The Galaxy Story

2005

The beginning

Anton Nekrutenko and James Taylor recognized the need for simple but modular web interfaces to guide scientific computation.

2008

Off we grow

First 2,000 users ran their jobs on a public server.

2010

Larger analyses

Workflows are integrated into Galaxy enabling multiple jobs to be linked together.

2012

Building a community

Galaxy is growing organically with active contributors emerging around the world.

2018

Go world-wide

UseGalaxy.* initiative is adopted with managed Galaxy servers available around the world.

2019

Add commercial services

GalaxyWorks company is formed offering Galaxy-related services.

2021

Galaxy Pro Researcher

A first-ever self sign-up Galaxy service becomes available.

2022

Galaxy Pro Deployment

Introducing fully-automated deployment in minutes.

Dannon
Baker
Daniel
Blankenberg
John
Chilton
Nate
Coraor
Jeremy
Goecks
Aysam
Guerler
Anton
Nekrutenko
Mike
Sauria