Simon Gladman’s colleagues and friends have been sharing their your memories, photos and thoughts about Simon.

It is with much sadness we share that our great friend and colleague, Simon Gladman, has died suddenly. We invite you to share your memories, photos and thoughts about Simon so we can create a tribute webpage to remember Simon and the valuable contributions he made.

Life sciences researchers are benefiting from the nifty integration that allows secure data transfer between Galaxy Australia and CloudStor. The streamlined movement of data between the two freely-available platforms demonstrates how collaboration between services are meeting the needs of Australian life science researchers.

Galaxy Australia has moved its head node and associated services to Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) to allow increased on-demand support for more users. This move provides a long-term, high-performing and reliable hosting environment for Galaxy Australia infrastructure.

The Galaxy Community Conference is coming to Brisbane after years of campaigning by the Galaxy Australia team to bring this international event to our shores. GCC2023 will bring together hundreds of researchers, trainers, tool developers, software engineers, and computational infrastructure providers, from all over the world. This unique meeting offers a range of ways to exchange information about using the Galaxy data integration and analysis platform for data intensive science.

Australian Research Data Commons has published a new impact booklet documenting how digital research infrastructure ensures Australian researchers are internationally competitive, including Galaxy Australia as a case study.

Molecular biologists and plant pathologists recently came together to learn how to use Galaxy Australia to implement small RNA sequencing for the detection of viruses and viroids in imported plants at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s Post Entry Quarantine (PEQ) Facility.