Galaxy Europe - An IT infrastructure for FAIR Data Analysis

Galaxy Europe (https://usegalaxy.eu) is an ELIXIR-recommended open-source IT infrastructure (RIR) (https://galaxyproject.org/news/2023-12-14-elixir-rir-for-galaxy-europe) emphasizing interoperability and FAIR data analysis. This infrastructure, based on the Galaxy project (https://galaxyproject.org), supports multi-disciplinary, data-driven research.

Galaxy Europe enables users to:

• Freely access thousands of tools, regularly enhanced and updated, from various research fields such as life, earth system, environment, or climate sciences. This includes tools for data import, organization, sharing, annotation, and export. Each tool can be plugged into a workflow.
• Use interactive tools such as QGIS, RStudio, and JupyterLab directly on the platform.
• Design, reproduce, (remotely) run, share, and publish analysis workflows using these batch and interactive tools, (with or) without programming skills.
• Freely use huge compute and storage resources without any charge.
• Have a dedicated subdomain designed with the necessary tools regarding one scientific domain. For instance, FAIR-EASE implemented a subdomain focusing on earth system sciences (earth-system.usegalaxy.eu) gathering ocean, land, atmospheric and biodiversity processing software.

Fully integrated into the work area, the Galaxy Training Network (https://training.galaxyproject.org) provides hundreds of free and open tutorials and learning pathways from over thirty scientific topics on data analysis, tool development, and workflow design. The Galaxy Training Network, thus, helps democratize the use of Galaxy, supporting the adoption of open science practices and promoting the reuse of tools and data

The two EOSC projects — EuroScienceGateway and FAIR-EASE — have been joining forces for two years to further improve Galaxy Europe and make it a unique solution for FAIR analysis of scientific data. FAIR-EASE adds numerous tools, workflows, and tutorials for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies on Earth System sciences, creating an interdomain digital architecture for the integrated use of environmental data. EuroScienceGateway, on the other hand, provides a robust open infrastructure for data-driven research.

With inputs from these two projects, we will showcase how Galaxy facilitates access to data, tools, and workflows, while supporting the reuse of these resources across diverse research contexts. Additionally, RO-Crate provides a FAIR packaging solution for research objects, including data, methods, and software, by incorporating structured metadata that preserves workflows and their execution histories. This approach, adopted by projects as a practical implementation of the FAIR vision, enables workflows to be deposited into registries like WorkflowHub for broader accessibility.