Hello James, The Tabular data type does not allow for this as it would be very difficult to enforce consistency across datasets. Many tabular datasets include proper headers ( start with a "#" character ), while many do not. However, many formats sub-class Tabular, and probably the best way to do this would be to introduce support for a new datatype in your local instance that is a subclass of Tabular that provides this functionality. Greg Von Kuster Galaxy Development Team James Casbon wrote:

Deaf galaxy-user,

So you can have tabular datasets, and you can add a datatype that subclasses tabular and adds column definitions.

Is there a way of using tabular data with column headings without defining the datatype, i.e. getting galaxy to recognise that first line is a header and should be used as column titles?

thanks, James _______________________________________________ galaxy-user mailing list galaxy-user@bx.psu.edu http://mail.bx.psu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/galaxy-user