Overview

• This is a short introduction to the Galaxy user interface - the web page that you interact with.
• We will cover key tasks in Galaxy: uploading files, using tools, viewing histories, and running workflows.

Agenda

1. Overview
   1. Create an account on a Galaxy instance/server
   2. What does Galaxy look like?
2. Key Galaxy actions
   1. Name your current history
   2. Upload a file
   3. Use a tool
   4. View results
   5. Run another tool
   6. Re-run that tool with changed settings
   7. Share your history
   8. Convert your analysis history into a workflow
   9. Create a new history
   10. Look at multiple histories
   11. Run workflow in the new history
3. Conclusion

Create an account on a Galaxy instance/server

If you already have an account, skip to the next section!

In Galaxy, server and instance are often used interchangeably. These terms basically mean that different regions have different Galaxy servers/instances, with slightly different tool installations and appearances. If you don’t have a specific server/instance in mind, we recommend registering at one of the main public servers/instances, detailed below.

Tip: How do I create an account on a public Galaxy instance?

1. To create an account at any public Galaxy instance, choose your server from the available list of Galaxy Platforms.

   There are several UseGalaxy servers:

   • UseGalaxy.org (US)

   • UseGalaxy.eu (EU)

   • UseGalaxy.fr (FR)

   • UseGalaxy.org.au (AU)

2. Click on “Login or Register” in the masthead on the server.

   

3. On the login page, find the Register here link and click on it.

4. Fill in the the registration form, then click on Create.

   Your account should now get created, but will remain inactive until you verify the email address you provided in the registration form.

   

5. Check for a Confirmation Email in the email you used for account creation.

   Missing? Check your Trash and Spam folders.

6. Click on the Email confirmation link to fully activate your account.

   galaxy-info Delivery of the confimation email is blocked by your email provider or you mistyped the email address in the registration form?

   Please do not register again, but follow the instructions to change the email address registered with your account! The confirmation email will be resent to your new address once you have changed it.

   Trouble logging in later? Account email addresses and public names are caSe-sensiTive. Check your activation email for formats.

What does Galaxy look like?

Hands On: Log in to Galaxy

1. Open your favorite browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox as your browser, not Internet Explorer!)
2. Browse to your Galaxy instance
3. Log in or register

Comment: Different Galaxy servers

This is an image of Galaxy Australia, located at usegalaxy.org.au

The particular Galaxy server that you are using may look slightly different and have a different web address.

You can also find more possible Galaxy servers at the top of this tutorial in Available on these Galaxies

The Galaxy homepage is divided into four sections (panels):

• The Activity Bar on the left: This is where you will navigate to the resources in Galaxy (Tools, Workflows, Histories etc.)
• Currently active “Activity Panel” on the left: By default, the tool Tools activity will be active and its panel will be expanded
• Viewing panel in the middle: The main area for context for your analysis
• History of analysis and files on the right: Shows your “current” history; i.e.: Where any new files for your analysis will be stored

The first time you use Galaxy, there will be no files in your history panel.

Key Galaxy actions

Name your current history

Your “History” is in the panel at the right. It is a record of the actions you have taken.

Hands On: Name history

1. Go to the History panel (on the right)

2. Click galaxy-pencil (Edit) next to the history name (which by default is “Unnamed history”)

   

   Comment

   In some previous versions of Galaxy, you will need to click the history name to rename it as shown here:

3. Type in a new name, for example, “My Analysis”
4. Click Save

Comment: Renaming not an option?

If renaming does not work, it is possible you aren’t logged in, so try logging in to Galaxy first. Anonymous users are only permitted to have one history, and they cannot rename it.

Upload a file

The “Activity Bar” can be seen on the left-most part of the interface.

Hands On: Upload a file from URL

1. At the top of the Activity Bar, click the galaxy-upload Upload activity

   

   This brings up a box:

   

2. Click Paste/Fetch data

3. Paste in the address of a file:

   https://zenodo.org/record/582600/files/mutant_R1.fastq
   

4. Click Start
5. Click Close

Your uploaded file is now in your current history. When the file has uploaded to Galaxy, it will turn green.

