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

🤖 Plain-English Summary

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.

🔑 Key Findings

• 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.
• Applying the principles of user experience design (UXD), has driven improvements in accessibility, tool discoverability through Galaxy Labs/subdomains, and a redesigned Galaxy ToolShed.
• 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.

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