Oren Livne wrote:
Dear All,
We have a lot of sequencing data files whose locations and identifiers are managed by our home-grown webapp. We'd like to enable users to single-sign-on from our webapp into Galaxy (we will be using open ID on both systems for that). When the user opens a Galaxy window, we'd like them to be able to access the data files on our system which they have permissions to see.
How should we go about that without copying or moving files? Should we make a new data library, or (preferably) create our identifier service and make it a remote data source/library that galaxy can see and that can be browsed like other data libraries? Is there an API we should write our service against, or wrap files with appropriate galaxy meta data, etc.?
Hi Oren,
Without knowing the full architecture it's a bit hard to say what the best solution is. However, Galaxy's API does allow for "upload" from locations on the filesystem or from an FTP/HTTP/HTTPS url to a data library, so you should be able to use this to do what you're talking about.
Thanks, --nate
Thank you so much, Oren