Galaxy Australia to host next year's international Galaxy Community Conference
The Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) 2023 will come to Brisbane after years of campaigning by the Galaxy Australia team to bring this international event to our shores. The winning bid to host GCC2023 was announced overnight at GCC2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Galaxy Australia’s Science Lead and Head of Computational Biology at QCIF Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics, Dr Gareth Price is elated:
Being entrusted with hosting the international GCC conference is recognition of how important our part of the world is to the Galaxy community. It’s a great opportunity to forge stronger ties with our regional colleagues while showcasing Australia to our US and European peers.
GCC2023 will bring together hundreds of researchers, trainers, tool developers, software engineers, and computational infrastructure providers, from all over the world. This unique meeting of back end developers, service deployers and research users offers a range of ways to exchange information about using the Galaxy data integration and analysis platform for data intensive science.
This annual gathering of the Galaxy community includes training, talks, posters, demos, Birds of a Feather meetups, and many other opportunities for collaboration and networking. The Galaxy community is a friendly and welcoming bunch and this conference is always a fun way for delegates to share their work and learn from others working in Galaxy-related data-intensive science.
The international Galaxy community hopes that the first GCC in the southern hemisphere will see many Galaxy users from the Asia Pacific region travelling to the Brisbane conference. Galaxy Australia is confident that GCC2023 will be a wonderful opportunity to strengthen ties between the Galaxy communities found in places like New Zealand, India, Japan and Africa.
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