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