Missing something? View this page on the old site The ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem (RSEc) and the Galaxy Codex make use of GitHub CI bots to collect research software metadata and provide a FAIR tool metadata repository for the global research communityThe ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem (RSEc) is supported and coordinated by ELIXIR Europe. It makes use of a sophisticated CI architecture that collects metadata for research software metadata, providing a unified resource for researchers, developers and curators.The RSEc collects metadata from bio.tools, Bioconda, BioContainers, Debian Med, Galaxy CoDex, OpenEBench, and WorkflowHub. This metadata is made available in the RSEc content repository. More information about the sources can be found here.The CI architecture is openly available and can be adapted and leveraged to integrate other metadata sources as well. The architecture was recently extended to include metadata from the Galaxy Codex.The CI bots perform the following tasks weekly:Galaxy Communities Dock aka Galaxy Codex is a catalog of Galaxy resources (tools, training, workflows) that can be filtered for any community. In this blog post, we only cover the tool aspect of the catalog since this is used as the source for the contribution of Galaxy to the RSEc.A GitHub action performs the following steps every week:The script will generate a registry with each tool found in the list of GitHub repositories and metadata for these tools:The data is stored as TSV and JSON in the CoDex repository.The output of the CoDex was integrated into the RSEc by the development of a Galaxy Tool Metadata GitHub Action, which populates the RSEc entries with metadata from the CoDex. An example of a tool that has metadata from multiple sources, including Galaxy is abricate.The centralized large scale collection of metadata from various sources in a simple to access FAIR repository allows for various exciting downstream tasks, such as the comparison of metadata from different sources to discover discrepancies that can be fed back to the original source and the development of a query frontend, that allows for the retrieval of multi-source metadata.ELIXIR Europeelixir-europe.orgUniversity of Freiburguni-freiburg.deInstitut Français de Bioinformatiquefrance-bioinformatique.fr Open source platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent data analysis. © 2026 Galaxy Project. All rights reserved.