[galaxy-dev] Announcement: Galaxy Reference Data

Hi all,

A frequent request we've had is to make the locally cached reference data used by the public Galaxy server (Main) available for download to local installations. To facilitate this, we've created an rsync server at datacache.g2.bx.psu.edu that serves the exact reference builds and associated indexes that we use on Galaxy Main.

Fetching and installing such data is currently a manual process, so Dave Bouvier has been working on an administrative UI in Galaxy for automatically fetching references and building indexes. Keep your eyes on the development news briefs for an announcement once this feature is ready.

--nate