= 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.

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== 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
 * TogoTV
   * 統合TV - galaxy1en http://togotv.dbcls.jp/movie/090312galaxy1en_f.html


== Results ==
 * i18n
   * Create a repository http://bitbucket.org/mn3/galaxy-central-i18n/ from the galaxy repository to share the gettext message files and patches.
   * 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
     * OpenID login via mod_openid_auth
     * TogoWS tool
     * PNE search tool
     * Bookmakrlet tool, to display the original view of an entry id. Such function can be replaced by the semantic column function in future.
   * RSS feed for workflows to know the result updated. ?
   * View, analysis and libraries on test.g2.bx.psu.edu
 
 * Authentification
   * Introduced the OpenID Galaxy at http://testgalaxy.lifesciencedb.jp.
   * login email address management.
 
 * 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.

== TODOs ==
 * [nakao] Provide  a workflow scenario to use the TogoDB/Galaxy companion.