Helena Rasche

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German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure Service, Training, Cooperations & Cloud Computing avatar de.NBIAvans Hogeschool avatar AvansUniversity of Freiburg avatar UFRErasmus Medical Center avatar ErasmusMCGallantries: Bridging Training Communities in Life Science, Environment and Health avatar GallantriesBeYond-COVID avatar BeYond-COVIDELIXIR-CONVERGE avatar ELIXIR-CONVERGE

Contributions

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11 Editorial Roles

This contributor has taken on additional responsibilities as an editor for the following topics. They are responsible for ensuring that the content is up to date, accurate, and follows GTN best practices.

541 Tutorials

147 Slides

153 FAQs

35 Video Recordings

5 Events



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Helena Rasche

Editorial board member for Galaxy Server administration, Foundations of Data Science, Genome Annotation, GMOD, Visualisation

541 Tutorials 153 FAQs 147 Slides 81 News 35 Videos Editorial Board 5 Events

GTN contributor since 2017-09

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News

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Galaxy Admin Training Success
Helena Rasche avatar
1 March 2021
The Galaxy Admins and the GTN instructors community has just run the largest-ever Galaxy Admin training event.
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New Feature: Automatic Slides-to-video conversion
Helena Rasche avatar Delphine Lariviere avatar
16 March 2021
This past year has been a struggle for all of us, but one task has become apparent as one of the most time consuming portions of course preparation during a pandemic: Video Production.
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Galaxy 21.01 released!
Helena Rasche avatar
17 March 2021
The Galaxy Team is pleased to announce the release of Galaxy 21.01! Workflows are the absolute ✨star✨, followed closely by the new Remote Files interface and much more.
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Report on the GTN Smörgåsbord event
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
17 March 2021
The GTN instructors community has just run the largest-ever Galaxy training event: “the GTN Smörgåsbord: A Global Galaxy Course”, co-organized with the Gallantries and the CINECA project and the Galaxy Training Network.
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Next GTN CoFest May 20, 2021
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar Bérénice Batut avatar Jennifer Hillman-Jackson avatar Delphine Lariviere avatar Anna Syme avatar Maria Doyle avatar
18 March 2021
Every 3 months we organise one day dedicated to the GTN community! Thursday, May 20th is the next GTN CoFest. We will be working on the training materials, have discussions with the global Galaxy traning community. Do you teach with Galaxy? Want to learn how to add your tutorial to the GTN? New to the community and just want to learn more? Everybody is welcome!
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New Feature: FAQs
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar Bérénice Batut avatar
24 March 2021
Snippets have received an major overhaul! Snippets/FAQs are small reusable bits of training, often answering a single question. In addition to the general Galaxy snippets, we now also support topic-level and tutorial-level FAQs. This will allow contributors to add common questions and answers to their tutorials, which not only can be included in the tutorial text itself, but are also used to autogenerate an FAQ page for the tutorial or topic listing all common questions (and answers).This will be useful both to participants following tutorials via self-study, and also to instructors preparing for a training event.
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New Tutorials: Genome assembly of a MRSA genome
Bazante Sanders avatar Miaomiao Zhou avatar Helena Rasche avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar
24 March 2021
Two new assembly tutorials have been added to the GTN! These tutorials walk you through the process of assembling MRSA strains from real-world datasets. MRSA stands for “Methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus, it is resistance to several antibiotics and is a common source of hospital-acquired infections and outbreaks. In this tutorial you will assess the quality of your data, perform an assembly and assess its quality, analyze your data for the presence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, and annotate the genome using Prokka and JBrowse.
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New Feature: Video Player
Helena Rasche avatar
6 April 2021
One of our contributors (@gtn:mtekman) found himself wanting to link to a specific time point in a video. We said “Wow, what a fantastic idea!” and then we implemented it. To support that we developed a very simple standalone video player page where you can view the GTN videos and browse through our catalog. It features the full transcript on the left, some suggested videos on the right, and a very standard <video> player.
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Hello in many languages
¿Hablas español?: The first curated tutorial in Spanish!
Wendi Bacon avatar Beatriz Serrano-Solano avatar Patricia Carvajal López avatar Alejandra Escobar-Zepeda avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
