On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Jennifer Jackson <jen@bx.psu.edu> wrote:

Hi Peter,

It looks to me like there are versions both, with the Tool Shed version having the more recent date stamp. But if those extra functions are not needed, then yes, you are correct, the version included in the distribution would be enough.

Please send corrections if I have any of this wrong, so that David gets the best information,

Thanks Peter!

Jen

Hi Jen, I'm not sure which date stamps you are looking at, since I think it is the other way round. The NCBI BLAST+ wrappers shipped with Galaxy are currently at version 0.0.11, both in galaxy-central and galaxy-dist, dated 12 July 2011, e.g. here is the current XML file for the BLASTN wrapper: https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/src/default/tools/ncbi_blast_plu... https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist/src/default/tools/ncbi_blast_plus/n... Over on the Tool Shed, Edward Kirton has a forked copy of a much older version of these wrappers at v0.0.1. The push date of 7 Jun 2011 is probably from the toolshed migration, I believe the true date is well before that. Edward added support for using local BLAST databases as a new Galaxy datatype, along with wrappers for makeblastdb and dustmasker. Assuming these have proved useful, it would make sense to merge these changes into the main BLAST+ wrappers. I have CC'd the galaxy-dev mailing list (and Edward) which is probably a better place to discuss this than the galaxy-user list. Peter