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🎉 Half a million users. One stellar community.
usegalaxy.org surpassed 500,000 users in October 2026!
Thank you to everyone who makes Galaxy a place to explore, discover, and share. Here’s to the next chapter of open science! 🚀

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Galaxy Project milestone graphic on a blue background with gold and white confetti. Text reads: “500,000+ users. Half a million users. One incredible community.” The Galaxy Project logo appears at the top and usegalaxy.org at the bottom.
November 2, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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ELIXIR highlights how sustained investments in research infrastructure have supported the development and impact of Galaxy.
https://elixir-europe.org/news/impact-elixir-funding

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The impact of ELIXIR's funding | ELIXIR
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November 3, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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From the @commsbio.nature.com journal | #Microbiology #Galaxy Lab: a community-driven gateway for reproducible and #FAIR analysis of microbiological #data | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #Genomics #OpenScience #UseGalaxy CC/ @galaxyproject.bsky.social | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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Microbiology Galaxy Lab: a community-driven gateway for reproducible and FAIR analysis of microbiological data - Communications Biology
Microbiology Galaxy Lab provides a community-driven, democratized ecosystem of tools, workflows, training, and computational infrastructure enabling accessible and reproducible microbial research acro...
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October 30, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Eight contributors, one day, and a pile of outdated metagenomics tools — here is what the October 14th microGalaxy hackathon achieved!
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-19-microgalaxy-hackathon-outcomes/

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One Day, Many Tool Updates: microGalaxy Hackathon Recap
Eight contributors, one day, and a pile of outdated metagenomics tools — here is what the October 14th microGalaxy hackathon achieved!
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October 28, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Galaxy's integration of BioImage.IO AI models, an example of good practice in AI-enabled science
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-21-raise-registry/

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Fluorescence microscopy image of cell nuclei with red segmentation contours drawn by the BioImage.IO NucleiSegmentationBoundaryModel in Galaxy. Landsat satellite image of Arctic thermokarst ponds with 152 water bodies outlined in red by the same nuclei segmentation model, applied without retraining.
October 29, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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The miaDash Shiny app from the Bioconductor microbiome team is now an interactive tool on usegalaxy.eu: import, analyse and visualise microbiome data without writing a line of code.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-21-miadash-interactive-tool/

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The miaDash logo DADA2, mothur, QIIME 2, LotuS2, Kraken2 with Bracken, MetaPhlAn, HUMAnN and FAIRyMAGs feed prepared tables into miaDash. Output panels include abundance barplots, heatmaps, ordination, scree and loading plots, trees, networks, scatter plots and boxplots, alongside data exports to Galaxy. The iSEE explorer launched from miaDash, showing the interactive panels
October 28, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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A Galaxy-centric report from the EOSC symposium in Florence.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-20-eosc-symposium-2026/

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Galaxy as a use case at the EOSC Node Germany booth: the booth's table features wooden toy train tracks in the "infinity" shape and colors of the EOSC logo. The train has come to a stop at the "Galaxy" station. There are also various Galaxy stickers and pins distributed on the table. Wolfgang at the stage of the auditorium of the Palazzo dei Congressi presenting a slide showing a complex Galaxy workflow invocation titled: "Relax and let Galaxy's workflow engine do the hard work for you"
October 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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🦠 Explore your microbiome data interactively with miaDash, now available on usegalaxy.eu! Import data, explore diversity, and create interactive visualizations in your browser. No coding required.

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October 23, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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EOSC-MESH kickoff meeting in Ghent: Galaxy helps extend the European Open Science Cloud!
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-20-eosc-mesh-kickoff/

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EOSC-MESH kickoff meeting group photo
October 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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48 hours, ocean data and fresh ideas! Galaxy Europe's Earth System Sciences platform joins the Ocean Hackathon adventure.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-13-gess-for-ocean-hackathon/

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Ocean Hackathon 2026 Galaxy for Earth System Sciences Example of a marine data analysis workflow using Galaxy Europe
October 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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🌊 Galaxy Europe is diving into Ocean Hackathon 2026!

From October 16–18, teams across 11 cities will turn marine data into innovative solutions, with Galaxy for Earth System Sciences supporting accessible, reproducible analysis.

🌐 galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10...

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Galaxy Europe Goes Ocean: Ready for Ocean Hackathon 2026!
48 hours, ocean data and fresh ideas! Galaxy Europe's Earth System Sciences platform joins the Ocean Hackathon adventure.
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October 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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and analyze your own LC-MS, GC-MS or NMR data through tutoring sessions.

