EOSC-Pillar Use case 6 - Exploring reference data through existing computing services for the bioinformatics community

Galaxy is a widely adopted workflow management systems for bioinformatics, aiming to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming or systems administration experience.

How can scientists connect this useful, reproducibility-oriented tool seamlessly with many data sources? How can they do so in a coherent way using different instances of Galaxy? Can they run it locally or on a secured infrastructure that handles patient data? Can they compare the results of those different scenarios? Those are the main questions this use-case wants to address.

Building on top of existing French and Italian national services, the use-case will produce guidelines and best practices, and implement a service prototype based on different scientific scenarios in order to:

• Allow access to reference data from different Galaxy deployments within the EOSC
• Facilitate the deployment of Galaxy instances close to the data
• Provide coherency between different existing Galaxy deployments
• Ensure health data security requirements are met throughout the process

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