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After this you will see your first history item (called a “dataset”) in Galaxy’s right panel. It will go through the gray (preparing/queued) and yellow (running) states to become green (success).

Details: Is this step taking a while?

Sometimes during courses, data upload gets a little slow. You can also import data through a history link.

1. Import history from: example input history

   Tip: Importing a history

   1. Open the link to the shared history
   2. Click on the Import this history button on the top left
   3. Enter a title for the new history
   4. Click on Copy History

2. Rename galaxy-pencil the the history to your name of choice.

What is this file?

Hands On: View the dataset content

1. Click the galaxy-eye (eye) icon next to the dataset name, to look at the file content

   

The contents of the file will be displayed in the central Galaxy panel. If the dataset is large, you will see a warning message which explains that only the first megabyte is shown.

This file contains DNA sequencing reads from a bacteria, in FASTQ format:

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Use a tool

Let’s look at the quality of the reads in this file.

Hands On: Use a tool

1. Type FastQC in the tools panel search box (top)

2. Click the FastQC ( Galaxy version 0.74+galaxy1) tool (it appears as FastQC Read Quality reports without the version number)

   The tool will be displayed in the central Galaxy panel.

3. Select the following parameters:
   • param-file “Raw read data from your current history”: the FASTQ dataset that we uploaded (should be already selected)
   • No change in the other parameters
4. Click Run Tool

This tool will run and two new output datasets will appear at the top of your history panel.

Tip: Using tutorial mode

Tools are frequently updated to new versions. Your Galaxy may have multiple versions of the same tool available. By default, you will be shown the latest version of the tool. This may NOT be the same tool used in the tutorial you are accessing. Furthermore, if you use a newer tool in one step, and try using an older tool in the next step… this may fail! To ensure you use the same tool versions of a given tutorial, use the Tutorial mode feature.

• Open your Galaxy server
• Click on the curriculum icon on the top menu, this will open the GTN inside Galaxy.
• Navigate to your tutorial
• Tool names in tutorials will be blue buttons that open the correct tool for you
• Note: this does not work for all tutorials (yet)
• You can click anywhere in the grey-ed out area outside of the tutorial box to return back to the Galaxy analytical interface

Warning: Not all browsers work!

• We’ve had some issues with Tutorial mode on Safari for Mac users.
• Try a different browser if you aren’t seeing the button.

View results

We will now look at the output dataset called FastQC on data 1: Webpage.

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• Note that Galaxy has given this dataset a name according to both the tool name (“FastQC”) and the input (“data 1”) that it used.
• The name “data 1” means the dataset number 1 in Galaxy’s current history (our FASTQ file).

Hands On: View results

• Once it’s green, click the galaxy-eye (eye) icon next to the “Webpage” output dataset.

  The information is displayed in the central panel

  

This tool has summarised information about all of the reads in our FASTQ file.

Question

1. What was the sequence length of reads in the input FASTQ file?
2. Do these reads have higher quality scores in the centre or at the ends?

Solution

1. 150 bp
2. In the center

Run another tool

Let’s run a tool to filter out lower-quality reads from our FASTQ file.

Hands On: Run another tool

1. Type Filter by quality in the tools panel search box (top)
2. Click the tool Filter by quality ( Galaxy version 1.0.2+galaxy2)
3. Set the following parameters:
   • param-file “Input FASTQ file”: our initial FASTQ dataset
   • “Quality cut-off value”: 35
   • “Percent of bases in sequence that must have quality equal to / higher than cut-off value”: 80
4. Click Run Tool

After the tool has run, its output dataset will appear at the top of your History panel.

• This dataset will be called “Filter by quality on data 1”.
• Remember that Galaxy has named this file according to the tool it used (“Filter by quality”) and the input dataset (“data 1”).
• The actual numbers in front of the datasets in the history are not important.

What are the results from this filtering tool?

