The Toolfactory and these tutorials are for developers and researchers learning about Galaxy, who routinely develop their own analysis scripts using
bash, Python, Perl, Rscript or other common scientific scripting languages. The tutorials show a convenient way to bridge the gap between a
working command line script and a new tool that “wraps” that script so users can use it like any other tool in Galaxy.
The ToolFactory is a Galaxy tool. Tools are constructed through the normal Galaxy interface when it is run. It is distributed as the ToolFactory Appliance,
ready to run on a developer linux workstation using Docker. Generated tools are immediately installed and ready to run so you can see
what the end user will see. Jobs can be re-run to edit and update generated tools, so Galaxy becomes an integrated development environment for Galaxy tools.
A Hello Galaxy! demonstration using the ToolFactory is available if you’d like to see a walk-through of some of
the hands-on material in this tutorial. You can see whether it looks useful for your work and decide whether to read the material below.
This first tutorial is a slow introduction. For some developers, it may be too slow and the second tutorial may be a better place to start. This one steps
in some detail through the process of using the ToolFactory
to generate Hello World! style simple demonstration Galaxy tools.
The reader will soon learn if it might be adapted to their work. If so, an Advanced ToolFactory tutorial is
available if the material here is relevant to your needs and you would like to learn more details about the different kinds of tools and features the ToolFactory offers.
Experienced galaxy tool developers already have specialised tools and training so may not gain much from this material.
Users new to Galaxy from other scientific disciplines not yet familiar with the manual tool development process,
may find the ToolFactory appliance useful for familiarising themselves with tool development in Galaxy.
Tools, tool wrappers and the ToolFactory in Galaxy.
Tools are the fundamental building blocks for analyses in Galaxy. Thousands are available in the project tool library from
many different kinds of science. Galaxy
tools can be created from almost any Linux command line software packages or interpreter scripts. What happens
at tool execution is decoupled from the framework itself, so the framework is indifferent to scientific discipline or coding language.
This is one reason for rapid uptake in new data intensive scientific areas. In many cases, growing sets of discipline specific tools are attracting
whole new communities of scientists into the Galaxy community.
Tool execution is tightly constrained and secured. The only things that can be changed
before execution are tool form exposed user-controlled settings, and data input selections. Everything else is fixed.
This is ideal for non-programmer Galaxy users who rely on prepared tools for their work. Tools are
utterly predictable, to the point of being about as reproducible as any useful complex computing component is likely to be.
This is one of the strengths of the Galaxy framework for users requiring reproducible and shareable scientific analyses.
Galaxy Interactive Tools and Interactive Environments (GxIT/GIE)
In contrast to tools, GIE allow unconstrained scripting in a Galaxy environment. They offer complete freedom from the constraints of existing tools for
appropriately skilled researchers and developers, because they allow code to run inside Galaxy that is not available in any existing tool.
These can be shared and reused and GIE can now be run in workflows.
If a shareable tool that performs exactly the same functions as a GIE script is needed, the code can be extracted and turned into a parameterised command line script.
Any functional script can be turned into a typical Galaxy tool.
Pathways from scripts to tools
Any command line script that runs correctly with sample test data input files and parameter settings can be turned into a Galaxy tool.
These may be derived from notebook scripts that have been consolidated and rewritten to take positional or argparse style parameters and tested
in a shell using small data input files. Alternatively, skilled users can develop scripts and test them using small input data files on the command line
without using Galaxy.
The Galaxy developers support extensive software infrastructure for manually creating new tools including Planemo and the new Galaxy language server.
These are complex and powerful with substantial
learning curves but can be used to turn almost any software package into a tool.
For those new to Galaxy, in many simple cases, it may be possible to generate a new tool “wrapping” a script in a few minutes, using a
specialised Galaxy tool for developers that generates tools.
This tutorial introduces that unusual tool.
