Hi,<br><br>I&#39;m trying to wrap up my own tool in Galaxy. The input to my tool include the set of EST (such as the entire human collection). I tried using UCSC genome browser but it doesn&#39;t seem to let me download the whole human collection due to the size of the data.<br>
<br>I tried to implement my own FTP client and try to wrap that up in galaxy. I intend to have the FTP client download data from NCBI&#39;s FTP server directly, and have the downloaded files as output files to feed back into galaxy. I intend to make the FTP client somewhat generic, so as not to enforce the type of files. Though in my case, I would be download gzipped genbank files.<br>
<br>But galaxy support for multiple output files kind of tripped me over. I do not know exactly what to do, since it looks as if galaxy requires a strict naming convention for the outputs, according to <a href="http://gmod.827538.n3.nabble.com/Multiple-output-not-known-until-tool-run-td1734071.html">http://gmod.827538.n3.nabble.com/Multiple-output-not-known-until-tool-run-td1734071.html</a> (the case I have is obviously that the number of files would not be known until run time).<br>
<br>I guess it doesn&#39;t really, really matter, if I send those files, whatever the naming convention are, and fed it to a gzip decompressor (which I am planning to do a simple wrap up, just to be able to handle my stuff). Then it should all work out fine.<br>
<br>Alternatively, I can just ask user to download from NCBI ftp themselves, decompress them, and upload it to galaxy.<br><br>What&#39;s the best approach here?<br><br>And I noticed that file types does not include genbank types nor gzip types. Is there some generic type I could use? Just Data class?<br>
<br>Timothy<br>