Introduction to Galaxy Analyses

Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and data and analysis persistence and publishing platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming experience.

You can view the tutorial materials in different languages by clicking the dropdown icon next to the slides (slides) and tutorial (tutorial) buttons below.

Material

Your First Analysis

These are the core, foundational topics for learning how to use Galaxy.

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A short introduction to Galaxy español plain text Toggle Dropdown Curated translations Automatic translations More Languages Plain text slides Toggle Dropdown Video Languages tutorial Toggle Dropdown Curated translations Automatic translations More Languages	plain text Toggle Dropdown Curated translations Automatic translations More Languages Plain text slides Toggle Dropdown Video Languages	tutorial Toggle Dropdown Curated translations Automatic translations More Languages
From peaks to genes tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages		tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages
Galaxy 101 tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages video video Tutorial (July 2021)		tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages	video video Tutorial (July 2021)
Galaxy 101 for everyone tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages video video Tutorial (May 2023)		tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages	video video Tutorial (May 2023)
Introduction to Galaxy plain text Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages Plain text slides	plain text Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages Plain text slides
Introduction to Genomics and Galaxy tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages video video Lecture & Tutorial (May 2023)		tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages	video video Lecture & Tutorial (May 2023)

Go a bit further

Explore the Galaxy a bit further after you've finished the basics.

Lesson	Slides	Hands-on	Recordings
Data Manipulation Olympics cyoa tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages		tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages
How to reproduce published Galaxy analyses tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages		tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages
NGS data logistics tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages video video Lecture & Tutorial (February 2021)		tutorial Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages	video video Lecture & Tutorial (February 2021)
Options for using Galaxy plain text Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages Plain text slides	plain text Toggle Dropdown Automatic translations More Languages Plain text slides

Other

Assorted Tutorials

Lesson	Slides	Hands-on	Recordings	Input dataset	Workflows

Galaxy instances

You can use a public Galaxy instance which has been tested for the availability of the used tools. They are listed along with the tutorials above.

You can also use the following Docker image for these tutorials:

docker run -p 8080:80 quay.io/galaxy/introduction-training

NOTE: Use the -d flag at the end of the command if you want to automatically download all the data-libraries into the container.

It will launch a flavored Galaxy instance available on http://localhost:8080. This instance will contain all the tools and workflows to follow the tutorials in this topic. Login as admin with password password to access everything.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions regarding this topic have been collected on a dedicated FAQ page . Common questions related to specific tutorials can be accessed from the tutorials themselves.