The ToolFactory Appliance
The ToolFactory implements an automated, form driven wrapper code generator, and an installer for newly generated tools so you can try them straight away
in Galaxy. The ToolFactory is distributed as a Docker appliance and can be “popped up” and ready to run in a few minutes - well, 5 or 10 perhaps.
It is a private local desktop Galaxy server, ideal for tinkering and experimentation, learning how the Galaxy server works
and for developing new tools for new kinds of scientists using Galaxy.
Any Galaxy tool from the toolshed can be installed and used.
Any simple script can have a tool wrapper generated and installed as a new tool in the Appliance.
Newly generated tools appear in the tool menu after a refresh, and can be viewed and used as the user will see them.
Tool generation jobs can be rerun using the galaxy-refresh button on the history item after editing the form to make changes to the tool the user will see in Galaxy.
Documentation on connecting the appliance to a cluster for getting real work done with newly generated tools can be found at that repository.
It can be backed up and persisted for as long as required, or it can be treated as a throw-away instance and deleted when no longer needed.
There is almost zero technical friction if Docker and docker-compose are already installed. Only time is required.
Usefulness will depend on sufficient hardware. Plenty of cores, RAM and disk storage are needed.
On a modern workstation or well-endowed laptop, it will perform well out of the box.
It will struggle on older consumer hardware with limited RAM and CPU capacity.
It is suitable only for development in a private deployment.
Production is best done on a professionally maintained service, but please, not a public one.
The Appliance was developed for programmers who need scripts they write turned in to new Galaxy tools for their own use and if sufficiently useful,
for others to share. Any user comfortable with scientific or general scripting languages on a Linux command
line may find it useful if they ever need a Galaxy tool that wraps a working script. Linux command line utilities and scripting language interpreters supported by Conda can be used.
Some Conda packages can also be used without a script, but the focus is on scripts.
Generated tools pass Planemo lint (if they take an input - some of the test tools do not!), and are functionally indistinguishable from equivalent
manually written tools. A second tool can be used to finalise ToolFactory untested archives. It uses Planemo.
The tested toolshed archives contain a test based on the test data provided at tool generation.
Working generated examples using bash, Python, Rscript, Lisp, Prolog, Perl and sed are provided and described below. Many demonstrate ToolFactory features.
All can be updated and changed easily, supporting learning by experimenting. More useful tools can be developed and tested using more complex scripts and as many inputs, outputs
and user supplied parameters as needed by that script.
If you are a scientist/programmer or software developer new to Galaxy and new to the dark arts of Galaxy tool building, this tutorial may be of help.
It introduces an automated way to convert any useful script into a toolshed ready tool, quickly insideGalaxy.
Planemo is recommended for developers who will focus on Galaxy tools on the command line. Outstanding documentation.
Widely used. Requires relatively little time to figure out - Galaxy tool syntax takes longer.
No GUI. Command line only. Can create archives with additional steps.
Need to pass all i/o and parameter details at once on the command line.
Takes longer to learn to use and less accessible to many users than a form driven GUI might be.
Manual XML editing required for selects and collections.
See the recommended next steps at the end of this tutorial for Planemo related training.
The ToolFactory uses planemo to generate test data and to run the test in the companion planemo_test tool.
Many Unix utilities (sed, awk…) are already available as IUC tools.
They are generic in the sense that a script is supplied at run time by the tool user.
The Lisp demonstration uses that model, but it may be desirable that one very specific script is “wrapped” as a reproducible tool.
The user supplies only those I/O and parameter values specified on the ToolFactory form.
Nothing else can be changed - just like with most Galaxy tools.
Choose whichever one fits best for the task at hand.
Hello World! with the ToolFactory Appliance
A Hello World!Galaxy tool is a good place to start, just like any other new programming environment. It requires planning
and preparation. The ToolFactory can automate the generation of a wrapper, but the developer must supply a working script and
configure the inputs, outputs, user supplied parameters and metadata for the tool to be useful.