We could click on the eye icon to view the contents of this output file, but it will not be very informative - we will just see a list of reads.

Hands On: Get metadata about a file

1. Click the dataset (around where its name is) in the History panel.

   This expands the information about the file. (By default all datasets are collapsed)

   

Question

How many reads have been discarded?

Solution

1786 low-quality reads were discarded

Re-run that tool with changed settings

We can now try to filter our input reads to an even higher standard, and see how this changes the resulting output (an exploratory analysis). We will change the filter settings and re-run the tool.

Hands On: Re-run the tool

1. Click the galaxy-refresh icon (Run Job Again) for the output dataset of Filter by quality tool

   

   This brings up the tool interface in the central panel with the parameters set to the values used previously to generate this dataset.

2. Change the settings to something even stricter

   For example, you might decide you want 80 percent of bases to have a quality of 36 or higher, instead of 35.

3. Click Run Tool

4. View the results: Click the output dataset name to expand the information

   Comment

   Take care not to click the galaxy-eye (eye) icon as this will display the contents of the file in the central Galaxy panel instead.

Question

How many reads were discarded under these new filtering conditions?

Solution

If you selected 80% of bases with 36 as quality cut-off, then 11517 reads (92%) should have been discarded, which indicates that we have gone too far with the filtering in this case.

You can re-run a tool many times with different settings. Each time you re-run the tool, its new output datasets will appear at the top of your current history.

Share your history

Let’s imagine that you had a problem in your analysis and you want to ask for help. The easiest way to ask for help is to share your history. Try and create a link for your history and share it with…yourself!

Tip: Sharing your History

Sharing your history allows others to import and access the datasets, parameters, and steps of your history.

Access the history sharing menu via the History Options dropdown (galaxy-history-options), and clicking “history-share Share or Publish”

1. Share via link
   • Open the History Options galaxy-history-options menu at the top of your history panel and select “history-share Share or Publish”
     • galaxy-toggle Make History accessible
     • A Share Link will appear that you give to others
   • Anybody who has this link can view and copy your history
2. Publish your history
   • galaxy-toggle Make History publicly available in Published Histories
   • Anybody on this Galaxy server will see your history listed under the Published Histories tab opened via the galaxy-histories-activity Histories activity
3. Share only with another user.
   • Enter an email address for the user you want to share with in the Please specify user email input below Share History with Individual Users
   • Your history will be shared only with this user.
4. Finding histories others have shared with me
   • Click on the galaxy-histories-activity Histories activity in the activity bar on the left
   • Click the Shared with me tab
   • Here you will see all the histories others have shared with you directly

Note: If you want to make changes to your history without affecting the shared version, make a copy by going to History Options galaxy-history-options icon in your history and clicking Copy this History

Convert your analysis history into a workflow

When you look carefully at your history, you can see that it contains all the steps of our analysis, from the beginning (at the bottom) to the end (on top). The history in Galaxy records details of every tool you run and preserves all parameter settings applied at each step. But when you need to analyze new data, it would be tedious to do each step one-by-one again. Wouldn’t it be nice to just convert this history into a workflow that we will be able to execute again and again?

Galaxy makes this very easy with the Extract workflow option. This means any time you want to build a workflow, you can just perform the steps once manually, and then convert it to a workflow, so that next time it will be a lot less work to do the same analysis.

Hands On: Extract workflow

1. Clean up your history: remove any failed (red) jobs from your history by clicking the galaxy-delete button.

   This will make the creation of the workflow easier.

2. Click galaxy-history-options (History options) at the top of your history panel and select Extract workflow.

   

   The central panel will show the content of the history in reverse order (oldest on top), and you will be able to choose which steps to include in the workflow.

   

3. Replace the Workflow name to something more descriptive, for example: QC and filtering.

4. Rename the workflow input in the box at the top of second column to: FASTQ reads

5. If there are any steps that shouldn’t be included in the workflow, you can uncheck them in the first column of boxes. In this case, uncheck the second Filter by quality tool at the bottom, where we used a too high quality cut-off.

