Galaxy project guide
In 2005, an open source project developing a new scientific workflow platform started something very unusual. It ran the current version on real hardware, providing 24x7, high availability, accessible, useful and free data analysis services, for any researcher with a web browser.
Today, running the current code at huge scale to provide free and heavily used analysis services, still distinguishes Galaxy from most other open source projects. Useful data intensive results from large raw data inputs, require high throughput computing on large allocations of expensive infrastructure resources. Services providing these at no cost to researchers are rare. Few are as heavily used in terms of publications or throughput, or in such a large number of different scientific disciplines. Comparable commercial closed source analysis services are very expensive, and may not offer the transparency required for independent scrutiny, to provide evidence of scientific trustworthess for their computed results.
Aside from reliability and scientific transparency, “free” might explain why many researchers choose Galaxy for their work. If you made that professional choice in the light of available alternatives, you may have wondered:
- Who runs Galaxy?
- How can they give away highly valued analysis and support services?
- Where do all the shareable tools, workflows and training materials come from?
- How do researchers make Galaxy fit their own specialised analysis needs?
- What needs to be done to help keep Galaxy available for my work in the future?
Like many good questions, the answers turn out to involve a number of complicated moving parts, but this training Topic will help. It is a user’s manual for Galaxy. A field guide to the components, activities and resources of the project, in the context of the global open science ecosystem.
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You can view the tutorial materials in different languages by clicking the dropdown icon next to the slides (slides) and tutorial (tutorial) buttons below.Material
Galaxy instances
You can use a public Galaxy instance which has been tested for the availability of the used tools. They are listed along with the tutorials above.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions regarding this topic have been collected on a dedicated FAQ page . Common questions related to specific tutorials can be accessed from the tutorials themselves.Maintainers
This material is maintained by:
Ross Lazarus
For any question related to this topic and the content, you can contact them or visit our Gitter channel.
Contributors
This material was contributed to by:
Timothy J. Griffin
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