Re: [galaxy-dev] to put or not to put a tool suite into the toolshed

2014-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Maier
Thanks a lot for all the encouraging feedback. More than anything else the friendly atmosphere that seems to prevail on this mailing list makes me think that it may indeed be worthwhile to make the package available to this community ! I will have a closer look at the toolshed instructions and

Re: [galaxy-dev] to put or not to put a tool suite into the toolshed

2014-06-06 Thread Björn Grüning
Hi Wolfgang, I am maintaining a (still young) suite of command line tools (written in Python) for identification of mutations in model organism genomes through whole-genome sequencing (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mimodd/). MiModD aims at geneticists that do not have much background in bioin

Re: [galaxy-dev] to put or not to put a tool suite into the

2014-06-06 Thread Kandalaft, Iyad
Hello Wolfang, I agree that developing the Galaxy "way" is not always "easy". The main advantage of galaxy's toolshed is a point that you stated in your introduction "reproducibility". Galaxy's toolshed enforces proper versioning of tool wrappers and its dependency on underlying software. He

Re: [galaxy-dev] to put or not to put a tool suite into the toolshed

2014-06-06 Thread Hans-Rudolf Hotz
Hi Wolfgang short answer: Please, put your package into the Galaxy Tool Shed. This makes it visible to the whole Galaxy community and everybody can profit from it. long answer: I have been in the same boat. We never put the Galaxy wrappers and the perl scripts of our old NGS pipeline into