This is definitely something we're looking to implement in Galaxy. I started working on a proof of concept a while back for boxing workflows up as tools, but I have not had a chance to finish it yet.

What Thon suggests in terms of a simple copy/paste is interesting, and probably a far simpler first step that I'll look into. I could imagine a configurable set of 'component' workflows that you could click and have the steps plopped into your existing workflow.

-Dannon

On Mar 6, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Ann Black wrote:

Hello -

I would also like the +1 this feature. I currently use the "clone" feature of a workflow to make a copy and modify, but if I change the original workflow, I think have to remember which workflows I cloned into and hand modify them as well. If we had the ability to re-use workflows, then we could develop modules that could be re-used in larger workflows.

Thanks much for the consideration,

Ann

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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:14:25 +0000 (GMT) From: thondeboer@me.com To: Galaxy-dev galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu Subject: [galaxy-dev] Using complete workflow in another workflow Message-ID: 7d9b3791-1822-e517-b5b9-e1ba1579b99e@me.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"

Hi,

How far along are we about thinking about being able to re-use a complete workflow as a workflow step in another workflow?

This would really allow us to modularize certain aspects of the analyses and would allow us to re-use a workflow in another.

Barring that, a simple copy/paste from one workflow into another would also really help...

Any plans in that direction?

Thanks

Thon?