Tutorial details

Date: Saturday September 3, 2016
Time: 13:30 – 17:00 (half day tutorial)
Venue: World Forum, room: Europe 1

Tutors

• Michael Krieger, Advanced Computing Technologies department at RISC Software GmbH, Austria
• Óscar Torreño, Computer Architecture Department of the University of Malaga, Spain
• Jose Arjona, Computer Architecture Department of the University of Malaga, Spain

Summary

This tutorial will first provide an introduction to Galaxy, including an overview of what can users do with Galaxy. In addition, the introductory part will explain how to make a simple deployment of a Galaxy instance. Secondly it will be explained the steps researchers should follow to get their tools running inside Galaxy and how to publish them in the Galaxy tools repository, a.k.a. Galaxy Toolshed. This second part will have a practical session where attendees will go through a provided example to actually face the difficulties the process may arise. The third part will be composed of a multiple genome comparison workflow as use case. There will be an introductory part to the topic in order to give the required background to understand the exercise. After this, the tool definition and workflow construction in Galaxy will be shown, finalizing with the workflow execution and simple exploration of the results.

The goal is that users attending the tutorial acquire basic knowledge in:

• What Galaxy is and is capable of
• How to include and share already existing tools
• Practical experience with Galaxy through an exercise on multiple genome comparison.

Target audience

This tutorial is not targeted for users with high knowledge of Galaxy.

Prerequisites

• Little or no knowledge of Galaxy
• Basic experience in Linux environments

Schedule