6. Click the Create Workflow button near the top.

   You will get a message that the workflow was created.

In a minute we will see how to find the extracted workflow and how to use it.

Create a new history

Let’s create a new history.

Hands On: New history

1. Create a new history

   Tip: Creating a new history

   To create a new history simply click the new-history icon at the top of the history panel:

   

2. Rename your history, e.g. “Next Analysis”

   Tip: Renaming a history

   1. Click on galaxy-pencil (Edit) next to the history name (which by default is “Unnamed history”)
   2. Type the new name
   3. Click on Save
   4. To cancel renaming, click the galaxy-undo “Cancel” button

   If you do not have the galaxy-pencil (Edit) next to the history name (which can be the case if you are using an older version of Galaxy) do the following:

   1. Click on Unnamed history (or the current name of the history) (Click to rename history) at the top of your history panel
   2. Type the new name
   3. Press Enter

This new history does not have any datasets in it yet.

Look at multiple histories

Where is your first history, called “My Analysis”?

Hands On: View histories in History Multiview

One of the ways to view multiple histories at once in Galaxy is through the History Multiview

1. There are multiple ways to get to the multview:
   • Click the galaxy-multihistory History Multiview activity in the activity bar
   • Or, click galaxy-history-options (History options) and then click the galaxy-columns Show Histories side-by-side option

   A new page will appear with your histories displayed side-by-side here.

2. Copy a dataset into your new history
   1. Click the FASTQ dataset in “My Analysis” history
   2. Drag it into the “Next Analysis” history

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   This makes a copy of the dataset in the new history (without actually using additional disk space).

3. Click the Galaxy logo (Home) at the top-left (or Analyze Data on older versions of Galaxy) in the top panel to go back to your analysis window

Your main Galaxy window will now show “Next Analysis” as the current history, and it will have one dataset in it.

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This is not the only way to view your histories in Galaxy:

1. An exhaustive list (table) of all your histories is available in the My Histories tab in the Histories List accessible via clicking the galaxy-histories-activity Histories activity

2. You can quickly switch to another history by clicking the switch-histories Switch to history button next to galaxy-history-options History options:

   Tip: Switching to an existing history

   To switch to an existing history simply click the switch-histories icon at the top of the history panel. This opens a list of histories existing in a given Galaxy account in the middle part of the interface.

   

Here is a tutorial on Understanding Galaxy history system

Run workflow in the new history

Now that we have built our workflow, let’s use it to re-create our small analysis in a single step. The same workflow could also be used on some new FASTQ data to quickly repeat the same analysis on different inputs.

Hands On: Run workflow

1. Click the galaxy-workflows-activity Workflows activity in the activity bar.

   Here you have a list of all your workflows (the My Workflows tab is active by default).

   Your newly created workflow should be listed at the top:

   

   You can see all available actions for the workflow on the workflow card, e.g. edit, copy, rename, share etc. Any other options (e.g.: delete, export etc.) are available by clicking the galaxy-dropdown Workflow actions button on the top right of the card.

2. Click the workflow-run (Run workflow) button on the bottom right of the workflow card.

   The central panel will change to allow you to configure and launch the workflow.

   

3. Check that the “FASTQ reads” input is set to the FASTQ dataset we have copied to the new history.

   In this page we could change any parameter for the tools composing the workflow as we would do when running them one by one.

4. Click the Run Workflow button at the top-right of the screen.

   You should see a message that the workflow was successfully invoked. Then jobs will start to run and datasets appear in your “Next Analysis” history, replicating the steps of your previous history.

Conclusion

Well done! You have completed the short introduction to Galaxy, where you named the history, uploaded a file, used a tool, viewed results and run a workflow. Additional tutorials are available for a more in-depth introduction to Galaxy’s features.

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Key points

• The Galaxy interface has an activity bar on the left, a tool (or other activated) panel next to it (if expanded), viewing pane in the middle, and a history of your data analysis on the right.

