Dear list,

I started a little toy project (.. aka procrastination) that I would like to share here. It produces a graph connecting tool ids and input/output formats. As input it takes an arbitrary number of tool xml files

https://github.com/bernt-matthias/mb-galaxy-tools/tree/master/tool-io-graph

I could imagine some use cases:

- could be nice for auto-generation of the documentation of a single tool (planemo?) - for tool suites one could easily check if the all tools are connected (I would expect this) - one could explore how tools could be plugged together, find out which tools generate a needed format

currently it outputs dot formatted graphs.

I can easily see some extensions

- filter for subsets of tools / formats - get the surrounding of a tool (e.g. all nodes in distance 2, 4, ...) - filter paths from an available input to a desired output format

Cheers, Matthias