Welcome to Galaxy for Earth System and environment

Galaxy for Earth System and environment was implemented within the project Fair-Ease. It’s a virtual platform to process, analyse and visualize Earth System, Environment and Biodiversity data. It is based on the Galaxy framework, which guarantees simple access, easy extension, flexible adaption to personal and security needs, and sophisticated analyses independent of command-line knowledge.

Content

1. Welcome to Galaxy for Earth System and environment
2. Get started
3. Training
4. Tools
5. Workflows
6. References

Get started

Are you new to Galaxy for Earth System sciences, or returning after a long time, and looking for help to get started? Take a guided tour through a detailed tutorial on the Galaxy Training Network.

Training

We are working in close collaboration with the Galaxy Training Network (GTN) to develop training materials of data analyses based on Galaxy. If you want to know more about the GTN or how to become part of the Galaxy community, check the videos below!

Training material

All relevant materials for Earth System, Environment and Biodiversity data analysis will be available within the GTN. You can search for them within the GTN by writing earth-system in the search bar or directly acces our full set of tutorials. A sample of the different tutorials that you can find below but many more are available:

• Welcome and introduction to Galaxy
• How to study Ocean’s variables
• Analyse Ocean data (from Argo)
• How to use QGIS
• How to study atmospheric volcanic data
• Get access to vegetation indices
• Study Marine biodiversity
• Learn in the Marine Omics domain to identify biosynthetic gene clusters

Tools

Multiple tools on Earth System, Environment and Biodiversity data analysis will be available in this custom Galaxy instance:

• General tools
  • QGIS
  • HDFviewer
  • Holoviz
• Coastal Water Dynamics tools
  • Ocean Data viewer ODV
  • DIVAnd
  • Source
• Bio-GeoChemical tools
  • Scoop Argo
• Marine omics tools
• Earth critical zone tools on land degradation
• Volcano tools

Workflows

To orchestrate tools and help users with their analyses, several workflows will be available. They formally orchestrate tools in a defined order and with defined parameters, but they are customizable (tools, order, parameters).

References

Our Data Policy

Registered Users	Unregistered Users	FTP Data	GDPR Compliance
User data on UseGalaxy.eu (i.e. datasets, histories) will be available as long as they are not deleted by the user. Once marked as deleted the datasets will be permanently removed within 14 days. If the user "purges" the dataset in the Galaxy, it will be removed immediately, permanently. An extended quota can be requested for a limited time period in special cases.	Processed data will only be accessible during one browser session, using a cookie to identify your data. This cookie is not used for any other purposes (e.g. tracking or analytics). If UseGalaxy.eu service is not accessed for 90 days, those datasets will be permanently deleted.	Any user data uploaded to our FTP server should be imported into Galaxy as soon as possible. Data left in FTP folders for more than 3 months, will be deleted.	The Galaxy service complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can read more about this on our Terms and Conditions.