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Galaxy Tool Integration

Galaxy is a platform for building, running and sharing reproducible and FAIR image analysis workflows. It enables you to apply state-of-the-art image analysis tools tailored to your own research question without the need of advanced programming skills. Galaxy promotes both open science and collaboration across scientific domains including life sciences.

Who is the service recommended for?

  • Life scientists
  • Bioimage analysts and computational experts
  • Course organisers/trainers

Which infrastructure do you need?

  • A workstation or laptop with internet connection

Which expertise do you need?

  • general usage of Galaxy: only basic training efforts required
  • for image analysis using Galaxy: basic or advanced knowledge in bioimage analysis and the used workflow(s) 

What is Galaxy and how can you benefit from it?

Galaxy is an open, web-based platform developed by the Galaxy Image Analysis Community 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 both small datasets to 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:

This part is still in progress, stay tuned for the update! Contact our Help Desk for urgent requests. 

Explore the list of available image analysis workflows offered in Galaxy and push your analysis further by creating your own.
Get to know the Freiburg Galaxy team lead by TA2 lead Björn Grüning, here at the 2025 EOSC Symposium.
Explore the many training materials with a focus on imaging about Galaxy on the Galaxy project website.
Galaxy meets OMERO: Explore how image data from OMERO servers can be accessed using Galaxy.
Watch this introduction video on getting started in Galaxy and a showcase how to apply the Voronoi segmentation workflow (EOSC Symposium 2025).