A new streamlined Galaxy Australia interface
You may have already noticed a new streamlined interface when submitting your latest job to Galaxy Australia. If not, it’s time to check out the refreshed Galaxy Australia landing page!
Important functions in Galaxy Australia have been streamlined, including access to the tutorial library and support requests for tools and data. The comprehensive improvements to the user interface mean the landing page has updated news and events tables, and more accurate acknowledgement of Galaxy’s partnerships.
“These updates are a part of an ongoing phase to improve the user experience of Galaxy Australia. We have brought together a group of Galaxy experts, designers and developers to continue to push the envelope of what is possible with the service and ensure that it continues to provide the latest in life science analytics in the most user friendly manner - the key to Galaxy success as such an accessible and useful service.” Madeline Bassetti, Galaxy Australia’s UI/UX Designer
Galaxy Australia welcomes feedback as they move through this development, so if you’d like to share your thoughts on the new design, please contact help@genome.edu.au.
Galaxy functionality is also undergoing constant development by the international team, with updates announced regularly. The latest release of Galaxy 22.01 offered a wide range of improvements.
New Colour Selector: Do you use tools which require colour inputs, like Circos? You now have complete freedom of choice for your colour palette.
Improved File Uploads: A new upload method makes file uploads significantly smoother, and will be more tolerant of network failures and interruptions.
Improved File Export: The amazing new remote file source export allows you to export files from Galaxy to FTP, Dropbox, and other locations.
Beta History: Collection Improvements: The beta history (which will be the default history in the next release in mid 2022) has been updated to indicate whether collections are homogeneous or heterogeneous. This will save you time and difficulties if you mistakenly build a collection containing variability likely to cause your downstream analysis to fail.
Galaxy starts as a FastAPI application by default: Galaxy now supports interruption free restarts, allowing the Administrators to keep the service running whilst you keep analysing.
User Preferences can be encrypted in Galaxy Vault: Galaxy can now be configured to store secrets in an external vault, which is useful for secure handling and centralisation of secrets management.
Check out the Galaxy 22.01 announcement for an overview and short videos explaining the improvements, or read the full release notes for (a lot more) details and instructions for upgrading your Galaxy installation.