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Galaxy Tool Management with Ephemeris

Abstract

This tutorial will introduce you to one of Galaxy's associated projects - Ephemeris. Ephemeris is a small Python library and set of scripts for managing the bootstrapping of Galaxy plugins - tools, index data, and workflows. It aims to help automate, and limit the quantity of manual actions admins have to do in order to maintain a Galaxy instance.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

  • How to install, update, and maintain Galaxy tools?
  • How to extract a list of tools from a workflow or Galaxy instance?

Learning Objectives

  • Learn about Ephemeris
  • Extract a list of tools from a workflow
  • Install these tools on a given Galaxy

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Galaxy Server administration, git-gat, tools

Target audience: Galaxy Administrators

Resource type: e-learning

Version: 38

Status: Active

Learning objectives:

  • Learn about Ephemeris
  • Extract a list of tools from a workflow
  • Install these tools on a given Galaxy

Date modified: 2024-06-14

Date published: 2019-01-27

Authors: Helena Rasche, Martin Čech, Nicola Soranzo

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