This event is open to everyone!
We are pleased to announce the following presentation:
- Speaker: Hans-Rudolf Hotz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
- Time: Wednesday, 18 November 2026, 10:00–11:00
- Zoom: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/66607598832
Abstract
The Galaxy project offers an open-source platform that allows researchers to analyse and share scientific data using interoperable APIs and various user-friendly web-based interfaces. One of the key features of the Galaxy platform is its emphasis on transparency, reproducibility, and reusability. Galaxy is a multi-user environment which facilitates sharing of e.g. tools, workflows, notebooks, visualisations, and data with others.
The Galaxy project was launched in 2005 and has since become a powerful framework for researchers across a wide range of research fields, including omics, biodiversity, machine learning, cheminformatics, NLP, material science, climate research, and humanities. It can be installed on any kind of hardware from a simple, single box to HPC centres. We have been using Galaxy at the Friedrich Miescher Institute since 2008. Thanks to the flexible nature of the platform, we have added several local tools interacting with other FMI services. I will show how (wet lab) scientists use Galaxy as a “steppingstone” into Computational Biology.