Intro to Galaxy for Bioinformatics

Lead trainer: Tristan Reynolds

(Melbourne Bioinformatics, The University of Melbourne)

Workshop Description:

This beginner’s tutorial will introduce the Galaxy Australia interface and tools, how to run a simple analysis and how to turn an analysis into a Galaxy Workflow (pipeline). Click on these links to learn about Galaxy Australia and available training material. The material covered in this workshop is based on the freely available at the links below:

• Galaxy Basics for everyone
• Creating, Editing and Importing Galaxy Workflows

Once you know how to use Galaxy you can upskill yourself using the Learning Pathways. Galaxy is an open source, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research. It allows users without programming experience to easily specify parameters and run individual tools as well as larger workflows. It also captures run information so that any user can repeat and understand a complete computational analysis. Finally, it allows users to share and publish analyses via the web.

Learning objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate and use the Galaxy platform
• Upload and interact with data on Galaxy
• Analyse data using Galaxy tools and view results
• Create and manage Galaxy Workflows

Eligibility:

This Free workshop is available to staff and students at The University if Melbourne and its affiliated institutes.

You must register for this event using an affiliated institutional email address or your registration may be cancelled.

Prerequisites and Requirements

This is an in person hands-on workshop and attendees must bring their own computers (laptop chargers also recommended). No software needs to be installed for this workshop and no programming experience is necessary. The following is required:

• Participants should register for a Galaxy Australia account using their institutional email address at least 3 business days prior to the workshop
• For University of Melbourne participants: If you do not receive an activation email within 2 hours of registering in your Inbox or Junk Email folder, the activation email may be held by the Mimecast Email Security and you will need to "release" the email for it to appear in your Inbox. You can login to the Mimecast Email Security Portal using your University of Melbourne email and check/release held emails here: https://uom.login-au.mimecast.com/u/login/?gta=portal#/login
• Access to internet via uniwireless or Eduroam
• Web browser (Firefox or Chrome recommended)

Access

If you require any further information, or have any access requirements in order to participate in this workshop, please contact us as soon as possible to discuss your requirements:

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bioinformatics-training@unimelb.edu.au