The 2020 Bioinformatics Community Conference (BCC2020) brings together the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) and Galaxy Community Conference. If you are working in data intensive life science research then there is no better event for sharing your work, and learning from other researchers addressing the challenges of modern data driven biology. BCC2020 will be held July 17-26, and offer 2 days of training, a 3 day meeting, and a 4 day CollaborationFest.

BCC2020 early registration ends July 10. Registering early saves 50% off of the full rates and starts $3 per training session and $12 for the three day meeting.

All registration ends on July 15.

So get on it.

If the registration rates for BCC2020 are a barrier to your participation, and you are based in a low, lower-middle, or middle-upper income country (as defined by the World Bank) then you are encouraged to apply for a BCC2020 Galaxy Fellowship. Applications are due July 5.

Birds of a Feather (BoFs) are informal, self-organized meetups focused on specific topics. They are a great way to meet other like-minded community members and have an in-depth discussion on a topic of interest.

Any BCC2020 participant is welcome to propose a BoF by July 10! BoFs will be scheduled right before and after the main meeting day in both hemispheres.

GalaxyWorks is a new company providing commercial support, hosting and management, and tool wrapping and custom development for Galaxy. See their announcement to the Galaxy Community for more. If you are in the business of life science, GalaxyWorks is here to help.

Please welcome GalaxyWorks as a new Silver Sponsor of BCC2020.

There are 60 training sessions, covering 36 topics (18 with a Galaxy emphasis), in 2 hemispheres, all adding up to 9000 minutes, or 150 hours of live instruction.

Galaxy topics:

• Introduction to Using Galaxy: East, West
• From stars to constellations: Scaling analyses in Galaxy: East, West
• Adding Fun(ction) to Microbiome Analysis: Metatranscriptomics and Metaproteomics Workflows in Galaxy: West
• Proteomic data analysis in Galaxy: West
• Import, handle, visualize and analyze biodiversity data in Galaxy: East, West
• Processing of Single Cell RNA-Seq Data with Galaxy: East, West
• Introduction to Machine Learning: East, West
• High-throughput molecular dynamics with Galaxy: East
• RNA-Seq analysis with Galaxy: East, West (w/ AskOmics)
• Galaxies for Crop Science: East
• Getting your hands on Climate data: East, West
• Scripting Galaxy with BioBlend: East, West
• Introduction to Galaxy Administration I, II, III: East
• Galaxy Code Architecture: East, West
• Reference data with CVMFS and remote jobs with Pulsar: East, West
• Fit your tools into any platform with Bioconda and BioContainers: West
• Train the Galaxy Trainer: East, West

You can also learn about Git & GitHub, Reactome, R & Bioconductor, InterMine, Glow & Apache Spark, Dockstore, shell, Bionitio, CWL/WDL/Janis/GATK, community, JBrowse, education, Nextflow, and Terra!

The full BCC2020 talk schedule is now online

• Keynotes from Lincoln Stein, Prashanth N Suravajhala, and Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
• 70 long and lightning talks covering the full spectrum of open source bioinformatics.
• Posters and demos too

UseGalaxy.org and the NIH Sequence Read Archive are now directly connected, enabling researchers to work with SRA data available from NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/) more easily within the Galaxy framework. This connection was presented in a webinar on June 24. Slides and video from the webinar and a GTN tutorial (see below) are now available. This functionality will be included in the 2020.05 release.

NIH has released a request for information (RFI) to solicit community feedback on new proposed Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data formats. Learn more and share your thoughts at https://go.usa.gov/xvhdr.

The response deadline is July 17th, 2020. We encourage you all to share with your colleagues and networks, and respond if you are an SRA submitter or data user.

This new bi-weekly forum is an opportunity for presenters (Galaxy users, developers, admins) to engage with the Galaxy developer community interactively. If you have something you want to present then please submit your idea at least a day in advance. See you (every other) Thursday.

