Hi Bjoern,
My galaxy/database/files/000/dataset_1_files/ directory contains a bunch of files that I want to load into a genome viewer, including the target fasta file, .fai, several bam and .bam.bai files, and some bed files among a few others. I'm looking to wire up an IGV-web application (a pure javascript version of IGV) to access and display these files. The IGV-web app just needs the URLs to access these files. I have a tool built into galaxy that generates these files and stores them as the composite data type, and I'm trying to add in the visualization capability such that one can click on a hyperlink provided in the finished job panel in order to access the igv-web view.
Again, the general issue is just - how to best enable an external application to access the extra_files of a composite data set?
Ideally, it would involve configuration of some
galaxy/display_applications/display.xml
file to indicate how the URL should be constructed. The final url could be simply:
where data_base_url just gives the base URL to where my files would exist on galaxy, and since I know ahead of time the names of the files to expect in that directory, my web app can just reconstruct the URLs to the various files (fa, bam, bed, etc.).
Alternatively, the url could provide a list of urls to all of the required resources - with the requirement that the .bam.bai files can be accessed by simply putting a .bai on the end of the bam url for each bam, and likewise for .fai for fasta files.
many thx,
~brian