Hi Greg!

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Hi all!

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I'd like to define 'blastxml' to 'tabular' conversion within Galaxy so that this can be used automatically (e.g. Tools expecting just tabular data would have converted BLAST XML files listed in the drop down). The functionality to do this exists in my Python tool 'blastxml_to_tabular' currently in the 'ncbi_blast_plus' repository, which might have to move into 'blast_datatypes' for this to work. http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/devteam/ncbi_blast_plus http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/devteam/blast_datatypes

I've skimmed over the instructions here, but would like to look at a couple of real examples to make sure I've understood: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2013-February/013434.html

Are there any good examples of 3rd party Galaxy datatypes defining conversion like this?

To add some more question to that topic. How to hide the converter from the tool-panel, when its available within Galaxy?

This is a known issues, and there is a Trello card for it here. I'll be working on this issues this week and the fix should be included in the next Galaxy release.

https://trello.com/card/toolshed-fix-the-process-that-currently-adds-entries...

Great!

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And is it possible to use third-party tool-shed dependencies in data-type definition files? I have a data-type that is really hard to sniff. I would like to use an external library for that purpose.

Including tool dependency definitions inside datatype_conf.xml files is not supported. Can you clarify this a bit? It would be good to get some details of the specific components you're dealing with so I can get a clear picture of what may be required here.

I'm developing datatypes for chemical structures [1], one of these datatypes is called SMILES (smi) and its mainly a string that defines atoms, like "CC(=O)OC1=CC=CC=C1C(=O)O" for aspirin. Its hard to sniff that datatype. The only good solution I can image is to try to read such a structure and if I succeed and can create a molecule out of a random string, I assume its a valid SMILES string. Do that for the first 10 lines or so should be sufficient to define the datatype as 'smi'. OpenBabel is a library that can read such string and convert them, there are also python bindings. All of my converters are using OpenBabel, so I included it as repository_dependency. The problem is now, that if I want to use the python bindings from openbabel for the datatype definition file (molecules.py) its not available, because the path is not set. At least thats what I assume. Because if I install OpenBabel globally it works just fine.

To the original question from Peter, is there a way to integrate converters within galaxy? My converters only appear in the tool-pane?

Thanks and a happy weekend! Bjoern

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Thanks, Bjoern

Thanks!

Greg Von Kuster

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