Wolfgang Maier

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Contributions

The following list includes only slides and tutorials where the individual or organisation has been added to the contributor list. This may not include the sum total of their contributions to the training materials (e.g. GTN css or design, tutorial datasets, workflow development, etc.) unless described by a news post.

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.

• SARS-CoV-2
• One Health
• Variant Analysis
• Epigenetics data analysis with Galaxy

Tutorials

• Contributing to the Galaxy Training Material / Creating a new tutorial 🧐
• Sequence analysis / Quality Control 🧐
• Sequence analysis / Removal of human reads from SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data ✍️ 🧐
• Sequence analysis / Primer and primer scheme design for pan-specific detection and sequencing of viral pathogens across genotypes ✍️ 🧐
• Sequence analysis / Quality and contamination control in bacterial isolate using Illumina MiSeq Data 🧐
• Epigenetics / CUT&RUN data analysis 📝 🧐
• Single Cell / Pre-processing of Single-Cell RNA Data ✍️
• Transcriptomics / Genome-wide alternative splicing analysis 🧐
• Transcriptomics / Reference-based RNA-Seq data analysis 🧐
• Using Galaxy and Managing your Data / Automating Galaxy workflows using the command line ✍️ 🧐
• Proteomics / MaxQuant and MSstats for the analysis of TMT data 🧐
• Assembly / Genome Assembly of a bacterial genome (MRSA) sequenced using Illumina MiSeq Data 🧐
• Assembly / Unicycler assembly of SARS-CoV-2 genome with preprocessing to remove human genome reads ✍️ 🧐
• Evolution / Identifying tuberculosis transmission links: from SNPs to transmission clusters 📝 🧐
• Evolution / Tree thinking for tuberculosis evolution and epidemiology 📝 🧐
• Galaxy Server administration / Data Libraries 🧐
• Galaxy Server administration / Galaxy Tool Management with Ephemeris 🧐
• Introduction to Galaxy Analyses / Galaxy Basics for genomics 🧐
• Microbiome / Pathogen detection from (direct Nanopore) sequencing data using Galaxy - Foodborne Edition 📝 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Mutation calling, viral genome reconstruction and lineage/clade assignment from SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data ✍️ 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Trio Analysis using Synthetic Datasets from RD-Connect GPAP ✍️ 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Deciphering Virus Populations - Single Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) and Specificities in Baculovirus Isolates 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Avian influenza viral strain analysis from gene segment sequencing data ✍️ 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Pox virus genome analysis from tiled-amplicon sequencing data ✍️ 🧐
• Variant Analysis / M. tuberculosis Variant Analysis 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Exome sequencing data analysis for diagnosing a genetic disease ✍️ 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Somatic Variant Discovery from WES Data Using Control-FREEC ✍️ 🧐
• Variant Analysis / Identification of somatic and germline variants from tumor and normal sample pairs ✍️ 🧐
• Variant Analysis / From NCBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) to Galaxy: SARS-CoV-2 variant analysis 📝
• Variant Analysis / Mapping and molecular identification of phenotype-causing mutations ✍️ 🧐
• Ecology / Data submission using ENA upload Tool 🧐
• Ecology / RAD-Seq de-novo data analysis 🧐
• Ecology / RAD-Seq Reference-based data analysis 🧐

Slides

• Transcriptomics / Identification of non-canonical ORFs and their potential biological function 🧐

FAQs

• How do I create an account on a public Galaxy instance?
• Is it possible to use alternative tools to those proposed in the tutorial?
• Pick the right Concatenate tool
• Adding a tag
• Creating a new file
• Importing data from a data library
• Importing data from remote files
• Renaming a dataset
• Créer un nouvel history
• Creating a new history
• Renaming a history
• Select multiple datasets
• Downloading the files from the NCBI server fails or takes too long.
• Importing a workflow using the search
• Renaming workflow outputs

Video Recordings

• Variant Analysis / Mutation calling, viral genome reconstruction and lineage/clade assignment from SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data 💬 🗣

Events

• Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy 🧑‍🏫
• Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy 🧑‍🏫
• Galaxy Training Academy 2025 🧑‍🏫
• Galaxy Training Academy 2024 🧑‍🏫

GitHub Activity

github Issues Reported

63 Merged Pull Requests

See all of the github Pull Requests and github Commits by Wolfgang Maier.

• Update CONTRIBUTORS.yaml
  template-and-tools
• Add new learning pathway for epigenetics
  template-and-tools
• Update to latest cutadapt interface in quality control
  transcriptomics
  sequence-analysis
• Add link to AIV reference history on Galaxy US
  variant-analysis
• BY-COVID track update
  template-and-tools

Reviewed 43 PRs

We love our community reviewing each other's work!

• Change from fastqc to falco in somatic-variant-discovery tutorial
  variant-analysis
• Change from FastQC to Falco in the tutorials quality-contamination-control and mrsa-illumina
  assembly
  sequence-analysis
• Add myself as contributor in ref-based-rad-seq tutorial
  ecology
• Change to latest MAFFT version in viral-primer-design tutorial
  sequence-analysis
• Change from fastqc to falco in somatic-variants tutorial
  variant-analysis

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