Does anyone have a workable solution to managing and displaying large lists in tool wrappers? eg. a database list containing hundreds of enteries in the blast+ tool? (we have 1,056 different blast databases). As a work-around we've split our blast databases into species (eg cow, sheep, fungus, clover, fish, rice, etc) then faked a multi-select to pull in those sub-database files with conditional selectors like this:
<conditional name="db_opts"> <param name="db_opts_selector" type="select" label="Nucleotide Database Type"> <option value="pub" selected="True">Pub Databases</option> <option value="cattle">Cattle Databases</option> <option value="sheep">Sheep Databases</option> <option value="deer">Deer Databases</option> <option value="ruminant">Ruminant Databases</option> <option value="dog">Dog Databases</option> <option value="fungi">Fungi Databases</option> <option value="invertebrates">Invertebrates Databases</option> <option value="microarrays">Microarrays Databases</option> <option value="marsupials">Marsupials Databases</option> <option value="rodent">Rodent Databases</option> <option value="viruses">Viruses Databases</option> <option value="human">Human Databases</option> <option value="microarrays">Microarrays Databases</option> </param>
<when value="ruminant"> <param name="database" type="select" label="Ruminant Nucleotide BLAST database" help=""> <options from_file="blastdb.ruminant.loc"> <column name="value" index="0"/> <column name="name" index="1"/> <column name="path" index="2"/> </options> </param> <param name="subject" type="hidden" value="" /> </when>
<when value="misc"> <param name="database" type="select" label="Misc Nucleotide BLAST database" help=""> <options from_file="blastdb.misc.loc"> <column name="value" index="0"/> <column name="name" index="1"/> <column name="path" index="2"/> </options> </param> <param name="subject" type="hidden" value="" /> </when>
We end up with a lot of duplication between tool wrappers (I've never managed to get an <include> tag working) and these aren't exactly simple to maintain so does anyone have a better solution? I had thought about tacking an extra field onto the .loc files with a "species" and doing some grouping with that but haven't progressed that idea very far yet.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated :)
Thanx,
--Russell