Ensuring long-term sustainability for open source scientific infrastructure that thousands of researchers depend on.
How do we keep Galaxy alive and funded?
Galaxy serves thousands of researchers worldwide, enabling science that wouldn’t otherwise happen. But open source infrastructure projects face chronic funding challenges. Grant cycles don’t match software maintenance needs. The work that keeps things running is often invisible. Solving this isn’t just about Galaxy - it’s about how we fund critical digital infrastructure.
Sustainability requires multiple approaches:
The challenge: the people who benefit most often have the least ability to pay.
Timeline entries that share tags with this problem.
Introduced comprehensive Playwright support alongside Selenium, enabling runtime selection between frameworks while maintaining full backward compatibility through a protocol-based architecture.
Implemented comprehensive sample sheet functionality enabling users to define, create, and utilize complex metadata structures through multiple interfaces including workflow editors, spreadsheet programs, and collection tools.
Published comprehensive research on Planemo, a software development toolkit with over 70,000 downloads that streamlines creation, deployment, and execution of scientific data analysis tools in Galaxy and Common Workflow Language.