• You can create a new history for each analysis. All your histories are saved.

• To get data into Galaxy, you can upload a file by pasting in a web address. There are other ways to get data into Galaxy (not covered in this tutorial): you can upload a file from your computer, and you can import an entire history.

• Choose a tool and change any settings for your analysis.

• Run the tool. The output files will be saved at the top of your history.

• View the output files by clicking the eye icon.

• View all your histories and move files between them. Switch to a different history.

• Log out of your Galaxy server. When you log back in (to the same server), your histories will all be there.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Citing this Tutorial

1. Anna Syme, Nicola Soranzo, A short introduction to Galaxy (Galaxy Training Materials). https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/introduction/tutorials/galaxy-intro-short/tutorial.html Online; accessed TODAY
2. Hiltemann, Saskia, Rasche, Helena et al., 2023 Galaxy Training: A Powerful Framework for Teaching! PLOS Computational Biology 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010752
3. Batut et al., 2018 Community-Driven Data Analysis Training for Biology Cell Systems 10.1016/j.cels.2018.05.012

BibTeX

@misc{introduction-galaxy-intro-short,
author = "Anna Syme and Nicola Soranzo",
	title = "A short introduction to Galaxy (Galaxy Training Materials)",
	year = "",
	month = "",
	day = "",
	url = "\url{https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/introduction/tutorials/galaxy-intro-short/tutorial.html}",
	note = "[Online; accessed TODAY]"
}
@article{Hiltemann_2023,
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010752},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1010752},
	year = 2023,
	month = {jan},
	publisher = {Public Library of Science ({PLoS})},
	volume = {19},
	number = {1},
	pages = {e1010752},
	author = {Saskia Hiltemann and Helena Rasche and Simon Gladman and Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Delphine Larivi{\`{e}}re and Daniel Blankenberg and Pratik D. Jagtap and Thomas Wollmann and Anthony Bretaudeau and Nadia Gou{\'{e}} and Timothy J. Griffin and Coline Royaux and Yvan Le Bras and Subina Mehta and Anna Syme and Frederik Coppens and Bert Droesbeke and Nicola Soranzo and Wendi Bacon and Fotis Psomopoulos and Crist{\'{o}}bal Gallardo-Alba and John Davis and Melanie Christine Föll and Matthias Fahrner and Maria A. Doyle and Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Anne Claire Fouilloux and Peter van Heusden and Wolfgang Maier and Dave Clements and Florian Heyl and Björn Grüning and B{\'{e}}r{\'{e}}nice Batut and},
	editor = {Francis Ouellette},
	title = {Galaxy Training: A powerful framework for teaching!},
	journal = {PLoS Comput Biol}
}

                   

Funding

These individuals or organisations provided funding support for the development of this resource

Australian BioCommons

ELIXIR Europe

UFR

Galaxy Administrators: Install the missing tools

You can use Ephemeris's shed-tools install command to install the tools used in this tutorial.

shed-tools install [-g GALAXY] [-a API_KEY] -t <(curl https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/api/topics/introduction/tutorials/galaxy-intro-short/tutorial.json | jq .admin_install_yaml -r)

Alternatively you can copy and paste the following YAML

---
install_tool_dependencies: true
install_repository_dependencies: true
install_resolver_dependencies: true
tools:
- name: fastq_quality_filter
  owner: devteam
  revisions: 43a7370aa010
  tool_panel_section_label: FASTA/FASTQ
  tool_shed_url: https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/
- name: fastq_quality_filter
  owner: devteam
  revisions: b1e332a385f1
  tool_panel_section_label: FASTA/FASTQ
  tool_shed_url: https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/
- name: fastqc
  owner: devteam
  revisions: 9da02be9c6cc
  tool_panel_section_label: FASTA/FASTQ
  tool_shed_url: https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/
- name: fastqc
  owner: devteam
  revisions: 2c64fded1286
  tool_panel_section_label: FASTA/FASTQ
  tool_shed_url: https://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/

