Galaxy September 7, 2012 Distribution & News Brief

Highlights:

NCBI BLAST+ has moved from the Galaxy distribution to the Galaxy's Main Tool Shed.
Tool Shed is now running Mercurial version 2.2.3. Many updates and refinements including UI/metadata changes - read the full report.
Streamline local setup with the Reference Genome rsync Server: same builds and indexes as on the public Galaxy Main instance.
More updates to Output and Error Handling including updated documentation and enhancements to exit code checks.
TopHat2 / Bowtie2 latest support includes Tophat2 fusions output, Bowtie2 sorted BAMs, and a new RNA-seq Tutorial.
Trackster updates include improved support for bigWig / bigBed, new support for bedGraph, and a new search feature for GFF / GTF / BED datasets.
Plus many other Workflow, API, Source, UI features and a summary of recent Galaxy Update highlights.

new: $ hg clone http://www.bx.psu.edu/hg/galaxy galaxy-dist

upgrade: $ hg pull -u -r e6444e7a1685

Thanks for using Galaxy!

Jennifer Jackson & Galaxy Team