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The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2024 update

📅 Published: May 20, 2024 👤 The Galaxy Community, Linelle Ann L Abueg, Enis Afgan et al. 📖 Nucleic Acids Research 📊 794 citations
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Galaxy (https://galaxyproject.org) is deployed globally, predominantly through free-to-use services, supporting user-driven research that broadens in scope each year. Code development continues in line with the Galaxy Project roadmap, with improvements to job scheduling and the user interface.

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Key Findings
  • 1 Users are attracted to public Galaxy services by platform stability, tool and reference dataset diversity, training, support and integration, which enables complex, reproducible, shareable data analysis.
  • 2 Applying the principles of user experience design (UXD), has driven improvements in accessibility, tool discoverability through Galaxy Labs/subdomains, and a redesigned Galaxy ToolShed.
  • 3 Galaxy tool capabilities are progressing in two strategic directions: integrating general purpose graphical processing units (GPGPU) access for cutting-edge methods, and licensed tool support.
Why It Matters

This work deepens our understanding of the fundamental laws governing the universe, from subatomic particles to cosmic structures.

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Article Details
Source OpenAlex
Category ⚛️ Physics & Space Science
Published May 20, 2024
Journal Nucleic Acids Research
DOI 10.1093/nar/gkae410
Citations 794
Authors The Galaxy Community, Linelle Ann L Abueg, Enis Afgan, Olivier Allart, Ahmed Awan