5. Galaxy

The Galaxy project enables researchers to perform computational analyses using a web interface.

You can use the service online at http://usegalaxy.org/ or any of the other available public servers.

The software powering the servers itself, is available under an open-source licence. You can download it and set up a local instance on your computer.

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• 5.1. Why use Galaxy?
  • 5.1.1. What can you use Galaxy for?
  • 5.1.2. Why run Galaxy on your computer?
• 5.2. Running Galaxy on your computer
  • 5.2.1. Check system requirements
  • 5.2.2. Getting the latest release of Galaxy
  • 5.2.3. Creating a Python virtual environment
  • 5.2.4. Starting Galaxy
  • 5.2.5. Stopping Galaxy
• 5.3. Registering a user account
  • 5.3.1. Managing your account
• 5.4. Granting admin privileges for user
  • 5.4.1. Creating a configuration file
  • 5.4.2. Adding user to list of admin users
  • 5.4.3. Restarting Galaxy
  • 5.4.4. Verifying admin access