Martin and Enis;
Maybe it would be a good idea then if we made some sort of a 'standard distribution' for desirable genomes and agreed on where they get put on an EBS volume to be able to piggyback off of each other? Discussing it at the meeting sounds great... [...] I will prepare a list of tools and indices that are used frequently here and we can discuss about the standard distribution at Boston.
This sounds great. A community effort to establish a standard distribution would be perfect. So far I've been using an automated Fabric script: http://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/blob/master/galaxy/galaxy_fabfile.py to do the builds which should make it easy to add new genomes and indexes. Let us know what would be most useful and we'll put it together. Looking forward to talking more in Boston, Brad