(Apologies is anyone who go this twice, the Galaxy mailing list has been offline.) Hello all, As many of you know I wrote the original BLAST+ wrappers for Galaxy, which are now on the Tool Shed here: * http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/devteam/ncbi_blast_plus * http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/devteam/blast_datatypes Over the years other people have started to make contributions (e.g. Edward Kirton worked on BLAST databases as a datatype), and this is starting to become a team effort. I'd like that to continue. I've already been in contact with by email with those interested people I knew about to setup a developers meeting during GCC2013, but realise it might be nice to have this formally listed as a BoF - and to make sure we have an allocated time slot as there seems to be a lot going on at the Oslo meeting: http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/BoF/GalaxyBlast Not everyone will be at the conference, but don't worry - like most open source projects most of this will be done online. People using BLAST+ within Galaxy could come along too and tell us about what they think we should prioritise, but I am mainly hoping to get together with people who have or will be actively involved in the wrapper development and testing. Thanks all, Peter P.S. I will only have intermittent email access from now until the GCC2013 meeting.