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Discover Galaxy's communities and learn how to create your subdomain and enrich it by writing, testing and submiting your tools on Galaxy. This learning pathway
will guide you through all the steps required to build a tool for Galaxy with Planemo for batch tools and how write an interactive tool.

Keywords: 3-day course, community, subdomain, tool development

Learning objectives:

  • Be able to distribute a new GxIT for others to use
  • Be able to dockerise a basic web application
  • Be able to test and debug a new GxIT locally and on a Galaxy server
  • Be able to test the tool wrapper
  • Be able to use a tool wrapper locally
  • Be able to wrap a dockerised application as a GxIT
  • Be aware of resources for expanding your Special Interest Group
  • Create a Special Interest Group
  • Create a community reviewed table for Galaxy tools within a specific scientific domain
  • Define 'Special Interest Group'
  • Determine whether you need a Galaxy Special Interest Group
  • Discover Galaxy's communities
  • Discover what Galaxy Interactive Tools (GxIT) are
  • Embed an interactive table in a community page
  • Explain the purpose of Special Interest Groups
  • Improve the looks and feel of your subdomain main page
  • Learn how Special Interest Groups interact with the Galaxy governance
  • Learn how to add tools to the Galaxy toolshed and make them available to any user
  • Learn how to customize you tool panel
  • Learn how to make and deploy a conda package
  • Learn how to set up a subdomain for you community
  • Learn to manage the tool panel of a subdomain for both batch and interactive tools
  • Understand how GxITs are structured
  • Understand how GxITs work
  • Understand how to write a Galaxy tool wrapper

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses


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