Will you be at #PAG33? Galaxy will be in San Diego for the International Plant & Animal Genome Conference (Jan 9–14, 2026), and we’d love to know who from the Galaxy Community will be there! Let us know 👉 forms.gle/26PRwMH46aho...

Galaxy Community at PAG33

Let us know you’ll be at PAG33! The Galaxy Project will be at the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG33) in San Diego, California, from January 9–14, 2026, and we’d love to know who ...

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Use parallel-download to get data from NCBI SRA. See how here -> https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-23-sra-download/

Discover one of Galaxy’s true superpowers — dataset collections! 🌟 Check out the blog (https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-10-21-whycollections/) and video (https://youtu.be/yehY9tR_NX8?si=YH9CZ5KGWm2yVyPA) to see how they can simplify your workflows. You might just find yourself wondering, (1/2)

If you missed the inaugural all-BRC webinar last week, a video is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DtuD2YTCT30 Presenters introduced the three BRCs (BV-BRC, PDN and BRC-Analytics) in a tight 30 minutes. @bvbrc.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce a new release of https://BRC-Analytics.org (v0.16.0). This release updates the number of included organisms to 1400+ and a nearly 2000 assemblies (adding many bacteria and helminths), and some significant improvements to searching ENA and the workflow config UI. (1/2)

Reminder: on Friday we are hosting a webinar for the NIAID-funded BRCs at 14:00 UTC. To join, you must register here first: https://gxy.io/brc-webinar-reg @bvbrc.bsky.social