Thanks very much Dannon. I will at least take a look at the code and see what is involved. The scientists here at the Lab consider this to be fairly important functionality (in both cases).
I'll let you know if I move ahead and start to implement it. Thanks again, Dave On 5/13/11 9:30 AM, "Dannon Baker" <dannonba...@me.com> wrote: > On May 9, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Dave Walton wrote: >> First the new... So I have a workflow that does analysis on paired end mRNA >> Seq data. My workflow for single end works great, but with paired end, I >> can see an obvious way to submit two lists of files (one for the forward and >> one for the reverse), which can then be submitted to a series of the same >> workflow. Once I've chosen the forward to allow selection of multiple input >> files, the option to allow the reverse to also allow selection of multiple >> input files becomes disabled. This makes perfect sense, as, unless you've >> implemented it to associate pairs of files together, this probably wouldn't >> work anyway. Is there anyone out there working on a solution to this? If >> not, does anyone have suggestion as to how we could make it work? > > We did consider the case of paired reads, as well as the possibility of > allowing for the product of all input dataset lists as we implemented multiple > inputs at the hackathon, but chose to focus on the most commonly requested use > case of a single ranged input for simplicity. The enhancement that you want > to make isn't something I currently have on my list to add, though you're more > than welcome to have a go at it. To make it work, you'd have to modify the > run workflow template ( templates/workflow/run.mako ), as well as the run > workflow controller ( lib/galaxy/web/controllers/workflow.py ) to handle the > new logic. > > >> Now the old... A while back I suggested that it would be useful while >> editing a workflow, if there were a way to grab the name of an input file as >> a variable, and then use this variable in naming all later output files >> (this way I can propagate a sample name all the way through the workflow). >> Especially in a case where we are using the option to select multiple files >> to run the same workflow, this feature is very important. Is anyone working >> on this? If not, could someone point me in the right direction if I were to >> start trying to implement this feature? > > > This is something I've wanted to add as a part of a larger set of enhancement > to the workflow parameters interface. I believe we talked about this before, > as it seems familiar to me, but even now you could approximate some of the > functionality you're looking for with workflow parameters. Another tool for > managing the outputs of these large multi-input workflow runs is the "Send > Results to New History" option in the run workflow interface. When used in > combination with multiple inputs, this option actually generates a new > numbered history for *each* separate workflow run, so "Sample Processing Run > 1", "Sample Processing Run 2" and so on. All that said, if you wanted to > implement this, you'd want to look at the run workflow template as well as the > editor template (templates/workflow/editor.mako). > > Good luck, and definitely let us know if you end up writing something that > you'd like to contribute back, > > -Dannon ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