20 May 2021
¡El primer tutorial en español ya está disponible! Galaxy siempre ha tenido tutoriales traducidos automáticamente mediante Google-Translate, ahora nos estamos embarcando en un nuevo proyecto para estudiar la experiencia de aprendizaje con tutoriales en bioinformática traducidos por humanos. Nuestro objetivo es crear un paquete de tutoriales para el análisis de datos single-cell (célula única) en primera instancia, con el fin de estudiar su uso y utilidad en un taller para hablantes nativos de español. Agradecemos enormemente a las nuevas participantes @gtn:pclo y @gtn:ales-ibt (EMBL-EBI) así como a las miembros existentes de GTN @gtn:beatrizserrano (University of Freiburg), @gtn:shiltemann & @gtn:hexylena (Erasmus-MC), por su arduo trabajo en este proyecto de traducción y mantenimiento y, por supuesto, a @gtn:nomadscientist (The Open University/EBI) como líder de proyecto.
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New Feature: Easy Abbreviation
Helena Rasche avatar Erik Schill avatar Simon Bray avatar
25 May 2021
Thanks to the great tutorial developed by first time contributor @gtn:rikeshi and edited by @gtn:simonbray, we noticed that they defined a number of abbreviations and re-used those throughout their tutorial.
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Oh no, it changed! Quick, to the archive menu.
Helena Rasche avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar
1 June 2021
Did you ever start teaching a GTN tutorial, only to realise something changed recently? Oh no! A while ago the GTN created an Archive to address just this concern. On every tag, we’d build a copy of the website which we would place online and never touch again. This way we’d have permanent online copies so that if someone needed to go back to an older version of the GTN, they could.
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New Tutorial: Genome Annotation with Apollo
Anthony Bretaudeau avatar Helena Rasche avatar Nathan Dunn avatar Mateo Boudet avatar
4 June 2021
After two years, the Galaxy Genome Annotation team has finally finished their much awaited tutorial on doing Genome Annotation in Galaxy! Genome annotation is a time consuming and largely manual process as it requires the synthesis of a significant amount of varied information to make inferences, a process tha cannot be accomplished without an interactive editor. To support this, Apollo was deployed on UseGalaxy.eu. Over the past two years the GGA project has pushed forward apollo and tooling around it, and it finally culminates in this look at how to annotated your genomes in Apollo.
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New Tutorial: GitPod for contributing to the GTN
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
25 June 2021
Want to contribute to the GTN without installing anything on your own computer? GitPod provides an online workspace for editing the GTN tutorials, and showing a live preview of the GTN website with your changes. This tutorial shows you how to set up GitPod, how to use it to get a live preview of the GTN website, and how to save any changes you make back to your GitHub fork. This makes it easier than ever to contribute to the GTN!
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Accessibility Improvements
Helena Rasche avatar
27 July 2021
One of our community members suggested on twitter that we support alternative formats for accessing our JavaScript based slides, as this can be difficult for users using screen readers. We’ve now added support for “plain text slides”, where we render the slide decks as a single long document.
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New Feature: Automatic Jupyter Notebooks
Helena Rasche avatar
24 September 2021
As part of the work for the Gallantries Grant, we found ourselves wanting to teach a number of non-Galaxy tutorials on topics such as Python, Bash, SQL, and Git. Writing the tutorials was always a bit awkward as you would spend a lot of time writing code blocks that would be copied and pasted by students into a terminal. We thought we could do better than that, so we decided we would try to convert these to Jupyter Notebooks where the students could read the training materials and simultaneously execute the code cells directly there with the text! This worked fantastically and now we’ve built this feature into the GTN to make it easier to run all of the coding tutorials.
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New Topic: Data Science Survival Kit
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar Bérénice Batut avatar Anthony Bretaudeau avatar Yvan Le Bras avatar Fotis E. Psomopoulos avatar The Carpentries avatar
12 October 2021
As part of our work under the Gallantries Grant we are establishing a new topic within the GTN specifically focused on Data Science skills. This topic will include tutorials covering things such as:
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Attention Contributors: GTN Performance Enhancements
Helena Rasche avatar
12 October 2021
Are you one of our amazing GTN Contributors? Were you ever bothered by how slow it was to build the site locally? This is now fixed completely! We have replaced one of the slowest steps of the GTN’s build process and rewritten it ourselves to be more performant.