Planning the new tool
A very simple bash script can be used to say “hello” but we make it a little more like a real
Galaxy tool by adding a text box so the user may designate whatever they want to add after that
such as “Hello, Galaxy Training Network”.
Save the following sample as hello.sh:
Input: Starting bash script: Hello World
#!/bin/bashecho"Hello $1!"
Test it on the command line by running:
bash hello.sh ToolFactory
In this case, ToolFactory is the first command line parameter. Hello ToolFactory! should appear as the output.
Once the script works and produces the expected outputs, the next step is to plan how the generated tool form should look to the user when run as a Galaxy tool.
Tool definition involves configuring the major sections of the ToolFactory form for the new tool.
The following information about a script is needed:
Conda dependency requirements
History data inputs
History outputs - data and collections
User controlled parameters
For the hello tool case:
There are no dependencies. Bash is always available and version is not important usually.
This tool requires no history input files.
It produces one text output file.
The tool form should show a single input text field for the user to supply.
Executing the tool is expected to write the combined string to a new history item.
At this point, the plan for this new tool is:
The user should see a helpfully labelled text input field on the tool form, and the usual tool execute button.
When the tool executes, that text should be passed to the script running under bash, as the first positional parameter.
The script output should appear as a new output file in the history.
It should contain the expected decorated input text.
Galaxy tools need a test.
A simple test would be to supply a default value for the text string, run the tool and check that the output is correct.
Trivial, but an excellent model worth studying in detail because it is easily extended to do
more useful tasks. This is the simplest case of a very useful generic model for Galaxy tools. More useful tools will require input files and parameters, as discussed below.
Bash is used here but any scripting language available in Conda could probably be used.
Putting the plan into action using the ToolFactory
The form collects all the information needed for a new Galaxy tool. It is long and complex as a result, particularly with many repeated form elements for more complex tools.
Much of what is collected is used to construct a command line for the script when the generated tool runs.
Other information such as the name and dependencies are needed to construct the relevant
sections of the generated XML file in the toolshed archive. The ToolFactory form configured to generate the Hello example can be viewed below.
Figure 1: The first part of the form collects the new tool name and dependencies to be installed. In this case, no Conda dependency is used. bash can be specified as a conda dependency, but it is not very version dependent and usually available. Reproducibility is not an issue for this trivial example. When it is, specify the dependencies and their versions here and the generated tool will always use them. If run in a shell, the bash script echo "Hello $1" in the text box will emit a string that includes the first command line parameter - such as "Hello Galaxy Training Network" This will be collected from STDOUT (configured below) into a new history output file (named and configured below). Positional parameters are chosen so the first parameter on the command line will be emitted when the script runs.Figure 2: The second section shows the new generated history output. It uses the special name STDOUT so the tool will take whatever the bash script writes and create a new text file called Hello_output. When the test is generated, the pass criterion is that the default value Galaxy Training Network should appear as the message in hello_output. no difference. Other criteria including sim_size are available for the test applied to each output file. There is no limit (other than your patience) to the number of new generated history outputs. Note that this example has no history input files. Again, any number of these can be specified on the form using the repeat.Figure 3: The third section shows the form settings for the user supplied parameter to be passed in to the bash script on the command line. It will be the first positional parameter because the ordinal position is 1. Argparse parameters are shown in other samples. The help and label text for each input file and user defined parameter will appear on the generated tool form for the user so make them informative. This is where you can change the default from "World" to "Galaxy Training Network" on the sample provided and regenerate it to make a new tool later in the tutorial.
The generated tool XML appears in the history after the ToolFactory is executed and the tool itself is installed in the ToolFactory Generated Tools submenu.
Text on the form is specified in the XML and it all comes from the ToolFactory form.
