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DOI 10.1093/nar/gkag469
Licence creative commons licence
Title (Primary) Galaxy for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2026 update
Author Afgan, E.; Amoukou, N.; Buono, R.A.; Anton, M.; Antoniewski, C.; Austin, P.; Awan, A.H.; Backofen, R.; Bacon, W.A.; Baker, D.; Barreau, A.; Batut, B.; Bernt, M. ORCID logo ; Blankenberg, D., et al.
Source Titel Nucleic Acids Research
Year 2026
Department COMPBC
Volume 54
Issue W1
Page From W105
Page To W116
Language englisch
Topic T9 Healthy Planet
Abstract Galaxy (https://galaxyproject.org), now in its third decade, is a globally accessible, community-driven platform for reproducible and collaborative data analysis. With over 650 000 registered users, major public servers handle ~2 000 000 monthly analysis jobs from ~20 000 users. Recent, massive modernization has overhauled the user interface and workflow infrastructure to improve usability and scalability. Key updates include a redesigned history interface, enhanced tool discovery, a centralized dataset view, and a new visualization framework. Workflow editing is now substantially enhanced with search, undo/redo, and new invocation graph views. Data management is more flexible with intelligent sample sheet handling, expanded collection support, redesigned file source interfaces, and the introduction of “scratch” storage. User-defined repositories like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Zenodo are now enabled by default. Coupled with the growth of the Galaxy Training Network, these advances solidify Galaxy as a robust, widely adopted AI-ready ecosystem for open science.
Afgan, E., Amoukou, N., Buono, R.A., Anton, M., Antoniewski, C., Austin, P., Awan, A.H., Backofen, R., Bacon, W.A., Baker, D., Barreau, A., Batut, B., Bernt, M., Blankenberg, D., et al. (2026):
Galaxy for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2026 update
Nucleic Acids Res. 54 (W1), W105 - W116
10.1093/nar/gkag469