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New Feature: GTN API with OpenAPI 3 specification
Helena Rasche avatar
10 November 2021
As part of the work for the Gallantries Grant, we wanted to access some of the data from the GTN in a more accessible, API based way. We are working on building a Video Library based on the wild success of our Smörgåsbord and GCC2021 events and to support that we wanted to start pulling in data from the GTN to save course authors time and effort when designing their asynchronous courses.
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New Feature: GTN Video Library
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
23 November 2021
After runnning a number of virtual training events this year (e.g. Smörgåsbord, GCC2021), we now have a large collection of training videos around the GTN materials, created by this community.
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New Feature: GTN Video Library
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
23 November 2021
After runnning a number of virtual training events this year (e.g. Smörgåsbord, GCC2021), we now have a large collection of training videos around the GTN materials, created by this community.
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New FAQs: How does the GTN stay FAIR and Collaborative
Helena Rasche avatar
1 December 2021
The GTN does a lot of work to adhere to the best practices for FAIR training materials as set out in Garcia et al. 2020 and a lot of this work is behind-the-scenes or automatic from the infrastructure we provide, and we wanted to highlight that for educators and organisers who want to use GTN materials. This is one of the ways the GTN works to makes itself a fantastic platform training. Find out how contributing simple markdown tutorials can result in fantastically FAIR training.
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Support for annotating Funding Agencies
Helena Rasche avatar
14 December 2021
The Galaxy Training Network will now support annotating Funding Agencies on training materials. This is part of our ongoing effort to better annotate how people are contributing to the GTN and recognise all of the sources of contribution.
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Black text on a yellow background. Title card for Smörgåsbord 2 announcing that it will be 14-18 march in very large text, and the highlights of the course like Single Cell, Proteomics, SARS-CoV-2 and galaxy admin training. A bitly link is included which redirects to this page. There is a watterman butterfly map projection of the earth indicating it is a global event as well as an EU flag and GTN logo of supporters. @gxytraining and @Gallantries_EU's twitter handles are linked
GTN Smörgåsbord 2: Tapas Edition
Helena Rasche avatar
14 December 2021
This is an external post, please follow the link to read it.
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New Feature: Automatic RMarkdown
Helena Rasche avatar
28 January 2022
Further building on the work in the automatic Jupyter Notebook, we’ve now re-written the Jupyter export to be faster, and more importantly added support for R and RMarkdown! Check out an example material. Here we take the content of the tutorial, written like normal GTN markdown, and we automatically convert it to Jupyter Notebooks and now RMarkdown documents! Check out the documentation on how to setup your tutorials to support this.
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New Tutorial Feature: Choose Your Own Tutorial
Helena Rasche avatar
12 April 2022
It has been a long discussed feature within the GTN Tutorial Author Community: how can we provide trainees with choice in their tutorials, and how can we as trainers not duplicate large tutorials just to show a slightly different path at one point?
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GTN Metadata Schemas
Helena Rasche avatar
20 May 2022
Within the GTN we have had schemas for the various metadata we keep for a long time. It helps us automatically check community contributions to ensure they conform to all of the GTN standards, and will work correctly in our environment.
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Content of material available on the GTN and feedback from learners. (A) Evolution of number of topics, tutorials, and contributors over the months between 2017 and 2022. (B) Number and type of tutorials per topics available on the GTN on April 2022. The latest statistics are publicly available from https://training.galaxyproject.org/stats. (C) Type of supporting materials for tutorials per topics available on the GTN on April 2022. (D) Score of the embedded feedback in the tutorials per topics. Three questions are asked in the form: 'How much did you like this tutorial?' (from 1 (bad) to 5 (great)), 'What did you like?', 'What could be improved?'. The latest feedback results are publicly available from https://training.galaxyproject.org/feedback.
New GTN paper: "Galaxy Training: A powerful framework for teaching!"
Bérénice Batut avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
10 January 2023
Our new paper about the Galaxy Training Network has been published this week in Plos Computational Biology: “Galaxy Training: A powerful framework for teaching!”
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New GTN Feature Tag-based Topics enables new SARS-CoV-2 topic
Helena Rasche avatar Wolfgang Maier avatar
23 January 2023
