The third session of International Webinar Series: Season two on Research and Technological Advancements in Bioinformatics will be conducted on 20th November, 2021 at 03:00 PM IST. The topic that will be covered in this session is FuSe: A Tool for Functional Analysis of RNA-Seq Data by Dr. Rajinder Gupta. This session will be organised by the Centre of Excellence in Health Care Technologies and Informatics (CEHTI) and Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT).

A pre-conference workshop on the Galaxy community, tools, and workflows for Cheminformatics and NGS data, was organized by CSIR-NEIST. The conference intended to bring eminent scientists, technologists, and young researchers together in the area of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology across the globe so as to provide a common platform for discussing their achievements and newer directions of cutting-edge research. This conference deliberated the latest developments in the field of Bioinformatics with a special interest to Computational drug discovery within the country and worldwide.

An introductory lecture and hands-on training were conducted on Galaxy basics by Ms. Darshana Joshi, Ms. Alanis Tanya and Dr. Kiran K Telukunta. The event was organized on 30th October 2021 at 19:15 IST, as a part of the INBIX '21 Indian Conference on Bioinformatics.

As part of Integrated Bioinformatics workshop of Bioclues a workshop was held on Galaxy Framework covering topics such how Galaxy is supporting Covid19 research, Introduction to the framework and Cheminformatic applications with Galaxy by Harpreet Singh, Kiran K Telukunta, Sangram Sahu as a part of the Bioclues monthly Journal and TMS Foundation on 29^th May 2021 at 20:00 IST.

An online webinar on Git and its use in Galaxy by Kiran K Telukunta, as a part of the Bioclues monthly Journal and TMS Foundation on 29^th May 2021 at 20:00 IST.

An online talk discussing one of the foremost projects of Galaxy, Next Generation Sequencing Analysis of of lung cancer datasets: A functional genomics perspective by Dhatri Madduru and Pranathi Pappu

This was perhaps the first Galaxy project from India mentored by Prash.

A talk followed by a workshop on GALAXY India project was conducted during the online International conference on Data Science in Biology (ICDSB) 2020 on 3^rd September, 2020. During this event Anshu Bhardwaj introduced about “Galaxy and Galaxy India” while Harpreet Singh gave introduction about “Bioclues and its role as a launch pad for GALAXY Bioclues India initiative”. These talks were followed by a workshop conducted by Rakesh Kumar and Tina Sharma from IMTECH, Chandigarh on the topics “Galaxy Installation, tool and workflow integration” and “Sample workflow of mapping of AMR determinants from Nanopore data”, respectively.

An online webinar on Introduction to Galaxy platform by Kiran K Telukunta, Sangram Kesari Sahu and Sahana Muthukumar as a part of the Bioclues weekly Journal club on 25^th September 2020 at 15:00 IST.

Bioclues stakeholders made a mark during the online Bioinformatics Community Conference 2020 (BCC2020).

Harpreet Singh, Anshu Bhardwaj and Prashanth Survajhala from Bioclues acted as speakers along with other members of the GALAXY India team including Sonika Tyagi, Pratik Jagtap, Sangram Sahu and Kiran K Telukunta during the Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF): Galaxy-India: Launch and Outreach Plans” sessions which were conducted for the West as well as East hemispheres. In this BoF, various deliberations were made related to the launch of Galaxy India community with the events such as Webinars, Workshops, Faculty Enrichment Programs, Galaxy Workflow videos in local languages etc.

Two day online Hands-on-Training on Advanced integrated Frameworks. Kiran K Telukunta in collaboration with Coding Photon Pvt Ltd organized multidisciplinary online workshop on Galaxy Framework.