Hello,
I'm working on a project to integrate a Galaxy instance with a remote
software execution service. The service maintains a catalogue of
applications, storage and execution hosts, files (input and output) and
jobs (submitted, executing, finished, etc) all manageable through REST
endpoints. For the integration, I'd like apps, datasets and jobs in the
service to be available through Galaxy.
RIght now, I'm querying the service to retrieve the catalogue of apps
available to a user and, after some conversion, inserting them into the
Galaxy toolbox. For these apps, jobs are submitted via the REST API and
executed on the execution host registered in the service. I'm currently
polling a status endpoint in the service to keep Galaxy updated with the
job's status.
I'd like the I/O to be seamless for the users, so that datasets
generated from "native" Galaxy tools/jobs can be used as inputs for
service apps and vice versa. Similarly, I would like to take advantage
of Galaxy's data viewer for datasets generated by remote jobs. Since
the service can handle files published to URLs, I was looking into that
approach. It looks like Galaxy has some support for this -- perhaps
using redirect params? Is that right, and if so, is there documentation
on what is currently supported in Galaxy? Does this seem like the best
approach?
Among other wish list items, it would be nice if the toolbox (or at
least the catalogue of apps in the service) could be refreshed
real-time. Right now they are only being added at server start up.
Quite generally, I would welcome any comments or suggestions on the
overall integration approach as I am fairly new to Galaxy.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
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Joe Stubbs
Research Engineering Scientist Associate
Texas Advanced Computing Center
University of Texas, Austin
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