Galaxy Resources

Overview

Galaxy Australia is a nationally funded, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research. The benefits of Galaxy Australia include:

• No cost for researchers to use, as it is a fully subsidised service with long term national funding.
• Enables users without programming experience to easily run individual bioinformatics tools as well as larger workflows.
• Captures data processing/analysis details so that users can repeat and understand complex computational analysis.
• Enables users to share and publish analyses via the web.
• Underpinned by nationally supported high performance computing infrastructure, configured to support all manner of computationally intensive bioinformatics data analysis.
• Can be used to analyse a broad variety of data types and data sources. These can include de-identified human data. All data uploaded to and processed on Galaxy Australia remains within Australia (no data is transferred overseas).
• Offers workbenches tailored for research domains through Galaxy Labs (there are Labs currently available and tailored for the domains of Genomics, Proteomics, Single Cell and Microbiology).
• Has an extensive library of free online training materials.
• Has supported over 600 scientific publications since 2020, including in Science, Nature Plants, Nature Communications and GigaScience.

More details are available in this flyer (download from Zenodo) created in 2023 by the Australian BioCommons, who run the Galaxy Australia platform.

Acknowledgements

Melbourne Bioinformatics

Melbourne Bioinformatics requests that the following acknowledgement statement be included in publications (e.g. journal articles or thesis) resulting from research supported by Melbourne Bioinformatics (replacing "AUTHORS(S)" with the author names).

• "AUTHORS(S) would like to acknowledge Melbourne Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at University of Melbourne for its support while conducting the research presented in this work."

Galaxy Australia

When you use Galaxy Australia in support of your publication or project, please acknowledge its use with the following acknowledgement statement.

• "This work is supported by Galaxy Australia, a service provided by Australian BioCommons and its partners. The service receives NCRIS funding through Bioplatforms Australia, as well as The University of Melbourne and Queensland Government RICF funding."

Please also cite the Galaxy publication.

• The Galaxy Community, The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2024 update, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 52, Issue W1, 5 July 2024, Pages W83-W94, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae410

See the Best Practices for Citing Galaxy tutorial for a guide on how to cite Galaxy in your publications and prepare your Methodology based on your Galaxy history.

Support

Melbourne Bioinformatics employs full-time support through Tristan Reynolds (Galaxy Outreach Specialist) for helping Galaxy Australia users. Email treynolds@unimelb.edu.au or contact us to arrange a one-on-one discussion about how you can use Galaxy Australia in your research, a seminar or a training session.

In addition to our regular Galaxy-based workshops, we can also provide training tailored to the specific needs of individual research groups. Support is available for using Galaxy Australia in formal coursework teaching and for setting up research analysis in Galaxy Australia, including

• Uploading and using datasets
• Selecting analysis tools
• Creating analysis pipelines (Galaxy workflows)
• Liaising with the Galaxy Australia team where necessary to resolve tool errors
• Requesting increased data storage quotas
• Requesting new tools and new reference datasets

Eligibility

Our Galaxy Australia training and support is available to researchers and students from the University of Melbourne and its affiliated research institutes.

Published Tutorials

The Galaxy Training Network contains an extensive range of Galaxy training material and resources. On this page you can find links to all of the published Galaxy Training Network tutorials that Melbourne Bioinformatics has contributed to.

Published Workflows

Example Galaxy Workflow (Taxonomy Assignment with QIIME2)

Publishing Galaxy Workflows

Galaxy workflows can be exported and published to a number of online repositories:

• Galaxy IWC - Workflow Library
• WorkflowHub
• Dockstore

The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) also contains Galaxy workflows that are associated with specific GTN tutorials. Workflows published and accessed through any of the above repositories can be downloaded and imported into Galaxy Australia.

On this page you can find links to published Galaxy Workflows that were developed with support from Melbourne Bioinformatics.