Hi Nathan Do you have many tools working with those samples or just a few? If you only have a limited, predefined set of tools you might wanna consider adding the sample selection into the tool. You can use the from_file, or from_data_table options to dynamically create sample selection list. You can even drill down a hierarchical list. Have a look at ~/tools/annotation_profiler/annotation_profiler.xml which uses the file ~/tool-data/annotation_profiler_options.xml All you need to do is keeping the file in sync with the directory structure of your samples directory Regards, Hans-Rudolf On 09/30/2013 09:48 PM, Martin Čech wrote:

Hi Nathan,

Dannon answered similar question few days ago:

There's an import mechanism in libraries that'll allow you to simply link to the file on disk without copy/upload. I believe the "example_watch_folder.py" sample script (in the distribution) does just this via the API, if you want an example.

This might be what you are looking for.

Martin

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Cole, Nathan (NIH/NCI) [C] <nathan.cole@nih.gov <mailto:nathan.cole@nih.gov>> wrote:

Hello, we’ve set up a local Galaxy instance in our genotyping and next-gen sequencing lab with local Apache LDAP (AD) integration, NFS mounts to a large NAS, and cluster integration coming. Do to the high volume of samples and staff that will be using the system, I want to set up data libraries (without copying to Galaxy). This is obviously no problem the first time, however I was wondering if there was a way to make a library, added from a system path, be dynamic so that it would stay synchronized with the underlying file structure?____

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If a try dynamic library is not possible, is there a method for adding files to an existing library via that same system path that would not duplicate all of the original files in the data library?____

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I did some scouring of the list and found some old unanswered questions and some things tangentially related topics, but I was unable to find a true answer or solution to my problem. Any information on how to do the tasks above or other solutions to provide the same functionality would be greatly appreciated.____

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Thanks,____

Nathan____

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