Satellite meeting for Galaxy

Topics

Galaxy is an interactive platform to process biological data using various tools.

The URL of Galaxy is:  http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/

This meeting provides an opportunity to discuss the following topics on Galaxy.

• Internationalization (i18n): UTF-8 encoding support, etc.
• Workflow: Future plan, accessibility to workflows through API, etc.
• Authentification: remote_user login: OpenID support, email address management etc.
• TogoDB/Galaxy companion: To browse, search and share a Galaxy history item at TogoDB.

# Please add a new topic to this list.

Chairperson

• Mitsuteru Nakao

Targets

• Developers of Galaxy and its related software
• End-users of tools for biological data

Date

• 18th March, 2009

Room

• Chura Hall (3F)

Attendees

• James Taylor
• Greg von Kuster
• Mitsuteru Nakao
• Takashi Hatakeyama
• Atsuko Yamaguchi
• Kozo Nishida
• Hong-woo Chun

Presentations

• James Taylor (in the Symposium on 16th March)
  • Integrated reproducible analysis with Galaxy
  • Attachments (PPT or PDF slides etc.)

• Mitsuteru Nakao
  • Current state of Galaxy i18n

• Atsuko Yamaguchi
  • Activities of DBCLS related to Galaxy

Notes

• How to join developing Galaxy (Japanese)
  •  http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kozo-ni/20090317#1237263807

Results

• i18n
  • Ffolked a repository  http://bitbucket.org/mn3/galaxy-central-i18n/ from the galaxy repository.
  • Set UTF-8 to display non-ascii characters at the history and middle pane.

• Workflow
  • Introduced the tools developed by DBCLS.  http://testgalaxy.lifesciencedb.jp
  • RSS feed for workflows to know the result is updated.

• Authentification
  • Introduced the OpenID Galaxy at  http://testgalaxy.lifesciencedb.jp

• TogoDB/Galaxy companion
  • Export a history item into TogoDB is likely to implement as a tool.
  • Import a history item from TogoDB is likely to use the URL based GetData?.
  • Send a workflow scenario to use the TogoDB/Galaxy companion.

TODOs

• [nakao] Send a workflow scenario to use the TogoDB/Galaxy companion.