Join us for an intensive, week-long, in-person training designed to elevate your Galaxy expertise to new heights. This workshop is tailored for data scientists, advanced Galaxy users, and team leaders who need to scale, automate, and publish their data analysis workflows for batch processing and production-level applications.

Over five days, you’ll embark on a comprehensive journey through Galaxy’s advanced capabilities:

Monday: Introduction & Workflow Development

Start with a welcome and icebreaker to foster collaboration, followed by a brief overview of Galaxy and its workflow features. Dive into hands-on workflow development, where you’ll learn to design clean, efficient workflows, customize them with parameters, and generate user-friendly workflow reports—combining theory with practical application.

Tuesday: Workflow FAIRification, Documentation, and Export

Begin with a recap of Day 1, then explore UseGalaxy.fr and its unique features. Learn to annotate workflows with metadata, apply best practices for FAIR compliance, and implement tests to ensure reliability. Publish your workflows to WorkflowHub and Dockstore via the IWC. Develop high-resolution workflow visualizations and create interactive tutorials using a “Choose Your Own Tutorial” approach. Finally, master workflow export by creating RO-Crates for reproducibility and submitting workflows to LifeMonitor for performance tracking.

Wednesday: Scaling Workflows & Galaxy Using Command-Line and API

Start with a recap and real-world examples of large-scale Galaxy projects. Learn to execute workflows from the command line using Planemo, automate batch processing with shell scripts, and analyze performance for efficiency. Discover how to scale Galaxy use with BioBlend, designing Python scripts for batch workflow execution and evaluating scalability. The day concludes with an introduction to the “Bring Your Own Work” session.

Thursday: Bring Your Own Work (BYOW)

Dedicate the day to applying your new skills to your own projects. With guidance from trainers, refine your workflows, troubleshoot challenges, and implement solutions using your personal data. Collaborate with peers, document your progress, and optimize your workflows to leave with actionable results for your research.

Friday: Storage, Data Management, Recap, and Closing

The final half-day begins with a recap of the week’s progress, followed by a session on “Bring Your Own Storage”, exploring how to integrate personal or institutional storage with Galaxy. Learn about managing databases in Galaxy and the IDC (Intergalactic Data Commission) effort for efficient data organization. The workshop concludes with a general recap, supplementary exercises, and feedback and closing remarks, ensuring you leave with a comprehensive understanding and resources for continued success.

This training will be conducted in French, while the materials (slides) will be in English.

Requirements

Prior knowledge and experience using Galaxy
Prior knowledge and experience using command line
Fluent in French (materials will be in English and discussions will happen in French)
Your own computer
Optional but encouraged: your own workflow and dataset for the Bring Your Own Work (BYOW) session. The workflow and the dataset must be shareable and non-sensitive (i.e., they must not contain any patient-related information or confidential data). The dataset size must be small.