The GTN has long struggled with the rigid hierarchy of a single level of classification: topics. All materials had to be organised into a single topic, even when their contents sometimes spanned multiple topics! We added subtopics a while back to help further organise these tutorials, but that still did not solve the issue of needing to collect multiple learn materials in a single location for people to access.
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New Feature: Prometheus Metrics endpoint
Helena Rasche avatar
24 January 2023
Prometheus is an increasingly popular monitoring solution whereby sites expose a /metrics endpoint, and then a central Prometheus server can scrape it for data which is then plotted or visualised or alerted upon. We at the GTN are now testing out a prometheus endpoint for our completely static site which we’ll use to expose some maybe useful statistics about the GTN that others can then scrape and display in ways that are useful for them.
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GTN Celebrates Black History Month
Helena Rasche avatar
2 February 2023
February marks Black History Month in the United States. This year we want to celebrate that by introducing a new theme (Click to Activate), and taking a look at one of the most famous Black figures in Science: Henrietta Lacks whose contribution to science went unremarked and unappreciated for decades while white scientists took credit for advancements built on her cell line.
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What are the most used tools in the GTN?
Helena Rasche avatar
8 February 2023
Did you ever wonder which was the number one most used tool in the GTN? There is a new page of Top Tools where we list all of the top tools in the GTN, and which tutorials use them. We guessed “upload1”, but it seems like not every author annotates that step explicitly in their tutorial, and of course it doesn’t appear in the workflows which we also scan to create this tool listing.
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New Feature: Trainer Directory! (Add yourself today!)
Helena Rasche avatar Lucille Delisle avatar
21 March 2023
Numerous other training groups keep “Trainer Directories” as a way to help students meet trainers in their area, especially for hosting workshops for their local community. There have been a handful of attempts at this in the past, both in galaxyproject/galaxy-maps and in a Google Map on the GTN homepage.
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New Feature: Learning Pathways!
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
13 April 2023
Introducing Learning Pathways in the GTN! Learning pathways are sets of tutorials curated for you by community experts to form a coherent set of lessons around a topic, building up knowledge step by step.
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New Feature: Click-to-run Workflows
Helena Rasche avatar
19 April 2023
The GTN has implemented “click to run” workflows! One click, will get you into Galaxy with a workflow imported and ready to run. If you are on either usegalaxy.org or usegalaxy.eu, we have implemented easy buttons which you can click that will direct you straight to your Galaxy server.
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New Feature: GTN Rdoc
Helena Rasche avatar
19 April 2023
The internal functions of the GTN have, in the past, not been very well documented. Now we have started the process of fully documenting the functions and modules available to GTN developers.
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New Feature: Persistent URLs (PURLs) / Shortlinks
Helena Rasche avatar
19 April 2023
The GTN has added persistent URL identifiers for our tutorials, slides, and FAQs. Using the gxy.io service, we have reserved GTN namespace for our persistent URLs. These work similarly to DOIs in that they will always point to a specific training material.
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New Feature: my.galaxy.training
Helena Rasche avatar
20 April 2023
The GTN has set up a very simple “redirection” service based on my.home-assistant.io which Helena discovered after reading some Home Assistant documentation and saw a really neat link which led to her own internal home assistant.
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BY-COVID and RO-Crate collaboration brings new topic: FAIR Data, Workflows & More
Simone Leo avatar Paul De Geest avatar Stian Soiland-Reyes avatar Luca Pireddu avatar Marco Enrico Piras avatar
11 May 2023
As part of the BY-COVID project, the RO-Crate team and BY-COVID members have brought several RO-Crate related tutorials into the Galaxy Training Network, under a brand new {FAIR} topic!
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GTN Celebrates Pride Month: Alan Hart & M. Tuberculosis
Helena Rasche avatar
1 June 2023
June is Pride Month in the US and countries around the world. We have automatically activated the new Progress Pride theme on the home page (Click to Activate) if you hadn’t already selected a theme.
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New Feature: Pan-Galactic Tool Search
Helena Rasche avatar
7 June 2023
Did you ever want to run a tool, but not know where it might be available? The GTN has you covered with the Pan-Galactic Tool Search that is now available.
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New Feature: GTN User Preferences
