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How-to for adding a new tool into UAB's Galaxy instance. This details adding a tool that has it's own executable(s), rather than a pure python script.  
How-to for adding a new tool into UAB's Galaxy instance. This details adding a tool that has it's own executable(s), rather than a pure python script.  
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== pre-requisits ==
== pre-requisits ==

Revision as of 20:51, 2 November 2011

How-to for adding a new tool into UAB's Galaxy instance. This details adding a tool that has it's own executable(s), rather than a pure python script.

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pre-requisits

  1. Install the tools on the cluster
    • /share/apps/your_tool (email mhanby@uab.edu to get the directory created)
    • /lustre/project/your_project (email mhanby@uab.edu to get the directory created)
    • /share/apps/galaxy/galaxy-tools (only if this will ONLY be used in Galaxy)
  2. Create a personal galaxy for developement & testing
  3. Add the executable path to the galaxy environment
    • $galaxyroot/modulefiles/galaxy*: edit the module definition file to add your tool location to the path
  4. Load the updated module and make sure the command works from the commandline!
    • module load galaxy
    • test, test, test...

Special Case: REST or SPARQL endpoints

There are already tools for integrating these through a wizard. See the Galaxy Toolshed and navigate to Tools Shed -> Data Source

creating a command-wrapper by hand