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Galaxy Tool Integration for Bioimaging
Galaxy is an open-source platform for accessible, reproducible scientific data analysis. It lets researchers run powerful analysis tools and workflows through a web browser without requiring programming skills. Galaxy Imaging is a specialized Galaxy environment focused on image data, providing tools and workflows for image management, processing, and analysis without the need for coding. Through the NFDI4BIOIMAGE Galaxy Tool Integration service, bioimage analysis tools are integrated into Galaxy Imaging, making them available within reproducible, scalable, and user-friendly workflows for the broader imaging community.
What is Galaxy and how can you benefit from it?
Galaxy Imaging is an open, web-based platform that makes advanced image analysis accessible, reproducible and collaborative. It is characterized by
- Low technical barriers: Galaxy offers web-based analysis with user-friendly graphical interfaces and does not require programming skills
- Support of data and metadata management: Galaxy supports common image formats and structured metadata, persistent storage and uses data libraries for shared data organization.
- High reproducibility: Galaxy records tool versions, input data, analysis steps and parameters for reproducible analysis.
- High transparency: Galaxy allows inspection and sharing of workflows and histories.
- Easy collaboration: Galaxy allows the sharing of datasets, workflows and overall analyses with colleagues or a wider community.
- Scalability: Workflows can be executed on small datasets but also on large studies, making use of high-performance or cloud computing resources, depending on your research needs
- Community formation: Galaxy provides a framework for scientists, image analysts and computational experts across disciplines
How to get started:
- Access the Galaxy Imaging website. In case you or your institution have access to services such as Life Science Login, NFDI-AAI, EOSC AAI or EGI-Check In, you can login using those. Alternatively, register to be able to use Galaxy.
- Learn how to use Galaxy for image analysis workflows and explore the hands-on material.
- For an easy start explore and rerun existing imaging workflows before you create you own workflow tailored to your project.
- Contribute to the Galaxy Community to advance this image analysis workflow hub.
- Check how to connect external storage to Galaxy here!
Galaxy offers its own default storage system (250 GB) plus a short term storage (2 TB). However, you can connect personal data storage (e.g. GDrive, S3 Buckets) or repositories (e.g. OMERO, Onedata, IDR, FTP Server, RSpace, Hugging Face Hub).
NFDI4BIOIMAGE Tip: Try to connect S3 storage to upgrade your image analysis experience!
Explore the list of available image analysis workflows offered in Galaxy and push your analysis further by creating your own.