Helena Rasche avatar
20 July 2023
We have added a new “User Preferences” page for our GTN users! This gives you more control over both how the GTN looks, and works, for you.
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New Feature: GTN User Preferences
Helena Rasche avatar
20 July 2023
We have added a new “User Preferences” page for our GTN users! This gives you more control over both how the GTN looks, and works, for you.
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New Feature: Embeddable GTN Tutorial Lists and UseGalaxy Workflow List Widgets
Helena Rasche avatar
5 October 2023
We at the GTN strive to bring you the most fun and fancy features we can in a completely static site! Today we’re addressing the question of Wendi Bacon who needed a solution for keeping her single cell subdomain up-to-date with all the latest happenings in the Single Cell world.
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Update: Workflow List now searches WorkflowHub.eu, advanced query syntax
Helena Rasche avatar
20 November 2023
WorkflowHub
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GTN has left Twitter/X as of October
Helena Rasche avatar
21 November 2023
We did not formally announce it at the time, but the Galaxy Training Network has migrated from Twitter/X to Mastodon, as that platform no longer aligns with the Galaxy Project Code of Conduct nor our community values.
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Feedback: Easy slide recordings
Helena Rasche avatar
21 November 2023
I recently imported Friends Don’t Let Friends Make Bad Graphs, a fantastic and educational github repository showcasing some common visualisation mistakes, that was available under an open license, to the GTN. Then the GTN automatically made a video for me.
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Tutorial Feature: Easier launching of WorkflowHub & Dockstore Workflows
Helena Rasche avatar
12 December 2023
While most GTN tutorials include their associated workflow directly in the GTN, some may wish to write a tutorial about running workflows from WorkflowHub, e.g. leveraging the IWC workflow collection.
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GTN Helper Bots Connect the Galaxy
Mehmet Tekman avatar
20 December 2023
🤖💬 Bleep bloop! Good news everyone! We have deployed some bots to enable our Matrix regulars to better engage with the contributions and questions of our users on the non-Matrix side of the Galaxy-verse.
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GTN Helper Bots Connect the Galaxy
Mehmet Tekman avatar
20 December 2023
🤖💬 Bleep bloop! Good news everyone! We have deployed some bots to enable our Matrix regulars to better engage with the contributions and questions of our users on the non-Matrix side of the Galaxy-verse.
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Simplified GTN News submission via Google Form
Helena Rasche avatar
29 January 2024
Based on user feedback of the difficulties of the GTN news submission process we have significantly simplified and removed the need for manually editing a YAML file by providing a quick and easy Google Form
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Simplified GTN News submission via Google Form
Helena Rasche avatar
29 January 2024
Based on user feedback of the difficulties of the GTN news submission process we have significantly simplified and removed the need for manually editing a YAML file by providing a quick and easy Google Form
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GTN in Discourse
Helena Rasche avatar Jennifer Hillman-Jackson avatar Wendi Bacon avatar Martin Čech avatar
30 January 2024
Howdy teachers and support staff! We are exploring displaying GTN content directly in the Galaxy Help site, furthering the integration between the GTN and the Galaxy community infrastructure. When you paste a GTN Frequently Asked Questions URL into the Galaxy Discourse, it will now be rendered directly in Discourse!
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GTN in Discourse
Helena Rasche avatar Jennifer Hillman-Jackson avatar Wendi Bacon avatar Martin Čech avatar
30 January 2024
Howdy teachers and support staff! We are exploring displaying GTN content directly in the Galaxy Help site, furthering the integration between the GTN and the Galaxy community infrastructure. When you paste a GTN Frequently Asked Questions URL into the Galaxy Discourse, it will now be rendered directly in Discourse!
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🪐📲 Hosting Galaxy at the Edge: Directly in Your Pocket!
Mehmet Tekman avatar
31 January 2024
Hey Galaxy admins! Have you ever wanted to administer your own instance from the luxury of your pocket?
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GTN ❤️ GMOD
Helena Rasche avatar Anthony Bretaudeau avatar
29 February 2024
Building upon the work previously done for the SARS-Cov-2 Topic we have further expanded the ‘tag based topics’ to support a new GMOD topic.
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GTN ❤️ GMOD
Helena Rasche avatar Anthony Bretaudeau avatar
29 February 2024
Building upon the work previously done for the SARS-Cov-2 Topic we have further expanded the ‘tag based topics’ to support a new GMOD topic.
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Lost in a topic? Try a Learning Pathway!
Helena Rasche avatar Bérénice Batut avatar
