Thank you Peter. That's great to know.
On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Peter Cock wrote:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Beale, Holly (NIH/NHGRI) [F] holly.beale@nih.gov wrote:
Hi all --
I'd like to know what programs are used when I run a tool on my data. Ideally I'd also like to know what parameters are passed to command line tools.
The short answer is you can't, other than by reading the tool's documentation (ideally within Galaxy below the options), and/or reading the tool's source code (the XML file plus any scripts).
Some Galaxy tools are simple wrappers for a single command line tool, in which case it is usually clear how the parameters offered to you in the Galaxy interface translate to matching command line arguments. Such Galaxy tools should make this clear in their documentation, along with giving you clear citation information for the underlying tools.
Other Galaxy tools are complex scripts/tools that may call several other command line tools internally
So it depends.
Peter