Note how text from the form appears in the generated tool XML
<toolname="hello_toolshed"id="hello_toolshed"version="0.01"><!--Source in git at: https://github.com/fubar2/toolfactory--><!--Created by planemo@galaxyproject.org at 22/01/2021 13:48:27 using the Galaxy Tool Factory.--><description>Says hello</description><stdio><exit_coderange="1:"level="fatal"/></stdio><version_command><![CDATA[echo "0.01"]]></version_command><command><![CDATA[bash
$runme
"$sayhelloto" > $Hello_output]]>
</command><configfiles><configfilename="runme"><![CDATA[
echo "Hello $1"
]]></configfile></configfiles><inputs><paramlabel="Say hello to"help=""value="Galaxy Training Network!!"type="text"name="sayhelloto"argument="sayhelloto"/></inputs><outputs><dataname="Hello_output"format="txt"label="Hello_output"hidden="false"/></outputs><tests><test><outputname="Hello_output"value="Hello_output_sample"compare="diff"lines_diff="0"/><paramname="sayhelloto"value="Galaxy Training Network!!"/></test></tests><help><![CDATA[
**What it Does**
ToolFactory demonstration - hello world in Galaxy
------
Script::
echo "Hello $1"
]]></help><citations><citationtype="doi">10.1093/bioinformatics/bts573</citation></citations></tool>
Which, when seen loaded into Galaxy looks like an ordinary tool:
Figure 4: The form displayed when the generated Hello tool is executed is below. The user sees a text box to enter any string. When executed, it will be echoed to a new history file called Hello_output
When a user runs the tool and enters some text in the text box, the decorated output will appear in a new history text dataset.
This may not seem very exciting but it provides a useful pattern that can easily be adapted and extended.
The script could do something far more interesting and could take unlimited input datasets, user configurable parameters and can produce as many outputs as needed in the history.
If you are not yet familiar with the basics of Galaxy tools covered in the
tool integration training material, the example form and XML
will be confusing. You may gain more by reviewing the introductory part of that material, and then coming back here?
It’s a lot to learn and it is complicated. While a form driven code generator can hide much of the complexity of generating the code,
the user must supply valid inputs for the code to be useful.
Comment: Limits and scope
It works best wrapping simple R/Bash/Python and other interpreted scripts, with few user supplied parameters and a few input and output files.
Scripts are easier than some Conda packages
They can easily be modified to respond to default empty parameters as if they had not been passed.
As a result, advanced tool building elements such as conditionals and related tricks requiring manual coding, can often be avoided.
On the other hand, many Conda dependencies will require XML conditionals or other tool XML constructs that are not easy to generate automatically.
While some simple requirements may be manageable, complex ones will not be suitable for the ToolFactory.
Compared to the more usual shell and a text editor, The ToolFactory in Galaxy is a slow and clumsy way to debugging scripts.
Starting a new ToolFactory tool with a know good command line and data is strongly recommended. You will know exactly what to expect from the tool test for a first sanity check.
Corrolary: Unless there is a working script that needs to be wrapped into a toolshed-ready Galaxy tool, the ToolFactory is of little use.
Generated tools are untested and not recommended for sharing.
Testing is easy - use the Planemo test tool. It may take a while to run depending on Conda dependency installation. It will return the tested tool to your history and a report collection.
The planemo_test tool creates a new tested toolshed archive ready for sharing, and a collection with reports.
The Planemo test report is in the collection with a lint report and a log of the entire run.
Please check the html report to make sure it passed before sharing your new tool.
Installation
Hands-on: Launching the Appliance
Install Docker following the appropriate instructions for your platform.
Clone it or download the zip and unzip it somewhere handy - such as ~/toolfactory-galaxy-server-main
Change to the compose directory, pull the images from quay.io and launch it
Warning: `Pull` the images first as shown below to save time.
If they are not found locally (docker images), the first time you run docker-compose up, docker will build them, taking much, much, much longer.
Input: Bash: Installing the docker files, pulling and launching the Appliance
git clone https://github.com/fubar2/toolfactory-galaxy-server
cd toolfactory-galaxy-server/compose
mkdir export
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up
First time start takes 5-10 minutes after the pull completes.