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July 2025

• 5 stars: Liked: It was very concise and easy to follow and to perform. Everything is well explained, I really enjoyed it! Disliked: So far, I do not have any suggestions, this is just the beginning of the Galaxy jurney for me, so far so good!
• 5 stars: Liked: The directions are easy to follow. Disliked: I think the font colors of the bold words can be changed to a brighter color.
• 4 stars: Liked: Detailed explanations of exactly what to change and where to find it. Disliked: Under Extract Workflow, step 4, it's not clear where to rename the workflow input, or even what is the workflow input. On the left (col 1) it says "Data Fetch This tool cannot be used in workflows" and on the right it says "1 mutant_R1.fastq" with a check. and "Treat as input dataset mutant_R1.fastq". A clearer explanation would be good. I couldn't change the filter by quality values when running the workflow? If I should be able to do that, show me how; if not, explain why not.

June 2025

• 5 stars: Liked: Its amazing, clear steps, easy to follow, incredible user interface - exited for the other tutorials Disliked: no complaints from my side
• 5 stars: Liked: The instruction is clear and very well organized.
• 5 stars: Liked: l liked
• 5 stars: Liked: I like the pictures and obvious instructions Disliked: I missed some information about cut-off values and percentage of sequence (what is the common setting)
• 5 stars: Liked: The step-by-step instructions were simple and clear and made effective with screen shots.
• 5 stars: Liked: Interactive and i can easily understand the function of the tools and what we need to evaluate from our raw fastq data. Disliked: So far so good
• 5 stars: Liked: the pictures with labels helped a lot. Disliked: Tutorial for other features of the Galaxy as well
• 5 stars: Liked: Really easy to follow, the explanations were high in detail Disliked: maybe some more comments about the Phred score and the metrics in FASTQC output
• 5 stars: Liked: Easy to follow Disliked: i whould like to have an easy way to have the tutorial in spanish, i did not see how to switch languages

May 2025

• 5 stars: Liked: Instructive step-by-step guide with visual help
• 5 stars: Liked: Every part of the tutorial. Nicely explained Disliked: I think more picture or video based explanation is required for each step. And also how to interpret the results.
• 5 stars: Liked: The instructional materials are very easy
• 5 stars: Liked: ease of use Disliked: server strength and speed
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• 3 stars: Liked: I quite like it Disliked: You should include pictures for each step, or better yet, make a video as well.
• 5 stars: Liked: It's a simple explanation, easy to understand the basic concepts
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• 4 stars: Liked: The easy explainations and follow through Disliked: Nothing
• 5 stars: Liked: This tutorial is about Fastqc a tool i will need to analyze my results.
• 5 stars: Liked: Clear instructions on what to do Disliked: It is unclear what each of these tools does, or what type of data I can use in this tool
• 5 stars: Liked: I really liked the course's simplicity and didactic approach. Beyond teaching the platform basics, it also covers how to perform quality filtering using FastQC. Disliked: Nothing
• 5 stars: Liked: method of presenting information is helpful and effective
• 5 stars: Liked: All the content, the information, the tips, examples. Disliked: Nothing for this tutorial

April 2025

• 5 stars: Liked: Hands-on and easy to follow.
• 5 stars: Liked: Convenience of all tools and the use of histories for producing workflows
• 5 stars: Liked: How nicely is every step explained Disliked: the responsive behavior (if I slipt screens sometimes i can't read the tutorial)
• 5 stars: Liked: Easy to follow.
• 2 stars: Disliked: I did not find information about uploading files for HPLC, this is focused in just one kind of files that does not apply for all.
• 4 stars: Liked: the tutorial animation Disliked: more clear direction on "Rename the workflow input in the box at the top of second column to: FASTQ reads"
• 5 stars: Liked: Easy to follow Disliked: introduction to Workflow editing
• 5 stars: Liked: I liked how it explained that you can create workflows by trying it first and saving them as part of the workflow directly if it works.
• 5 stars: Liked: It's well constructed and easy to begginers to understand

