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| author | Syme, Anna |
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| contents | Background Galaxy Australia is a hosted web-accessible service supporting accessible, reproducible, and transparent research. It is used by hundreds of life science researchers per month who access a large and growing list of over 1,500 bioinformatics tools. As Galaxy expands to serve increasingly diverse analytical domains, the sheer volume of available tools and workflows has heightened the challenge for a new user to navigate to the most relevant resources. Method National science initiatives are genomically characterising Australian-relevant species to describe our biodiversity, support conservation efforts, enhance biosecurity measures, and improve agricultural outcomes. To support researchers undertaking data-intensive genome assembly and annotation, we built a Galaxy Australia "Genomes Lab". This Lab is a curated workbench of relevant tools, workflows and how-to guides for genome assembly and annotation. It also provides links to connect researchers so that they can advance their research, and troubleshoot, in a collaborative way. Result At the core of this project was a well-defined UI/UX aim - to build a clean and minimal web presence to best display relevant analysis options to a focused user base. We did this using elements from the Bootstrap UI library, and limited content to three sections, each with a tabbed header. Rollout of this first Lab (https://genomes.usegalaxy.org.au) provides a useful template for efficient deployment of future focused Labs, to better connect the diverse resources of Galaxy Australia with specific research communities. Consultations are already underway to build the next Lab, the "Proteomics Lab". |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
| publisher | Zenodo |
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| spellingShingle | Building Galaxy Labs to advance life science research Syme, Anna Background Galaxy Australia is a hosted web-accessible service supporting accessible, reproducible, and transparent research. It is used by hundreds of life science researchers per month who access a large and growing list of over 1,500 bioinformatics tools. As Galaxy expands to serve increasingly diverse analytical domains, the sheer volume of available tools and workflows has heightened the challenge for a new user to navigate to the most relevant resources. Method National science initiatives are genomically characterising Australian-relevant species to describe our biodiversity, support conservation efforts, enhance biosecurity measures, and improve agricultural outcomes. To support researchers undertaking data-intensive genome assembly and annotation, we built a Galaxy Australia "Genomes Lab". This Lab is a curated workbench of relevant tools, workflows and how-to guides for genome assembly and annotation. It also provides links to connect researchers so that they can advance their research, and troubleshoot, in a collaborative way. Result At the core of this project was a well-defined UI/UX aim - to build a clean and minimal web presence to best display relevant analysis options to a focused user base. We did this using elements from the Bootstrap UI library, and limited content to three sections, each with a tabbed header. Rollout of this first Lab (https://genomes.usegalaxy.org.au) provides a useful template for efficient deployment of future focused Labs, to better connect the diverse resources of Galaxy Australia with specific research communities. Consultations are already underway to build the next Lab, the "Proteomics Lab". |
| title | Building Galaxy Labs to advance life science research |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15290048 |