Objectives

The primary goal of this hackathon is to prepare, integrate, and FAIRify microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows within the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC), ensuring they adhere to best practices for accessibility, interoperability, and reusability across the bioinformatics community. IWC acts as a central hub for Galaxy workflows, automatically listing them in major registries like Dockstore and WorkflowHub, while ensuring workflows are rigorously reviewed, tested, and updated with every new Galaxy release. Versioning, tool updates, and essential metadata enhance the findability and usability of each workflow.

In short, the objectives of this hackathon are to:

• Annotate and apply best practices to microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows for consistency and reusability
• Implement robust tests to ensure workflow reliability and accuracy
• Successfully integrate key microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows into IWC, improving accessibility and usability
• Collaborate as a community to refine and improve workflows, ensuring they are peer-reviewed and meet high standards
• Make these peer-reviewed workflows accessible to the broader community through the future microGalaxy Lab

This hackathon is open to participants from all communities, so join us to help shape the future of bioinformatics workflows! Experts and IWC experienced users will be participating in the hackathon to support and explain the requirements during the event.

General Information

• Date: November 21st, 2024 (one day)
• Location: Online
• Time: full day, 9 am CET to open end
• Cost: Free
• Contact: Bérénice Batut, Paul Zierep

Online Attendance

We appreciate your participation from anywhere!

We will have a Zoom room, open the whole week from 9 am to 5 pm CET (Check the link in the Coordination section)

We will use the microGalaxy Matrix chat for communication: https://matrix.to/#/#galaxyproject_microGalaxy:gitter.im

We will also coordinate the work using a coordination Google doc

Participation

Registration is free. The space is unlimited.

To participate, add your name, your affiliation, your availability during the week, and your email in the "Participation" section of the organizational GDoc so we can include you in further communication.

Schedule

The schedule is quite flexible. There is no requirement to join the whole day. 2 daily stand-ups will be run to accommodate different time zones.

Event rules and regulations

The Hackathon will abide the Galaxy Project CoC. Please, make sure that you read it before the event.

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