March 2025

• 5 stars: Liked: Very well explained Disliked: Show short videos instead of images(??)
• 5 stars: Liked: The screenshots were helpful guides. the exercises and their answers were also great to confirm the processes were being followed properly Disliked: It might be helpful if the tutorial could be opened in a separate window such that one doesn't have to minimise the tutorial to practice on the main Galaxy web page
• 5 stars: Liked: It was easy to follow
• 4 stars: Liked: Easy to follow
• 5 stars: Liked: well explained
• 4 stars: Liked: it was easy to understand with pictures of what the screen would look like in each step. i also liked the fact that i could finish this in 90 minutes at my own pace and did not feel overloaded with computer based work as i am a mol bio student. thank you Disliked: the background is really boring. sorry :P
• 5 stars: Liked: the steps are easy to follow, also give users the clarity of the features Disliked: More in the ways of data uploading
• 3 stars: Liked: x Disliked: although I knew the concept and skills written in this website, I do not think that I can run the whole task that is provided in the prac class :( this website is useful; however, it is not enough for a new student to get 100% familiar with this new tool, because there is no teacher in the practical class, I do not think that as a new student who is first time to access to molecular biology or bioinformatics can run the whole thing only by him/herself, or even, by the concepts that this website mentioned only. I really hope that in not only practical class but tutorial or lecture that teacher can provide us with more detail concepts, since not all of the students are smart :(

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• 5 stars: Liked: organized way Disliked: a liitle more description in steps
• 4 stars: Liked: Conciseness Disliked: Make the interface mroe engaging?
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• 5 stars: Liked: staring anaylsis is good Disliked: No need to improve
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• 5 stars: Liked: It wasn't too long, and I twas very clear
• 5 stars: Liked: visual explanation and simple language. Disliked: all are good for me.
• 4 stars: Liked: The fact that you were encouraged to do the steps alongside the tutorial were very helpful. I copied the dataset and went through the process with it.

January 2025

• 5 stars: Liked: Useful step by step guide. Steps were easy to follow, & made getting through the tutorial easy &enjoyable Disliked: The one instance that tripped me up was being instructed to click the home button to return to data analysis, which isnt present at the top bar on the US web page. Instead i simply clicked the Galaxy logo in the top left.
• 5 stars: Liked: The tutorial is very easy to follow.
• 5 stars: Liked: Easy to understand, providing all basic and fundamental information
• 5 stars: Liked: Clarity and screenshots
• 5 stars: Liked: step by step education...

December 2024

• 4 stars: Liked: i liked the idea of being able to access dna sequence data easily
• 5 stars: Liked: sencillez Disliked: estaría genial incluir videotutoriales
• 5 stars: Liked: It was concise and clear Disliked: Maybe some more screenshots for clarification
• 4 stars: Liked: Easy to follow
• 3 stars: Liked: It was usefull and clear! thanks Disliked: More excerises
• 5 stars: Liked: The instructions were very clear and a lot of useful information was given. I feel like I learned a lot in a short period. Disliked: Maybe update certain things for example: to 'run the tool' it said in the tutorial to click on 'execute', but it didn't say that on my screen so I was searching for a little while until I realized I just had to press 'run the tool'. It's a small change, but it could help make some things more clear for first time users.
• 5 stars: Liked: i like it 'cause its like "Galaxy for dummies" Disliked: for all of the tutorials you guys can use a "next lesson" button. its a lil confusing to what to learn next
• 3 stars: Liked: I am interested Disliked: any thing i noticed

November 2024

• 5 stars: Liked: All topics under this session Disliked: Nothing! All points adressed are very informative
• 5 stars: Liked: The images, organization and teaching. Disliked: For me, it's already great. I was able to clearly understand the content.
• 5 stars: Liked: very clear and easy to follow
• 5 stars: Liked: No topic was left without a proper closure. Everything was explained to the utmost detail and considering common pitfalls user journeys may have. Disliked: I'd like to have the chance to answer the questions before watching the right responses. That way, I will be able to actively check whether or not I'm understanding not only the tools but also the concepts and tasks behind them.

