User Accounts

Although you can use Galaxy without creating a user account, we highly recommend doing so. Painless registration involves an email, password, and user name - that's it and your ready to go!

Having an account:

• allows access to data and analysis from any computer connected to the Internet
• increases the data and job quotas on the public instances Main and Test
• will safeguard a history (accountless histories are cleared on a systematic basis)
• grants the ability to name, save, share, and publish Galaxy objects: Histories, Workflows, Datasets, Pages
• is required to FTP larger datasets to Main (also see the screencast Using FTP)

When registering, please note the Mailing Lists subscription checkbox. By checking it you will be subscribed to the galaxy-user@bx.psu.edu mailing list, with mid-level activity (make a filter!) focused on discussion about data and tools for new and experienced users of the Main public instance - a great place to start.

The other mailing list, galaxy-dev@bx.psu.edu, is a community hub to discuss technical details for local and cloud instances, tool design and development, and production environment applications of Galaxy. Higher volume, but a must for those interested in the details.

And be certain to visit Galaxy News to find out how to keep informed about general announcements, source distributions, and periodic maintenance.