The Galaxy Community Conference 2026 is coming to Clermont-Ferrand, France, and we are still welcoming sponsors!

GCC2026 will bring together a global audience of researchers, developers, educators, and open science leaders. Sponsoring the conference is an opportunity to:

• Reach an international scientific community
• Support real scientific impact
• Engage with a highly active, collaborative network

Learn more about sponsorship opportunities: https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2026/sponsors/

Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Galaxy Training Academy!
A free, global week of hands-on training in:
🧬 Proteomics | 🧩 Assembly | 🧫 Transcriptomics
🔬 Single cell | 🌍 Climate | 🤖 Machine learning + more
🗓 May 18–22

Learn more and register here: https://gxy.io/GTA2026-info

🌍 Help support global, open science.
The Galaxy Community Conference 2026 is coming to Clermont-Ferrand, France, and we are now welcoming sponsors.
GCC2026 will bring together a global audience of researchers, developers, educators, and open science leaders. Sponsoring the conference is an opportunity to:
• Reach an international scientific community
• Support real scientific impact
• Engage with a highly active, collaborative network

Learn more: https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2026/sponsors/

⏰ Don't forget! Early bird registration closes on February 18th. Join us in Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 22–24, 2026, with CoFest on June 25–26. If you’ve been planning to register, now is the time to lock in the reduced rate.

Learn more and register: https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2026/

🎉 Time to celebrate! The Galaxy Training Network just passed 500 tutorials — 501 and counting!

Every tutorial is:
✅ Free
✅ Openly accessible
✅ Community-built
✅ Reproducible

This represents years of collaboration from 500+ contributors across the globe, making data analysis more accessible to researchers everywhere.

Here’s to 500 more 💫

Be sure to check out this amazing team and the GTN, here: https://training.galaxyproject.org/

⏳ Reminder: Early bird registration for #GCC2026 closes February 28, 2026!

Join us in Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 22–24, followed by CoFest June 25–26.

Register now and secure the discounted rate: https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2026/

🧑‍🏫 Help shape the Galaxy Training Academy 2026!

We’re looking for trainers, co-trainers, track organizers, and Slack helpers for GTA2026 (May 18–22, 2026).

Interested in teaching or supporting learners in Galaxy?

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/e971zSYbjNR4R9Te9

🎓 Reminder: GCC2026 scholarships are open!

The JXTX Foundation and JJ Fund are offering scholarships to support graduate students and postdocs attending the Galaxy Community Conference 2026 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Awards include registration and travel support.

🗓️ Apply by March 15, 2026: https://jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-12-15-gcc

We’re excited to announce Rayan Chikhi (Institut Pasteur, France) as the Keynote Speaker at GCC2026.
In his keynote, Rayan will take us from genome assembly to petabase-scale exploration of public sequencing data, showing how large-scale indexing and k-mer–based approaches are opening the door to discoveries like new viruses and plastic-degrading enzymes.

Explore all Highlighted Talks at GCC2026: https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2026/highlights/