📍 Rennes, France
📅 5 April 2027
🔗 More info & registration: https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/events/2027-04-05-workflow4experimenters-2027.html

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Workflow4Experimenters 2027
Analyze your data with Galaxy and the Workflow4Metabolomics infrastructure! During this one-week-long on-site course (preceded by half-a-week of webinars), you will learn how to use the W4M-promoted Galaxy tools for metabolomics, and analyze your own LC-MS, GC-MS or NMR data through tutoring sessions.
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October 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Are you at ASM-BIG? Stop by the Galaxy table during the poster sessions to chat about microbial workflows, ask questions, grab some CANDY, or just say hi!

https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-10-11-asm

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October 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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📣 microGalaxy Hackathon for Tool Development

Join the microGalaxy community on October 14th to update outdated metagenomics tools in the IUC repository!

📍 Online
📅 14 October 2026
🔗 More info & registration: https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-10-14-microgalaxy-hackathon/

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microGalaxy Hackathon for Tool Development
Join the microGalaxy community on October 14th to update outdated metagenomics tools in the IUC repository!
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October 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Are you at ASM-BIG? Stop by the Galaxy table during the poster sessions to chat about microbial workflows, ask questions, grab some CANDY, or just say hi!

https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-10-11-asm

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October 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Efficient start of the ESG4Stars project with kick-off meeting, general assembly and first collaborative working days all in one week
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-12-esg4stars-kicked-off/

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Opening presentation of the kick-off meeting Group photo of participants taken in front of the main building of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Freiburg on the very sunny October afternoon of day 1 The five high-level objectives of ESG4Stars: track smarter, transfer less, store less, compute less and drive change printed in the style of an energy label together with short catch phrases - Make energy use visible, measurable and FAIR; Move only the necessary data; Optimise storage footprints with storage classes and modern file formats; Reduce redundant processing and allocate right-sized resources; Raise awareness and drive adoption into European research infrastructures - explaining each objective
October 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Circumvent context window limits of LLMs by splitting long texts into manageable chunks
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10-02-langchain-text-splitters/

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Demo of LangChain Text Splitters in Galaxy
October 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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📄 Long text + LLM context limits? Galaxy can help.
The new LangChain Text Splitters tool breaks long texts into manageable chunks for tasks like summarization, translation & RAG, all within Galaxy workflows. 🤖✨

Learn more: galaxyproject.org/news/2026-10...

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LangChain Text Splitters, the Missing Link when Processing Long Texts with LLMs
Circumvent context window limits of LLMs by splitting long texts into manageable chunks
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October 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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Across 160 bioinformatics tasks, agents using Galaxy achieved accuracy comparable to agents writing custom code.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-09-21-ai-agents-benchmark/

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October 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Yes, I agree: 😞

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hrhotz.bsky.social Hans-Rudolf Hotz @hrhotz.bsky.social · Sep 30
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stephenturner.us Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Sep 30
Reproducibility in biomedical research www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔓 rdcu.be/65xyNmVgEmTa
October 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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🔬 Lab data 🤝 Galaxy analysis

A new openBIS integration lets you browse and import lab files directly into Galaxy, run your analyses, and send results back to openBIS. Fewer manual file transfers, smoother workflows.

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Connecting openBIS and Galaxy: from lab data to analysis and back
Browse openBIS files in Galaxy, analyse them, and return results to your lab notebook
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September 25, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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🦠🛠️ Join the **microGalaxy Tool Development Hackathon** on October 14!

Help update highly used metagenomics tools in Galaxy’s IUC repository and contribute alongside the microGalaxy community.

🌐 Online + free to participate
🔗 galaxyproject.org/news/2026-09...

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microGalaxy Hackathon for Tool Development
Join the microGalaxy community on October 14th to update outdated metagenomics tools in the IUC repository!
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September 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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📣 Introduction to the Data Analysis Platform Galaxy (in German)

📍 Freiburg, Germany
📅 2 December 2026
🔗 More info & registration: https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-12-02-ub-cl/

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Introduction to the Data Analysis Platform Galaxy (in German)
Galaxy Community Hub
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September 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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The Image Analysis in Galaxy community is happy to share the first publication on bioimage data analysis, management and community practices in Galaxy
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-09-16-bioimagingpub-jm/

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Galaxy single-cell and spatial omics graphical abstract
September 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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At IUSSI 2026 in Freiburg, Mina Hojat Ansari presented how reproducible, multi-layer metagenomic analysis in Galaxy helps investigate termite gut microbiome recovery after molting.
https://galaxyproject.org/news/2026-09-08-galaxy-iussi/

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Group photograph of participants at the 20th International Congress of IUSSI in Freiburg Title slide of Mina Hojat Ansari’s IUSSI 2026 presentation on termite gut microbiome reassembly using Galaxy
September 10, 2026 at 6:25 PM