Hi,
I completely agree with Hans proposal. Creating a new page to list all the tools would be a good alternative. In addition, this page could offer categories of bioinformatic tools and more information of the tool in question. Nevertheless, a Google search box is a very good starting point.
The potential of Galaxy is very high and organizing all the ready-to-use tools can, on the one hand, save a lot of time to people who needs a specific tool and, on the other hand, exploit the full potential of Galaxy Public servers that, in my opinion, the still chaotic mode to use these servers is limiting Galaxy usability and popularity.
Bernardo
2013/3/4 Hans-Rudolf Hotz hrh@fmi.ch
On 03/03/2013 05:18 PM, Dave Clements wrote:
Hi Bernardo,
I'm intrigued by this idea. It might be possible to build a Google custom search, similar to the Tools tab of the usegalaxy search (http://galaxyproject.org/**search/usegalaxy/http://galaxyproject.org/search/usegalaxy/). That's would not be an ideal solution, but it would be quick to implement.
or adding a new page to listing all the tools (similar to the "Tool versions" page you get from the report tools). And this page can easily be called and parsed from a central location.
This kind of reminds me to the "good old days" when we checked the list of databases available from all the public SRS servers:
http://bioblog.instem.com/**download/srs-parser-and-** software-downloads/public-srs-**installations/http://bioblog.instem.com/download/srs-parser-and-software-downloads/public-srs-installations/
where the info is all taken from pages like:
http://www.dkfz.de/menu/cgi-**bin/srs7.1.3.1/wgetz?-page+**databankshttp://www.dkfz.de/menu/cgi-bin/srs7.1.3.1/wgetz?-page+databanks http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srsbin/**cgi-bin/wgetz?-page+databankshttp://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srsbin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-page+databanks
Such a page listing all the tools would also be nice for the users. Not everybody likes search boxes. Some people prefer reading lists.....
Hans-Rudolf
Let me take a look at this in a week or two (traveling this week) and
see if searching ~28 sites is tractable/possible with a free Google custom search.
Thanks,
Dave C
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Bernardo Bello <popnard@gmail.com mailto:popnard@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi community, Due to the increasing Galaxy public servers PublicGalaxyServers <http://wiki.galaxyproject.**org/PublicGalaxyServers<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/PublicGalaxyServers>>it would be very
useful to have a search tool in order to look for software ready-to-use in the public servers. Since I know this is not available. Will it be feasible? Here is the Trello Card https://trello.com/c/FdF5h17c Regards, Bernardo -- *Bernardo Bello Ortí* PhD student CReSA-IRTA Campus de Bellaterra-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Edifici CReSA 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona, Spain) Tel.: 647 42 52 63 *www.cresa.es <http://www.cresa.es> * * * ______________________________**_____________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/-- <http://galaxyproject.org/**wiki/GCC2012http://galaxyproject.org/wiki/GCC2012
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