Including a tool in a section of one of the tool configs that populates the Galaxy tool panel is only relevant to the Galaxy instance, not a Galaxy tool shed. If a user installs a tool shed repository from a tool shed to their local Galaxy instance, they can choose a specific section label in which to load the tool into their tool panel at the time of installation. See http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed#Automatic_installation_of_Galaxy_tool_... On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Aaron Quinlan wrote:

Hi Greg,

In a previous email (below) you mentioned that the tool_conf.xml is not necessary for tool shed repos. Consequently, is there no way to add section labels when a repo includes multiple tools? For example, I'd like to have section labels like the Picard tools have (e.g., "CONVERSION", "QC METRICS...") on the main site.

Is this possible somehow?

Best, Aaron

On Nov 23, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

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Here is my current repo including just one tool:

http://testtoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repository/browse_repositories?sort=name&f-email=aaronquinlan%40gmail.com&f-deleted=False&webapp=community&operation=view_or_manage_repository&id=9ef275703ecd32f4

This looks good, but a couple of comments:

1. There is no longer any use for suite_config.xml - it was used in the old version of the tool shed, but is no longer used.

2. Including tool_conf.xml is not necessary - nothing is done with it.

3. Support for data types used by your tools that are not included in the Galaxy distribution will be available soon, so if your tools use them, you can include code files that include classes that support them. More information about this will soon be available in the tool shed wiki, but let me know if you have questions about this. Your current tool doesn't fall into this category.

4. Make sure that your tool configs include the <requirements> tag sets if the tool has a dependency. This is the tag set that will enable the use of the future fabric scripts discussed above. See the section of our tool config syntax wiki for details: http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Tools/Tool%20Config%20Syntax#A.3Crequirement...

Greg Von Kuster Galaxy Development Team greg@bx.psu.edu