Galaxy 2024

Galaxy 2024

Galaxy is an integrated informatics solution supporting data analysis and research discovery that is used by hundreds of thousands of researchers worldwide. The Galaxy platform has been available at the University of Minnesota, through MSI, since 2011. The platform has grown considerably since its early days and continues to do so.

An overview of the current state of Galaxy was recently published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. Two MSI PIs, Professor Timothy Griffin, Faculty Director, Center for Metabolomics and Proteomics (formerly, Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics), and Research Assistant Professor Pratik Jagtap, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, are co-authors on the paper. Professors Griffin and Jagtap lead the Galaxy-P (Galaxy for Proteomics) team. Galaxy-P is an extension of Galaxy that focuses on “multi-omic” analysis integrating genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data to gain new insights into biological systems. This includes proteogenomics, metaproteomics, and immunopeptidomics analytical workflows. The MSI software-development staff are also members of the team. Professors Griffin and Jagtap also lead the Proteogenomics Shared Resources as part of the Masonic Cancer Center, which uses the multi-omic workflows developed as part of the Galaxy-P project to advance cancer research projects.

The paper, which gives an overview of the Galaxy platform in 2024, discusses enhancements to the Galaxy Toolshed, the Galaxy Training Network, improvements to the user interface and software, and other developments. Using user experience design principles, the Galaxy team has improved the user interface. More tools are available to Galaxy users, and the development of more workflows has increased the amount of global research collaboration that is possible in the platform. Training available through the Galaxy Training Network has also grown. The paper can be found on the journal website: The Galaxy Community (Timothy Griffin, Pratik Jagtap). The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2024 update. Nucleic Acids Research 52: W83-W94 (2024). doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae410. 

Instructions for using Galaxy at MSI are available on the MSI website. 

Image description: Galaxy platform 2024.

Graphic overview of Galaxy in 2024

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