Hi Peter, On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Peter Cock wrote:
Hi all,
In brainstorming here about how to organise the tools menu in our local Galaxy, we considered an automatically populated list of the user's frequently or recently used tools. Unlike a favourites system, this doesn't require explicit action from the user.
This is currently available in the Options menu of the tool panel ( Options -> Show recently used )
That brought us to another thought - does Galaxy track how often different tools are used? Even if that hasn't been done till now, it should be possible to trawl the database of all non-purged histories and tally up usage counts.
See the "Jobs per tool" report in the Galaxy reports.
That information would be helpful for many decisions - including optimising the listing for easy of use, or making sure the most used tools all have excellent documentation. If this could also count the run time as well as run count, it would be particularly helpful for identifying where most of the server time is spent, so which tools which would most benefit from optimisation or different hardware upgrades.
Currently run time is only available on a per tool per job basis, but the reports could be enhanced to show averages if this is needed.
Do you already do this internally for the main public Galaxy interface?
Thanks,
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