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             To customize this page edit <code>static/welcome.html</code>
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         <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://galaxyproject.org/">Galaxy</a> is an open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research.  The <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam">Galaxy team</a> is a part of <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.bx.psu.edu">BX</a> at <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.psu.edu">Penn State</a>, and the <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.biology.emory.edu/">Biology</a> and <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/">Mathematics and Computer Science</a> departments at <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.emory.edu/">Emory University</a>.  The <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://galaxyproject.org/">Galaxy Project</a> is supported in part by <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.genome.gov">NHGRI</a>, <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.nsf.gov">NSF</a>, <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.huck.psu.edu">The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences</a>, <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.ics.psu.edu">The Institute for CyberScience at Penn State</a>, and <a target="_blank" class="reference" href="http://www.emory.edu/">Emory University</a>.</p>