Sorry for being really verbose on this list recently, but we are making a huge push for Galaxy right now. Hopefully you all aren't annoyed by me yet...!
One thing we want to do after a MiSeq run is to run all assemblies and then report certain statistics such as N50. These metrics would then be reported in an exportable spreadsheet for our molecular biologists. I have the scripts ready to calculate these metrics. My questions here are:
1) Is there any kind of existing functionality that is close to what I want? 2) If not, 2a) Is there a way to trigger some scripts for assembly and metrics (and maybe more) once a MiSeq dumps all the data into Galaxy? 2b) Is there a certain convention on interaction with the database? And documentation on that? 2c) Is there an existing convention on reading the Galaxy database, so that I can produce the spreadsheet? Documentation? 2d) Our lab would call this functionality Rover, since it will roam Galaxy looking for and retrieving data (not really a question, but I thought they came up with a good name!)