Hello Saket,
Thanks for your interest - I totally agree, I think a lot of tools like this would be better served as visualization plugins. There is a Trello card for this request https://trello.com/c/YLA70rZx - please vote up if you are interested.
This has been discussed by the core team and I some member of the team was largely in favor though there was some descent. I think both the tool shed and visualization framework are well suited to allow this integration (not that there aren't many little hurdles, but I think at a high level it should be possible).
That said - I don't think this is a top priority for the core team right now (though others should definitely correct me if I am wrong) - and I would be surprised to see movement on it this year.
Perhaps until this is available perhaps the community should just maintain a centralized list of repositories on the wiki? I think seeing a list of community developed plugins would also help the team guage how important automating install of new plugins should be.
-John
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Saket Choudhary saketkc@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if there is a possibility of a 'Tool'Shed for Visualisation registry plugins(custom plugins, developed by users/developers)?
The motivation for this comes from a small 'tool' I wrote for visualiing fastq phred scores using box plots[Still under development] here: http://saketkc.github.io/biojs/src/test/javascript/TestPhredScoreViewer.html
I am relying on d3.text to read my fastq, but I believe I could handle this in a much better way had I written it for Galaxy's Visualisation registry specifically. For e.g. I could fetch fastq scores line by line using Galaxy's API, which would make my task a bit easier.
I could always keep this to my local instance of Galaxy, but a 'toolshed' or 'registry' for visualisation would help.
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