Session 1 – 10:30 – 12:00 PM

Grace Auditorium | Moderator: Sehyun Oh

Galaxy All-in-One Agent: A Unified Natural Language Interface for Cross-Galaxy Data Analysis

Junhao Qiu , Jeremy Goecks

Introducing GalaxyMCP: Integrating AI Assistants with Galaxy Through the Model Context Protocol

Dannon Baker , Junhao Qiu, Jeremy Goecks, Mike Schatz

Automated integration of R/Bioconductor tools into Galaxy

Jayadev Joshi , Fabio Cumbo, Daniel Blankenberg

User-Defined, Safe, and Rapidly Deployable Galaxy Tools with Embedded Type-Safe Editing

Marius van den Beek

Bringing Data to Life: Galaxy’s New Visualization Framework

Aysam Guerler , Ahmed Awan, Alireza Heidari, Bjoern Gruening, Dannon Baker, David Lopez, John Chilton, Marius van den Beek, Michelle Savage, Anton Nekrutenko, Michael C Schatz

Managing materials science workflows with Galaxy at STFC

Leandro Liborio , Subindev Devadasan, Patrick Austin, Milan Kumar, Meg Savage, Oliver Finlay, Adam Bennet, Archit Bhardwaj, Kirill Fedorov, Dan Symes, Chris Armstrong, Rajeev Pattathil

Language-agnostic strategies for genomic data representation in Bioconductor

Vincent J Carey

Streamlining the User Experience for Reproducible Image Analysis in Galaxy

Leonid Kostrykin , Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Riccardo Massei, Karl Rohr

Enabling Genomic Research at Scale with NHGRI AnVIL: A Cloud Platform for Genomic Data Analysis

Stephen L Mosher , Michael C Schatz, Jonathan Lawson, Robert Carroll

Session 2A – 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Bush Hall | Moderator: Jenny Drnevich

From Upload to Execution: A Unified Galaxy Workflow Run Interface

Ahmed H Awan , Dannon Baker, Marius van den Beek, John Chilton, Aysam Guerler, Alireza Heidari, David Lopez, Laila Los, Michelle Savage, Bjoern Gruening, Anton Nekrutenko, Michael C Schatz

More Usable and More Powerful Galaxy Dataset Collections

John Chilton , Marius van den Beek, Ahmed Awan

AI-augmented data analyses in Galaxy

Junhao Qiu , Jeremy Goecks

Benchmarking Quantum Machine Learning Models in Galaxy

Bryan Raubenolt , Akhil Mohan, Kahn Rhrissorrakrai, Aritra Bose, Filippo Utro, Laxmi Parida, Ela Plow, Daniel Blankenberg

Leveraging Deep Learning with torch in R for Next-Generation Epigenetic Clock Development

Jamie Park

The Galaxy-ML2 tool suite: Using Galaxy to promote best practices in machine learning for biomedical data science

Paulo Cilas Morais Lyra Junior , Junhao Qiu, Luke Sargent, Qiang Gu, Jeremy Goecks

NOVA: Leveraging Galaxy for Neutrons Scattering Data Analysis and Visualization

Gregory R Watson

Towards the automatic integration of tools in Galaxy: the anvi’o suite and a new AI-driven automation pipeline

Fabio Cumbo , Jayadev Joshi, Daniel Blankenberg

Dynamic meta-scheduling in Galaxy with TPV Broker for smarter workload distribution

Paul De Geest , Sanjay Srikakulam, Abdulrahman Azab, Tomáš Vondrák

One Million Heart Cells: Integrating Public Data on Galaxy to Explore How Cardiomyocytes Change in Atrial Fibrillation

Marisa J Loach , Daniel M Johnson, Wendi Bacon

gINTomics, a powerful Bioconductor package for multiomics data integration and visualization.

Angelo Velle , Francesco Patanè, Chiara Romualdi

Bioconductor-R-Shiny Applications on Galaxy

Pavankumar Videm , Paul Zierep, Charlotte Soneson, Federico Marini, Bjoern Gruening, Hans-Rudolf Hotz

Session 2B – 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Grace Auditorium | Moderator: Vincent Carey

Robust ancestry inference from challenging human molecular data with RAIDS

Pascal Belleau , Xintong Li, Astrid Deschênes, Laine Marrah, David A Tuveson, Alex Krasnitz

Meta-iPep: A metaimmunopeptidomics pipeline implemented within Galaxy platform to characterize HLA-bound microbial peptides for immunotherapy

Katherine T Do , Subina Mehta, Reid Wagner, Fengchao Yu, Alexey Nesvizhskii, Timothy J Griffin, Pratik D Jagtap

Analyzing allele-specific methylation using Oxford Nanopore long-read DNA sequencing

Kasper D Hansen

Public gene expression cancer signatures across bulk, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data with signifinder Bioconductor package

Stefania Pirrotta , Laura Masatti, Anna Bortolato, Anna Corrà, Fabiola Pedrini, Martina Aere, Giovanni Esposito, Paolo Martini, Davide Risso, Chiara Romualdi, Enrica Calura

Host cell signaling during viral infection network perturbation analysis

Pariksheet Nanda , Jason E Shoemaker

SEMplR: An R package for predicting the effects of genetic variation on transcription factor binding