October 2024

• 5 stars: Liked: Very clear and up to date links and screen captures
• 5 stars: Liked: Easy to play Disliked: Add different languages
• 5 stars: Liked: level of detail and thorough instructions
• 4 stars: Liked: Practical exercizes in parallel with explanaition Disliked: Maybe having this step by step exercizes inside the Galaxy web page
• 5 stars: Liked: simple explanation to the website
• 5 stars: Liked: The interface was galaxy is very friendly Disliked: nil
• 5 stars: Liked: It was short and precise.
• 5 stars: Liked: Precise work description Disliked: Maybe upload some datasets for people learning from beginning, but I found them at different tutorial (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/galaxy-interface/tutorials/collections/tutorial.html#tip-upload-fastqsanger-datasets-via-links)
• 5 stars: Liked: Step by step instructions that are easy to follow!!
• 5 stars: Liked: Simplicity and easy to follow diagrams
• 5 stars: Liked: Nicely represented

September 2024

• 5 stars: Liked: Very clear and easy to follow
• 5 stars: Liked: Clear and simple. Disliked: I would like to learn where to look for details regarding the function of each tool.
• 5 stars: Liked: all of it
• 5 stars: Liked: I enjoyed the layout overall with the helpful visuals added to make sure you are completing the correct action, overall great training!
• 5 stars: Liked: Everything was so clear and easy to understand
• 5 stars: Liked: Really fast and nicely made
• 5 stars: Liked: everything, however i need to say it was challenging. Disliked: need a bit more time for activities, for people who struggling with it tools.
• 5 stars: Liked: Introduction to Galaxy analysis software. Disliked: N/A.
• 2 stars: Liked: That there were screenshots that visually aided the steps and allowed for better comprehension of the method steps. Disliked: More precise language within steps would be nice. For instance instead of saying copy a file, saying to copy the link of the file below when uploading would be more accurate as the person would then be able to understand to copy THAT file, instead of wandering what file to upload. Additionally, the other word to improve would be to replace the word "execute" with "run tool" because there is no "execute" button to run the tool, only the "run tool" button which does the same thing.
• 5 stars: Liked: I managed to do all the activities, I feel I can do. Disliked: Personally, the opportunity to continue from the basic to the advanced.
• 5 stars: Liked: Picture window Disliked: More pictures and motion graphics
• 5 stars: Liked: Easy to follow
• 4 stars: Liked: User friendly, informative Disliked: Smaller screen graphics so it is easily to view entire set of instructions for each step.
• 4 stars: Liked: A good level for someone who is not comfortable with using software packages Disliked: A summary of key buttons used in the tutorial for quick reference that can be printed would be useful
• 5 stars: Liked: proper instructions, easy to follow, detailed explannation
• 5 stars: Liked: The layout and the defined tutorial were very understanding
• 5 stars: Liked: The style of your tutorial

August 2024

• 5 stars: Liked: It was easy to follow.
• 5 stars: Liked: Ive used this server before, but strangely a year on, I understand it much better. Disliked: some of the tabs, are now different, updating these on this tutorial would make it easier, but by trial and error easy to figure out.
• 5 stars: Liked: As a Bioinformatician I like this website to input the Data in a upload file. Disliked: I improve new thinks by read this tutorial.
• 5 stars: Disliked: I didn't like how you have to swap tabs so much.
• 5 stars: Liked: lo interactivo de sus tutoriales
• 5 stars: Liked: It's complete and easy to understand.
• 5 stars: Liked: it was hands on and i learned a lot.
• 5 stars: Liked: easy
• 5 stars: Liked: How I got to use the tools myself and mess around with the parameters if I wanted
• 5 stars: Liked: Very understandable and easy to follow Disliked: everything was great
• 3 stars: Liked: logical and clear structure
• 5 stars: Liked: easy to follow

July 2024

• 5 stars: Liked: clear and straight forward instructions