Watching the first startup process activity log is highly recommended.
Subsequent starts will be much faster.
The docker containers may not fit or run well on an underpowered machine.
Multiple CPU cores, 8GB of RAM and fast disk are needed for an enjoyable appliance.
This Appliance is recommended for use only as a private disposable desktop development environment.
The Appliance keeps no backup of any work.
The export directory has most of the changeable parts of the Appliance.
The user can backup the export directory if desired.
A professionally managed Galaxy server is a much safer bet for preserving real research.
The Appliance is disposable if development goes awry.
Even then, secure your Appliance against potential miscreants on the local or public internet.
Change your admin password
Save any useful generated material from the export directory or from the running Appliance.
Delete the ...compose/export directory - you will need sudo rm -rf export/* and perhaps sudo rm -rf export/.d*
Then you can delete the parent toolfactory-galaxy-server directory
Use docker system prune and respond y to the prompt to clean up any damaged or dangling images and containers.
Use docker volume prune and respond y to the prompt to remove the shared galaxy-central and /etc/galaxy volumes.
Remove the 2 pulled quay.io/fubar2/toolfactory* docker images in the usual way.
Your appliance should run a local Galaxy on port 8080 of your workstation after about 5 minutes of activity on the logs.
Login with the username admin@galaxy.org and the password password
This is obviously insecure but convenient and easily changed at first login.
The container /export directory is mounted locally at compose/export so you can find your generated and tested tools for sharing.
At first login you will find the demonstration history ready to explore if you waited for all the Conda activity to die down
It takes a minute or two to import because the dependencies for the ToolFactory must first be installed.
If it’s not there, you can import it manually from Zenodo as described in the Welcome page text.
To explore an example, open the toolshed XML history item by clicking on the name, and select the galaxy-refreshrerun button from the expanded view
The form that generated that tool will appear for you to examine
Edit the form - add parameters and change the script to suit - and rerun to create an updated tool. The history has previous versions.
Change the tool ID to change the tool name and generate a different tool. Generating a same-name tool will overwrite the old version.
When you run the ToolFactory for the first time inside the container and whenever you run a new tool with new dependencies, it will require some time to build the conda environment.
Check for Conda or other processes if things seem stuck.
Exploring the ToolFactory in the running Appliance.
The best way to explore the kinds of tasks that can be achieved with simple scripts is to take a look at each sample tool.
Note how the various options have been configured and what kinds of scripts this could be used for in your work.
The example script can be swapped out for another one known to work and additional new parameters added to suit, to extend the toy examples and create tools of use to your users.
Change the tool name when you do this on the newly edited form, then press execute
The new wrapper XML will appear
The new tool will be installed in the ToolFactory Generated Tools submenu.
If the tool name is not changed before re-generating a tool, the original installed tool will be updated with the new configuration.
Hello World!
Hands-on: Building the Hello World example
Run ToolFactory with the following parameters:
“Dependencies, optional script and script interpreter”
“Interpreter for the script”: bash
“Script for executable above to interpret”: echo "Hello $1"
“Data file input, output and settings forming the executable or script command line”
“Command line parameter passing method to use”: positional
“Input and output files”
param-repeat“Insert Outputs”
“Name for this output to appear in new history”: Hello_output
“Select the datatype for this output”: txt
“Position”: STDOUT
“Arguments”
param-repeat“Insert Command Line Parameters”
“Choose the name for this parameter - MUST not be blank!”: say_hello_to
“Enter this parameter’s label for the form”: Say hello to
“Positional ordinal | argparse argument name”: 1
Comment: First time use involves a long pause in some installations
The first job takes longer in some installation scenarios because the ToolFactory dependencies are installed before the tool can run.
Execute
Explore the outputs - do they match what you expected?
Refresh the page - click the home icon (or the “Analysis” tab) - to see the new tool in the ToolFactory Generated Tools section of the tools menu.
