The ELIXIR Galaxy Community organizes a 4-days workshop at Roscoff (France) related to Galaxy tool integration and training.

During the first day, the attendees will learn about the integration of high-quality tools within Galaxy with their dependencies (Bioconda, Planemo) using the IUC best practice guidelines. They will also learn how to use Galaxy as a training tool and develop training material for the Galaxy Training Network.

The second half of the workshop will be dedicated to Hackathon sessions where attendees will be able to bring their own projects around tool integration and/or training material and develop them collaboratively, with the support of community experts.

This workshop is organized mostly for developers, computer scientists and bioinformaticians.

Program

Collaborative notes and on the fly information are added to an external Gdoc.

Requirements

• A general knowledge of Galaxy
• Knowledge and comfort with the Unix/Linux command line interface (tool integration)
• Comfort with a text editor (tool integration and training development)
• An interest in using Galaxy to teach/train people (training development)

Working environment: A normal Linux/Unix environment with a terminal will be used during the training sessions and hackathon.

For Windows users, we will provide a virtual machine.

Practical information

Venue

The event will take place at the Biological station of Roscoff. Founded in 1872, the Biological station is presently one of the leading marine laboratories in Europe. It is affiliated with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Sorbonne Université.

The meeting will happen in Hôtel de France, Room 3 (red point in the map). The lunch and accomodation will be at Gulf Stream, the restaurant and hotel (green point in the map) of the Station.

Some restaurants are also added to the map for the dinners.

Cost

The workshop participation is free of charge. The ELIXIR Galaxy Community and the IFB/ELIXIR-FR will cover the meeting costs (lunch and dinner)

Accomodation

Bed and breakfast type of accommodation has been pre-booked with the Gulf Stream (green point in the map), the Station Biologique de Roscoff Hotel. You will be accommodated in a single room with shower and toilet.

Travel expenses and lodging need to be covered by each participant individually.

Travel

Roscoff is a small town located on the northeast coast of Brittany: 16 miles from Morlaix, 37 miles from Brest, 131 miles from Rennes.

Roscoff can be reached

• by ferry from Plymouth (United Kingdom),
• by plane from Paris to Brest, then by taxi,
• by TGV (high speed train) from Paris (Montparnasse train station or Charles-de-Gaulle airport) to Morlaix, then by local train, bus or taxi.

To share car from the train station or the airport, please register there

Scientific coordinators and trainers

• Gildas Le Corguillé (ELIXIR-FR, IFB)

  Sorbonne Université/CNRS, ABiMS, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France

• Bérénice Batut (ELIXIR-DE, de.NBI)

  Freiburg Galaxy team, Backofen lab, University of Freiburg, Germany

• Anthony Bretaudeau (ELIXIR-FR, IFB)

  INRA, BIPAA/GenOuest, Rennes, France

• Björn Grüning (ELIXIR-DE, de.NBI)

  Freiburg Galaxy team, Backofen lab, University of Freiburg, Germany

• Loraine Guéguen (ELIXIR-FR, IFB)

  CNRS/Sorbonne Université, ABiMS, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France