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The Belgian Galaxy instance

Welcome to the public Galaxy instance of VIB Data Core and ELIXIR Belgium hosted at VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Centre) to enable accessible, reproducible and transparent computational research. Galaxy supports thousands of documented and maintained tools that are free to use.

  • 50GB of storage
  • For every registered user
  • Need more storage?
  • Hundreds of reference datasets
  • To be used in your workflow or tool
  • Need an additional reference dataset?
  • Thousands of tools available
  • Ready to use
  • Don't find your favorite tool?
  • Galaxy Training Network (GTN)
  • Collection of tutorials developed and maintained by the worldwide Galaxy community

Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS)

Are you looking to run a training course using Galaxy? We provide free infrastructure for hosting Galaxy training events, so your participants experience the fastest possible job times. Don't let a job queue ruin your workshop!

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First time here?

Have a look at our Quick start guide to get an impression of the general layout of Galaxy.

Contact us

For questions and general enquiries please contact us at galaxy@elixir-belgium.org or fill in our contact form.

Our Data Policy

Registered users

Be aware that users should not use useGalaxy.be as the primary storage of their data as datasets are not independently backed up. Once a user marks a dataset as deleted, it will be permanently removed within 14 days. If the user "purges" the dataset in useGalaxy.be, it will be removed immediately, permanently. An extended quota can be requested for a limited time period in special cases. Please use the quota expansion form.

Unregistered Users

Processed data will only be accessible during one browser session, using a cookie to identify your data. This cookie is not used for any other purposes (e.g. tracking or analytics.) If useGalaxy.be service is not accessed for 90 days, those datasets will be permanently deleted.

GDPR compliance

The Galaxy service complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can read more about this on our GDPR Compliance and Terms of Service page.

Acknowledgment Statement

When you use Galaxy Belgium to support your publication or project, please acknowledge its use with the following statement:

"This work is supported by useGalaxy.be, a service provided by VIB Data Core and ELIXIR Belgium (funded by Research Foundation-Flanders, project I000323N), hosted at VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Centre)."

Data deposition

Do you want to submit your raw sequences to ENA, the European Nucleotide Archive? We offer an easy to use upload tool that uses template spreadsheets to add and modify all ENA metadata objects.

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The Galaxy Project

useGalaxy.be is one of the Galaxy servers that make up the usegalaxy.* initiative. Along with Galaxy Europe and Galaxy Main in the USA, the usegalaxy.* servers aim to provide a global publicly available bioinformatics resource.