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The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2018 update

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Afgan, Enis, Baker, Dannon, Batut, Bérénice, van den Beek, Marius, Bouvier, Dave, Čech, Martin, Chilton, John, Clements, Dave +12 more·2018·Nucleic Acids Research

Abstract

Galaxy (homepage: https://galaxyproject.org, main public server: https://usegalaxy.org) is a web-based scientific analysis platform used by tens of thousands of scientists across the world to analyze large biomedical datasets such as those found in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and imaging. Started in 2005, Galaxy continues to focus on three key challenges of data-driven biomedical science: making analyses accessible to all researchers, ensuring analyses are completely reproducible, and making it simple to communicate analyses so that they can be reused and extended. During the last two years, the Galaxy team and the open-source community around Galaxy have made substantial improvements to Galaxy's core framework, user interface, tools, and training materials. Framework and user interface improvements now enable Galaxy to be used for analyzing tens of thousands of datasets, and >5500 tools are now available from the Galaxy ToolShed. The Galaxy community has led an effort to create numerous high-quality tutorials focused on common types of genomic analyses. The Galaxy developer and user communities continue to grow and be integral to Galaxy's development. The number of Galaxy public servers, developers contributing to the Galaxy framework and its tools, and users of the main Galaxy server have all increased substantially.

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  • IQ-TREE is an integral component of many popular open-source applications such as Galaxy, Nextstrain, OrthoFinder, and QIIME 2.

    “For instance, it is an integral component of many popular open-source applications such as Galaxy (Afgan et al. 2018), Nextstrain (Hadfield et al. 2018), OrthoFinder (Emms and Kelly 2015), and QIIME 2 (Bolyen et al. 2019).”
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Afgan, E., Baker, D., Batut, B., van den Beek, M., Bouvier, D., Čech, M., Chilton, J., Clements, D., Coraor, N., Grüning, B. A., Guerler, A., Hillman-Jackson, J., Hiltemann, S., Jalili, V., Rasche, H., Soranzo, N., Goecks, J., Taylor, J., Nekrutenko, A., & Blankenberg, D.
Affiliations
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • University of Freiburg (DE)
  • Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Paris, France
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
  • Erasmus MC (NL)
  • Oregon Health & Science University (US)
  • Earlham Institute (GB)
  • Cleveland Clinic (US)
Corresponding author
Blankenberg, Daniel
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2018-05-22
Volume
46
Issue
W1
Pages
W537-W544
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W2917207851
Cited by
3,662
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 203 · 2025: 303 · 2024: 412 · 2023: 522 · 2022: 654 · 2021: 645 · 2020: 543 · 2019: 327 · 2018: 49 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
FWCI
559.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • RePub (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) (submittedVersion)
  • RePub (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (HG006620, HG005133, HG004909, HG005542)
  • NSF (DBI 0543285, 0850103, 1661497)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
Galaxy platform, web-based analysis tool, reproducible analysis, open source software, genomic data analysis, biomedical data analysis, user interface, software framework, community development, training materials
MeSH terms
Humans, International Cooperation, User-Computer Interface, Reproducibility of Results, Internet, Genomics, Information Dissemination, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Molecular Imaging, Datasets as Topic

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