AquaINFRA
The overarching goal of the EU-funded AquaINFRA project is to design and implement a research data infrastructure to assist scientists from the aquatic realm in restoring healthy oceans, rivers, and lakes. The key components of the infrastructure are the Data Discovery and Access Service (DDAS) as the backend, the AquaINFRA Interaction Platform (AIP) as the central gateway to the project and search interface, and the Virtual Research Environment (VRE). In addition, several researchers in the project work on case studies to demonstrate the usefulness and benefits of FAIR and open data organized in such an infrastructure.
In this blog post, I describe the design rationale for using the Galaxy platform as the central (and currently only) component of the VRE. I will briefly summarize the needs defined in the AquaINFRA proposal, show how Galaxy can address these requirements, and outline challenges and limitations that come with the Galaxy platform.