Grace E Kenney , Rintsen N Sherpa, Alan P Boyle, Douglas H Phanstiel

Enhancing rare variant analysis in biobanks: whole-genome annotation using GDS files

Xiuwen Zheng , Raven Chen

Orthology Detection at the Scale of Modern Genomics

Aidan H Lakshman , Erik S Wright

Multiscale analysis of lung adenocarcinoma spatial transcriptomics data

Lambda Moses , Bianca Dumitrascu

Deciphering CLEC12A Negative Regulation of Neutrophil Activation by Network and Functional Enrichment Analyses

Pascal Belleau , Astrid Deschênes, Guillaume Paré, David Sykes, Michael Mansour, Matheus Jantsch, Fidan Demir, Ken McKleish, Robert Faure, Maria J Fernandes

Broadening Metagenomic Horizons in Galaxy: Introducing the HiFi-MAG Pipeline, New Profilers, and Insights from BioDIGS

Tyler Collins , Alex Ostrovsky, Michael Schatz

Visualizing and analyzing differential transcript usage

Beatriz Campillo , Michael Love

Session 3 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Grace Auditorium | Moderator: Lamda Moses

The Intergalactic Workflow Commission: Standardizing, Testing, and Distributing Reproducible Galaxy Workflows

Marius van den Beek

A standardized R/Bioconductor framework for integrative analysis of histopathological images with multi-omics data

Ilaria Billato , Marcel Ramos Perez, Sean Davis, Mohamed Omar, Vince J Carey, Hervé Pagès, Levi Waldron, Chiara Romualdi, Davide Risso, Sehyun Oh

Advancing digital pathology with Galaxy: Tools for histological imaging foundation models

Cameron Watson , Luke Sargent, Allison L Creason

Computational considerations for analysis of Visium HD: A Bioconductor user’s perspective

Nicholas J Eagles , Sarah E Maguire, Kelsey D Montgomery, Svitlana V Bach, Chunyu Liu, Brion Maher, Keri Martinowich, Stephanie Page, Kristen Maynard, Leonardo Collado-Torres

sosta: a framework to analyze anatomical structures from spatial omics data

Samuel Gunz , Mark D Robinson

Universally accessible interactive curation workflows for large genome assembly

Delphine Lariviere , Erick Duarte, Bonhwang Koo, Kirsty McCaffrey, Richard Burhans, Bjorn Grüning, Saim Momin, Patrik Smeds, Marco Sollitto, Marius van den Beek, Adam M Phillippy, Erich D Jarvis, Michael C Schatz, Anton Nekrutenko, Giulio Formenti

Session 4 – 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Grace Auditorium | Moderator: Mike Love

Empowering Bioinformatics in Africa through Bioconductor: Expanding Training and Community Engagement

Maria Doyle , Umar Ahmad, Zedias Chikwambi, Aedin Culhane, Laurent Gatto, Kozo Nishida, Charlotte Soneson, Trushar Shah

Building UseGalaxy Capability in Canada

Carol Gauthier , Charles Coulombe, Jonathan Laperle, Keith Suderman, John Davis, Nuwan Goonasekera, Enis Afgan, Pierre-Étienne Jacques

Mass Spectrometry-Centered Multi-Omics: Advancing Galaxy Training Materials for Integrated Analysis and Community Adoption

Subina Mehta , Katherine Do, Saskia Hiltemann, Reid Wagner, Björn Grüning, Helena Rasche, Pratik D Jagtap, Timothy J Griffin

Training and education in the cloud with the NHGRI AnVIL

Natalie Kucher , Michael C Schatz, Jonathan Lawson, Robert Carroll

Molecular ecology at the sertão - Using Galaxy to empower research in developing communities

Carolina O Santana , Pieter Spealman, Gabriel Perron

Democratising the Analysis of the Human Cell Atlas with Bioconductor

Stefano Mangiola

Session 5 – 10:30 – 12:00 PM

Grace Auditorium | Moderator: Scott Cain

plyxp: reimagining dplyr syntax for SummarizedExperiment objects

Justin T Landis , Michael I Love

Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor

Tuomas Borman , Leo Lahti

Inference with predicted data – what do we do after we have machine learned everything?

Stephen Salerno , Jiacheng Miao, Awan Afiaz, Kentaro Hoffman, Jesse Gronsbell, Jianhui Gao, David Cheng, Anna Neufeld, Qiongshi Lu, Tyler H McCormick, Jeffrey T Leek

Simple and Secure Credential Handling for Tools in Galaxy

Prsented by John Davis , Alireza Heidari, Arash Kadkhodaei, David Lopez, Bjoern Gruening

Bridging Earth System Sciences with Galaxy: Two Years of FAIR-EASE

Marie Jossé , Jérôme Detoc, Erwan Bodéré

Dissect mitochondrial activity by transcriptome data with mitology R package

Stefania Pirrotta , Massimo Bonora, Enrica Calura

Galaxy-E: Ecology oriented Galaxy initiative, a 2025 update!

Coline Royaux , Marie Jossé, Pauline Séguineau, Yvan Le Bras, Jérôme Detoc

Little errors at big scale: towards efficiency, consistency, and reliability of data in the Galaxy database

John Davis