Galaxy
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Galaxy is a framework of interactive tools for comparative genomics, targeting both experimental and computational biologists.
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Demo & Screenshots
The Galaxy screencasts and demos are located here.
Requirements
- Subversion to obtain the current code can be downloaded here.
- Python version 2.4 or higher
- Mac OS X currently requires Universal "Fat" Python 2.4 (the Python 2.4 build officially supported by Apple) from http://macpython.org/ (direct link)
- Galaxy runs fine in most Posix environments. It is not currently supported on Windows platforms, but necessary Python eggs can be built by those desiring to host it on Windows.
Documentation
- Most Galaxy documentation is in the Galaxy Wiki.
- Galaxy: A platform for interactive large-scale genome analysis, by Belinda Giardine, Cathy Riemer, Ross C. Hardison, Richard Burhans, Laura Elnitski, Prachi Shah, Yi Zhang, Daniel Blankenberg, Istvan Albert, James Taylor, Webb Miller, W. James Kent and Anton Nekrutenko, Genome Res. 15:1451-1455, 2005
Mailing Lists
| Mailing List Link | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Galaxy | galaxy-dev | Discussion and questions regarding local installations and development of Galaxy. |
| galaxy-user | General questions and discussion regarding Galaxy usage, especially pertaining to the public sites hosted by the Galaxy Team. Also used for announcements relevant to the Galaxy user community. |
Downloads
Galaxy aims to be a zero configuration entirely self-contained system that provides a lightweight webserver, an embedded database and a multi-threaded job manager. All tools (and their parameters) can be specified via simple XML based configuration files. Galaxy download and installation information is located here.
