Thoughts on biology, genomics, and the ongoing threat to humanity from the bogus use of bioinformatics acronyms, by Keith Bradnam
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at a Galaxy training workshop this week. This workshop is organized and taught by the UC Davis Bioinformatics Core. More details about this workshop are available online. If you want to know what Galaxy is…well that's one of the 13 questions!
Image from flickr user astroporn
Today marks exactly 10 years since the first publication that describes the popular Galaxy platform:
The tremendous success of the Galaxy project can be summarized by the following two graphs (taken from the statistics page on the Galaxy Wiki):
New user registrations on Galaxy main site
Publications that reference or mention Galaxy
I'm sure that the Galaxy team have a more official date to use as their anniversary, but I'll mark the 10th year since their initial publication to say congratulations and 'Happy Birthday'! I hope that Galaxy can emerge unscathed from those difficult 'teenage years' that lie just around the corner!