It's for the sniffer. I'll have to look into the magic bit, but it's obvious enough that someone else would have thought about it and done it already (or maybe I"m overly optimistic)

I could have a version without the sniffer to merge to Galaxy, but it's not super ideal.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Cristal,

Am 14.12.2016 um 22:07 schrieb Cristel Thomas:
> Hello,
>
> We'd like to add some datatypes to Galaxy specific to flow cytometry
> (finally). One of the datatype is a binary format which requires rpy2/R
> to be read (no good python module available to do that).
> How do you guys deal with that?

Is this needed for an converter or for the sniffer?
For the sniffer we do not have a good solution for this I'm afraid.
Does the datatype has a magic bit or something similar?

Cheers,
Bjoern

> Thanks,
> Cris
>
>
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