Hi, Our team at the University of Oslo is building a Life Science Portal based on Galaxy. We operate several standalone instances and we have the necessary sysadmin experience, but we really need to implement a more secure file upload mechanism than FTP (we do not like to send cleartext password credentials in the open ), and we understand that Galaxy does not integrate an upload method other than FTP with reference to this screencast: http://screencast.g2.bx.psu.edu/quickie_17_ftp_upload/flow.html One possible solution for this is to setup an SFTP upload server with a huge scratch space, that runs the SFTP upload gateway on one end and an IP restricted FTP server on the other, so that users can then upload/index the SFTP uploaded data into their Galaxy session via the URL upload field. This two step process might be a bit cumbersome for some of our users and we are looking for ways to simplify it. Do you have best recipes for SFTP/Aspera upload gateway integration to Galaxy? We would welcome advise on that matter. GM Best regards, -- -- George Magklaras PhD RHCE no: 805008309135525 Head of IT/Senior Systems Engineer Biotechnology Center of Oslo and the Norwegian Center for Molecular Medicine/ Vitenskapelig Databehandling (VD) - Research Computing Services - USIT EMBnet TMPC Chair http://folk.uio.no/georgios http://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/hpc/abel/ Tel: +47 22840535