ISMB 2020 has gone virtual and Galaxy is going with it: Check out

• a tutorial,
• a COSI keynote,
• four other talks, and
• eight posters

There are four upcoming Galaxy Australia workshops offered by QCIF on Galaxy, RNA-Seq Analysis, and Metagenomics. The first one is 14 July.

There are

• 17 upcoming events (most of them virtual)
• covering, well, everything

And material from some recent past events is now available:

• Machine Learning using Galaxy, slides and video for this week long course supported by ELIXIR.
• Galaxy—Powering Science from the Desktop to Global Cyberinfrastructure, slides and video. A talk presented by Nate Coraor at SGCI June webinar.

The Galaxy-SynBioCAD server provides a suite of interoperable and standardized tools for designing pathways from the design specification (choice of the compound, strain) to the DNA parts to be assembled. SMBL is used for strain and pathway info, and SBOL is used for genetic layouts. The server comes with a tutorial, FAQ, email support and a QuickStart guide.

ARIAWeb supports automated NOE assignment and NMR structure calculation using ARIA (Ambiguous Restraints for Iterative Assignment). ARIAweb does not look like Galaxy, but it uses the Galaxy@Pasteur server for data analysis and workflow execution. ARIAWeb has email support and a mailing list.

• Lots of tool updates on UseGalaxy.eu and UseGalaxy.org.au

The documentation for using Custos in Galaxy got a major update from Juleen Graham and Enis Afgan.

Custos is an NSF-funded project that provides science gateways such as Galaxy with single sign-on, group management, and secret management. Custos authentication for Galaxy is now live on test.galaxyproject.org.

Saskia Hiltemann has added the much requested site-wide search to the Galaxy Training Materials. Find everything you are interested in, e.g. all covid19 tutorials

By Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Jean-Karim Hériché.

Create a workflow that downloads a selection of images from the Image Data Resource, and uses CellProfiler to segment the nuclei and nucleoli. And then extract and export features at three different levels: image, nucleus, nucleolus.

Helena Rasche implemented GTN trainer profile pages, which document their contributions to the Galaxy Training Materials. Check yours out!

This set of tutorials was updated by Helena Rasche to incorporate feedback and discussion with students, during the most recent Galaxy Administration Training in March 2020. The updates covered topics including Ansible, using clusters, CVMFS, external authentication, distributed compute, tool management, quotas, and job metrics, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Thanks to an update by Saskia Hiltemann, GTN tutorials now show a link to Gitter chat help at the bottom of the screen. Authors can configure this to go to topic or tutorial specific chat rooms, or default to the main GTN room.

This tutorial was upgraded by Lucille Delisle to use the latest version of pyGenomeTracks to make publication-quality figures and successfully used in the first official SIB galaxy Training course.

The US Food and Drug Administration has an opening for a Postdoctoral Pharmacology Fellowship in Silver Spring, Maryland.

VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium

... We are building on the internationally used platform FAIRDOMhub for data management, and Galaxy (https://www.usegalaxy.be and https://usegalaxy.eu) for data analysis.

Black Canyon Consulting at NCBI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

By Alexandru Mahmoud, Nuwan Goonasekera, Enis Afgan.

The GVL Beta 3 release features complete analysis on one platform, including training and collaboration.

By Emily Lescak of Code for Science & Society

A conversation with Dave Clements about moving BCC2020 from an in-person to a virtual event, and the opportunities that move enabled.

See

• Developer and admin release announcement
• User release announcement.

Features:

• Many new Interactive Tools
• Data Tables can now be backed by refgenie
• Tool Shed is now Python3 ready, ending a 4 year effort to get to Python 3.
• The Workflow Editor and Workflow Run Form have been re-written in Vue.js.
• Faster startup: Galaxy now caches expanded tool documents, delays creating the tool search index until after startup and creates search indexes incrementally.

Execute workflows on Galaxy using a command line interface, and YAML to specify inputs and parameters.