Dear Galaxy Community, The May 11, 2012 Galaxy Distribution has been released at: http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist/ Complete News Brief <http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/DevNewsBriefs/2012_05_11> *Highlights:* * *EMBOSS* tools and datatypes have now moved from the _/Galaxy distribution/_ <http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist/> to the /Galaxy Main Tool Shed/ <http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu>. * Tool Integration Tests <http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed#Using_Galaxy.27s_functional_test_framework_to_test_tools_installed_into_your_local_Galaxy_instance>, Custom Tool Panel Configuration <http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed#Managing_the_layout_of_your_Galaxy_tool_panel>, and Configurable Tool Output Locations <http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Tools/Multiple%20Output%20Files>. * Improved Multiprocess Job Handling <http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Config/Performance/Web%20Application%20Scaling> and Enhanced OpenID <http://openid.net> Support. * GATK <http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki> version 1.4, FreeBayes <http://github.com/ekg/freebayes>, Updated *Megablast* using NCBI BLAST+ <http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi>, Trinity <http://trinityrnaseq.sourceforge.net>, WormBase 2 <http://www.wormbase.org>, and IGB <http://bioviz.org/igb/index.html> external display. * Trackster <http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Learn/Visualization> upgrades include /strand coloring/, /interval datatype support/, and /tabix indexing/ (fast!!). * Updated *User Interface*, *Workflow-API* upgrades, and *Custom UCSC Display*. *http://getgalaxy.org* *new*: % hg clone http://www.bx.psu.edu/hg/galaxy galaxy-dist *upgrade*: % hg pull -u -r 17d57db9a7c0 /Thanks for using Galaxy!/ Jennifer Jackson Galaxy Team <http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Galaxy%20Team> http://galaxyproject.org