4 March 2024
We know the GTN has a lot of learning materials (400 and counting!) which can make it quite difficult to figure out where to start in some topics.
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Lost in a topic? Try a Learning Pathway!
Helena Rasche avatar Bérénice Batut avatar
4 March 2024
We know the GTN has a lot of learning materials (400 and counting!) which can make it quite difficult to figure out where to start in some topics.
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Cool URLs Don't Change, GTN URLs don't either.
Helena Rasche avatar
18 March 2024
At the Galaxy Training Network we are really committed to ensuring our training materials are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. This means that we want to make sure that the URLs to our training materials are persistent and don’t change. The GTN wants you to be able to rely on our URLs once you’ve added them to a poster or training material, without having to worry about them breaking in the future.
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Cool URLs Don't Change, GTN URLs don't either.
Helena Rasche avatar
18 March 2024
At the Galaxy Training Network we are really committed to ensuring our training materials are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. This means that we want to make sure that the URLs to our training materials are persistent and don’t change. The GTN wants you to be able to rely on our URLs once you’ve added them to a poster or training material, without having to worry about them breaking in the future.
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Learn to use MINERVA Platform's COVID-19 Disease Map with Galaxy
Helena Rasche avatar Marek Ostaszewski avatar
28 March 2024
As part of the work of BeYond COVID, we have developed a new integration between the MINERVA Platform’s COVID-19 Disease Map and Galaxy! Datasets created within Galaxy can now be seamlessly visualized in the MINERVA Platform, allowing you to explore your data in the context of the COVID-19 Disease Map.
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A screenshot of the MINERVA Platform's COVID-19 Disease Map showing the PAMP signalling pathway submap in view in center as well as some genes in a table to the right.
Learn to use MINERVA Platform's COVID-19 Disease Map with Galaxy
Helena Rasche avatar Marek Ostaszewski avatar
28 March 2024
As part of the work of BeYond COVID, we have developed a new integration between the MINERVA Platform’s COVID-19 Disease Map and Galaxy! Datasets created within Galaxy can now be seamlessly visualized in the MINERVA Platform, allowing you to explore your data in the context of the COVID-19 Disease Map.
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Perfectly FAIR Training!
Helena Rasche avatar
13 May 2024
We are happy to report that over the years of our fruitful collaboration with ELIXIR TeSS, all GTN materials should receive a perfect score on the FAIR-Checker.
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Perfectly FAIR Training!
Helena Rasche avatar
13 May 2024
We are happy to report that over the years of our fruitful collaboration with ELIXIR TeSS, all GTN materials should receive a perfect score on the FAIR-Checker.
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Introducing GTN Event Pages
Saskia Hiltemann avatar
22 May 2024
Are you organizing a training event using GTN materials? You can now add your event directly to the GTN!
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Standards compliant™ training news via RSS/Atom
Helena Rasche avatar
4 June 2024
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Standards compliant™ training news via RSS/Atom
Helena Rasche avatar
4 June 2024
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400 tutorials
Celebrating the Milestone: 400 Tutorials on the Galaxy Training Network!
Bérénice Batut avatar Helena Rasche avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar
6 June 2024
The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) has reached an exciting milestone: our 400th tutorial! This achievement is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our community of educators, researchers, and developers over the last 9 years.
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Open Call for Trainers for the Galaxy Training Academy
Teresa Müller avatar
11 June 2024
We are happy to announce the Galaxy Training Academy 2024, a global online training event, where learners can get to know Galaxy and learn how to analyze data for various research topics.
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GTN Video Library 2.0: 107 hours of learning across 154 videos
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
14 June 2024
Many GTN tutorials already have recordings. These recordings were made by members of the community for a variety of (online) training events. Up until now, this video library were part of the Gallantries Project. We have now integrated this video library directly into the GTN, and made it even easier to add video recordings to GTN tutorials or slide decks! Just use a Google Form to submit your video recordings!
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Screenshot of the GTN Video Library showing a tutorial recording with a large youtube player and extensive metadata about who created the video (Natalie Kucher) and when, how long, etc.
