Why Nuvolos Levels Up Galaxy for the Life Sciences
At Nuvolos, we are committed to improving the productivity of the life sciences, by saving researchers time and effort on managing their computational infrastructure. This is why we are excited to announce that Nuvolos now integrates the popular Galaxy Project, enhancing further our feature-rich offering for omics, bioinformatics, and biology in general. This comes on top of previous announcements, such as our support for RFDiffusion and AlphaFold2. Of course, the benefits of Galaxy are not limited to computational biology use cases, but extend in principle to any kind of data-driven research.
For those not already familiar, the Galaxy Project is a toolkit for data analysis, particularly for the life sciences. It is built according to the FAIR principles, meaning it is architected to meet the highest standards of scientific data stewardship. With Galaxy, you can:
- Run various popular tools in computational biology and beyond directly in its GUI;
- Run code in notebooks and other interactive environments;
- Share and publish data, results, and visualisations;
- And enhance reproducibility by capturing metadata in fixed and reproducible ways.
As a publicly-supported workflow platform, Galaxy is of course fully open source, and has a vibrant community of supporters and developers keeping it productive and up to date. Galaxy also works well together with other projects for easier access to bioinformatics tooling, such as the Bioconductor project for open-source software based on R and Bioconda for easy wrapping of popular bioinformatics tools.
However, there is a practical limitation. Galaxy - as many such platform tools - requires researchers to either rely on public servers, with their limited capacity for scaling and resources, or to set up your own servers and do your own server installation and maintenance, which can be a considerable burden in time. Even just the work of identifying the right server that satisfies your needs in terms of compute capacity and data can be a challenge. This is why we think Galaxy is a natural fit with Nuvolos.
Nuvolos offers the full range of features and capabilities of any Galaxy server. But on top of that, you have several additional benefits:
- First and foremost, because Nuvolos is an integrated cloud platform offering all the flexibility and capability of the cloud, you do not have to worry about limits to scalability. With Nuvolos, you can scale your tools up and down as needed, with flexibility for changing project needs and inherent cost control and budget management features.
- Secondly, Nuvolos offers a wide array of complementary tools to the bioinformatics range of Galaxy. Moreover, with Nuvolos these tools are available both in their best-in-class preconfigured form, saving you the hassle of configuration and maintenance on your favourite software, but also in custom configurations according to your project-specific needs.
- Thirdly, Nuvolos inherently saves you on any worry about server identification, setup, and maintenance. As a complete platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Nuvolos does all this for you, guaranteed.
- Finally, with Nuvolos you have virtually unlimited storage available, in all the variants that you might need - from simple file storage with Dropbox integration to table storage and support for very large files.
In short, Nuvolos and Galaxy are natural complements that enhance each other's capabilities. We hope you are as excited as we are about unlocking the potential of Galaxy for the life sciences by using the power of the cloud. If you are curious about how it works or would like to give it a try, book a free no-commitment demonstration of Nuvolos now.