Hi Kostas, I recently talked with Bodo Vossen from MPI who has created this functionality and made available: https://bitbucket.org/Bodolski/galaxy-central-adding-tools He added this functionality to the Admin page of Galaxy which allows to add tools without restarting the server. Unfortunately I have not yet tested it myself, but it seemed to work 'out-of-the-box'. Cheers, Jelle On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Kostas Karasavvas < kostas.karasavvas@nbic.nl> wrote:

Hi all,

I am working on a way to add/install tools to galaxy in a more automated way.

I need that for the galaxy-taverna interoperability work we are doing (https://trac.nbic.nl/elabfactory/wiki/eGalaxy). The generator produces a galaxy tool (.zip or an .xml + .rb) that I want to install as easily as possible. Since, this is sth that other people might be interested I was thinking of generalising it.

The idea is to create a script (background process) where we specify an association between a galaxy tool directory and a galaxy section. Every time something is copied in that directory it will be picked up by the script, which will check if it is a valid tool, and add it to tool_conf.xml in the specified section (+optionally restart the server).

I am assuming that people would have already worked on/thought of something similar for their own needs. So, my questions are:

a) anyone knows if sth similar already exists and how reusable it is, and b) does it sound like something useful (apparently, to people that manage tools frequently!)

Cheers, Kostas ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at:

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