GTN Video Library 2.0: 107 hours of learning across 154 videos
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
14 June 2024
Many GTN tutorials already have recordings. These recordings were made by members of the community for a variety of (online) training events. Up until now, this video library were part of the Gallantries Project. We have now integrated this video library directly into the GTN, and made it even easier to add video recordings to GTN tutorials or slide decks! Just use a Google Form to submit your video recordings!
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So many new features! GTN 2023-2024 Updates
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
9 July 2024
We recently presented the GTN at the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference. This presentation was a summary of the updates and new features that were added to the GTN in the past year.
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So many new features! GTN 2023-2024 Updates
Saskia Hiltemann avatar Helena Rasche avatar
9 July 2024
We recently presented the GTN at the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference. This presentation was a summary of the updates and new features that were added to the GTN in the past year.
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Simplifying GTN contribution with Google Forms
Helena Rasche avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar
17 July 2024
Since the last time we announced GTN news posting via Google Form, we’ve found that this has been an excellent fit for the community and decided to greatly expand the use of Google Forms for GTN contributions.
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A screenshot of the GTN Google Form for news contributions. The form is titled 'GTN News' and has fields for 'Title', with a screenshot of a galaxy single cell news post as the header image.
Simplifying GTN contribution with Google Forms
Helena Rasche avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar
17 July 2024
Since the last time we announced GTN news posting via Google Form, we’ve found that this has been an excellent fit for the community and decided to greatly expand the use of Google Forms for GTN contributions.
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Galaxy Administrator Time Burden and Technology Usage
Vlad Visan avatar
22 July 2024
Have you wondered how difficult Galaxy is to run? How much time people must spend to run Galaxy? In February 2024, we collected 9 responses from the Galaxy Small Scale Admin group. The questions cover various time burdens and technological choices. The report provides answers to prospective future admins’ most common questions.
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Credit where it's due: GTN Reviewers in the spotlight
Helena Rasche avatar Wendi Bacon avatar
2 December 2024
We would like to recognise and thank all of the reviewers who have contributed to the GTN tutorials; your efforts are greatly appreciated, and we are grateful for your contributions to the GTN community. Today, we are highlighting your efforts on every single learning material across the GTN.
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A screenshot of the GTN's short introduction to Galaxy tutorial. There are two authors and two editors, but now shown is a new reviewers with 13 individuals, some overlapping with editors and authors.
Credit where it's due: GTN Reviewers in the spotlight
Helena Rasche avatar Wendi Bacon avatar
2 December 2024
We would like to recognise and thank all of the reviewers who have contributed to the GTN tutorials; your efforts are greatly appreciated, and we are grateful for your contributions to the GTN community. Today, we are highlighting your efforts on every single learning material across the GTN.
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GTN's Gift for 2024
Wendi Bacon avatar Helena Rasche avatar
19 December 2024
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GTN is now integrated with WorkflowHub
Johan Gustafsson avatar Helena Rasche avatar Finn Bacall avatar Bert Droesbeke avatar Eli Chadwick avatar Armin Dadras avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar Björn Grüning avatar Frederik Coppens avatar Carole Goble avatar
2 September 2025
Thanks to a collaborative effort between the teams at Galaxy Training Network (GTN), WorkflowHub, and Australian BioCommons, GTN workflows are now registered automatically with WorkflowHub. The existing set of workflows can be viewed here: GTN on WorkflowHub. For every new tutorial that is added to the GTN, any workflows that it contains will now also be pushed to WorkflowHub.
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GTN is now integrated with WorkflowHub
Johan Gustafsson avatar Helena Rasche avatar Finn Bacall avatar Bert Droesbeke avatar Eli Chadwick avatar Armin Dadras avatar Saskia Hiltemann avatar Björn Grüning avatar Frederik Coppens avatar Carole Goble avatar
2 September 2025
Thanks to a collaborative effort between the teams at Galaxy Training Network (GTN), WorkflowHub, and Australian BioCommons, GTN workflows are now registered automatically with WorkflowHub. The existing set of workflows can be viewed here: GTN on WorkflowHub. For every new tutorial that is added to the GTN, any workflows that it contains will now also be pushed to WorkflowHub.
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