Tutorial: Introduction to Galaxy - a Python/WSGI framework for genomics
A free, 2 hour hands-on tutorial for genomics software developers will be offered by the Galaxy team at the start of this year's American Society for Human Genetics meeting Tuesday, October 23 4:00pm - 6:00pm, San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. See http://ashg2007.g2.bx.psu.edu/ for details and signup. Galaxy is a mature, open-source, translational genomics workbench framework, written in Python, and designed to make it easy for developers and bioinformaticians to provide a consistent, integrated, web based interface to genomics applications and resources for command line averse biologists. Galaxy supports reproducible research by persisting each step in an analysis as seen in http://screencast.g2.bx.psu.edu/MainUseExample.mov , and features low- impedence integration with major data and annotation sources including BioMart and UCSC. The main Galaxy site at http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/ offers a free, public service, but a local Mac or Linux private server test installation is quick (see http://g2.trac.bx.psu.edu/wiki/HowToInstall), and the Galaxy tool menu in a private instance is easily extended - any command line executable that takes command line parameters (including Python, R, and perl scripts, Java, compiled C++, or even Cobol...anything the target machine can execute) can be "wrapped" into a Galaxy tool by providing a simple XML interface specification (see the screencast at http://g2.trac.bx.psu.edu/wiki/AddToolTutorial). (If you plan on coming, and have a Mac or Linux laptop, please pre- install Galaxy to save time and load on the alternative arrangements we're making for Win laptop users)
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