Abstract

The Toolfactory and these tutorials are for developers and researchers learning about Galaxy, who routinely develop their own analysis scripts using

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

• What options exist for new-to-Galaxy developers to convert functioning command line scripts into Galaxy tools?
• Can any command line script I've written be wrapped as a Galaxy tool?
• How can I get the ToolFactory working locally, since you tell me it should never be exposed on a public server?
• What is the difference between a hand-crafted tool and a ToolFactory generated one?

Learning Objectives

• Learn why you might want to use the ToolFactory development server
• Watch a video demonstration and explore the generated code - Hello Galaxy Training Network!
• Run it locally in Docker.
• Install and explore the simple examples provided.
• Modify and re-generate them to see how the changes affect the tool
• Generate new simple Galaxy tools using your own scripts