News

August 23, 2016: oqtans instance operating from ETH Zürich data center.
April 24, 2015: 1000+ userbase on oqtans server and still counting...
March 30, 2015: We integrated new release version of RiboDiff in our server.
January 28, 2015: Patching security flaw in glibc (CVE-2015-0235).
December 22, 2014: RHN Errata Alert: kernel security and bug fix update finished.
October 17, 2014: oqtans training modules included in Galaxy Training Network.
October 15, 2014: Applied patch for POODLE – An SSL v3.0 Vulnerability.
September 25, 2014: Fix the shockshell vulnerability and security issues.
August 13, 2014: oqtans instance updated to new stable release.
July 23, 2014: oqtans instance operating from New Jersey data center.
June 30, 2014: GCC 2014 Discuss oqtans poster at Galaxy Community Conference 2014, Baltimore.
May 29, 2014: Reference Genome New reference genome built-in indexes added (mm10, hg38..) to NGS tools.
May 06, 2014: Data Drive Storage Additional data storage space 4TB in RAID6 added to the oqtans instance.
April 10, 2014: SSL certificate Re-issued a new security certificate for oqtans, Password change recommended.
April 8, 2014: OpenSSL Updated OpenSSL for oqtans to counteract the Heartbleed security bug.
January 13, 2014: oqtans article online Our galaxy-based RNA-seq analysis suite oqtans published as paper
December 13, 2013: oqtans Manuscript accepted.
July 1, 2013: Synced User Data We have synced the data of all registered users to this new location.
June 28, 2013: SSL Certificate New SSL certificate enabled for the instance from Entrust.
June 19, 2013: Oqtans Published Pages The use cases are exported from cloud.oqtans.org to Local instance.
May 21, 2013: Self-signed SSL Certificate The new instance is running with a self-signed security certificate.
May 6, 2013: Web Security Assessment Remediated the Vulnerabilities and Residual risks indentified for our Galaxy instance.
April 28, 2013: User Password Encryption Hashing passwords using python PBKDF2 with random, unique salt and constant time comparison.
April 6, 2013: User Authentication Session Encryption Encryption of login process and subsequent actions passed through a secured Session cookie.
March 25, 2013: Remediated Redirection Vulnerability Validate all user-controlled input, including GET request variables. If the input is intended to redirect a user, it must be validated to ensure it only presents them with a page on the trusted site.
February 21, 2013: Web Security Scan Information Security team started a web security scan on the local instance deployment.
January 25, 2013: Hosted New Server Machine The new server machine arrived and hosted at local data center.
November 1, 2012: Server Moved The galaxy server has temporarily moved to a cloud location. It will be moved again in two months or so. Let us know if something does not work.
May 23, 2011: Wig_to_bedGraph We added a converter program, which converts data from Wiggle to bedGraph format. (see Convert Format)
May 12, 2011: Maintenance We switched our service to a new server machine.
April 15, 2011: GFF Toolkit We integrated a collection of tools for pre-processing Generic Feature Format (GFF) in our service (see GFF Toolkit).
March 1, 2011: rQuant We integrated new release of rQuant in our service (see NGS: Quantitation Tools).
February 1, 2011: Maintenance We are upgrading our galaxy hosting server and will be down between 1-4 PM (localtime)
January 19, 2011: Maintenance We upgraded our computing cluster nodes to new lucid OS. Very few services are down, we are working to make them normal. Thanks for your patience.
July 3, 2010: PALMapper We integrated new release version of PALMapper in our service (see NGS: Mapping).
March 22, 2010: Mosek Agreement We settled an agreement with MOSEK that allows us to offer all our MOSEK-based tools (mGene, PALMapper, rQuant, etc) also to non-academic users via Galaxy.
February 21, 2010: Maintenance This server will be down for maintenance on Monday, February 22, 2010 between 9-12am CEST.
February 19, 2010: rQuant We added a new version of the rQuant tools for transcriptome quantitation from short read data (see NGS: Quantitation Tools)