Introduction
The BioHackathon Europe took place in Barcelona in November 2023, where a group of people interested in image data analysis gathered around the project "Enhancing the image analysis community in Galaxy".
Although the Galaxy platform [@Galaxy] has a strong presence in omics fields like genomics and proteomics, it has yet to fully establish itself in the imaging community. At the moment, efforts to integrate tools and create workflows for image analysis in Galaxy are scattered across research fields and locations.
The vision of this project is not only to join those efforts but also to go beyond by creating cross-discipline image analysis resources. By fostering collaboration among scientists and enthusiasts from different fields we aim to create a dynamic community around image data management and analysis.
The initiative started in summer 2023 when the group gathered around a newly-created Expert Group on FAIR Image Data Workflows within Euro-BioImaging, the European Research Infrastructure offering open access to imaging technologies, training, and data services. Additionally, it aims to tap into the capabilities of Simula Research Laboratory, a Norwegian non-profit research organization that addresses crucial scientific and engineering problems with a societal impact, focusing on five primary ICT research areas: Communication Systems, Cryptography, Scientific Computing, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning. Together, these entities will foster the development of a community dedicated to crafting FAIR computational workflows specifically tailored for image analysis.
Project goals