Run the tool that has been added - Select the new tool and examine the form. Check that all the changes are as they should be.
Test the tool using the planemo_test tool from the ToolFactory tool section. This may take 5 or 10 minutes if this is the first test on a new appliance. Subsequent startup will be quicker.
Check the lint report
View the planemo test report - is it ok? See if you can open up the details hidden when you first view the page.
Take a look at what Planemo did in the report log. It is very, very long and usually involves popping up and tearing down a Galaxy server twice.
This can take time, particularly if Conda dependencies are required as they can take a long time to initialise.
The Development Cycle
Test your script on the command line and confirm it works.
In the appliance, start a new history and upload all the input samples used on the command line.
Open the ToolFactory tool form.
Define the tool metadata, dependencies, interpreter and paste the script.
Add the required history inputs using the small samples as examples.
Specify all the output files to be created in the user’s history.
Add any user adjustable command line parameters such as text fields. Look at the samples to see how the ToolFactory form can be used.
Execute the tool when the form is completed.
When the job is complete, refresh the page (Home icon or Analysis tab). The new tool will be found in the ToolFactory Generated Tools section, ready to run.
Run the new tool and check that it does what you expect, or re-generate after adjusting the form settings as needed.
If it needs any changes, open the XML history item created when the tool was generated and use the galaxy-refresh rerun button to
recreate the ToolFactory form as it was when you last ran it. Adjust as needed and use the tool formExecute button to run the ToolFactory again with updated settings.
Rinse, repeat.
When everything is to your satisfaction, start the planemo_test tool in the ToolFactory menu and select the tool XML to finalise.
A Planemo test will be run
Time will depend on Conda dependencies. If none a minute or so.
A new tested archive, Planemo test report, Planemo lint output and a log of the test run will be in a new collection in the history when the job finishes.
The tested toolshed archive can be downloaded from the history or found in ...compose/export/galaxy/tested_TF_archives/[tool name]
Warning: generating a tool with the tool id mytool will overwrite the installed version of any previously generated ToolFactory tool with the same id.
Persisted jobs in user histories allow previous versions to be recreated if this is not wanted.
Galaxy can be used as an Integrated Development Environment for tools - clunky but oddly satisfying. Note this is distinct from debugging the script - that is not at all satisfying in Galaxy unless you like waiting for jobs to finish. A shell is much better for that.
Figure 5:Galaxy can be used as a tool development environment for users who can write their own scripts as shown in this process overview slide.
Hello World: Continued
Hands-on: Modifying the Hello World example
Rerun the output of your previous job, and make the following changes
“Dependencies, optional script and script interpreter”
“Script for executable above to interpret”: echo "Hello $1"; echo "Goodbye $2";
“Data file input, output and settings forming the executable or script command line”
“Arguments”
Add a second param-repeat“Insert Command Line Parameters”
“Choose the name for this parameter - MUST not be blank!”: say_bye_to
“Enter this parameter’s label for the form”: Say bye to
“Positional ordinal | argparse argument name”: 2
Hello Collections!
Hands-on: Building a File Splitter
Run ToolFactory with the following parameters:
“New tool ID and title for outputs”: file_splitter
“Dependencies, optional script and script interpreter”
“Data file input, output and settings forming the executable or script command line”
“Command line parameter passing method to use”: positional
“Input and output files”
param-repeat“Insert Inputs”
“Select an input file from your history”: Choose any XML file from your history, we’ll use this as an example
“Select the datatype for this output”: txt
“This will become the user prompt for the form so please make it informative”: File to split
“Positional: ordinal integer. Argparse: argument name. STDIN if the executable/script expects it”: 1
param-repeat“Insert Output Collections”
“Select the kind of collection for this output”: List
“Label for this collection”: File Parts
“Arguments”
param-repeat“Insert Command Line Parameters”
“Choose the name for this parameter - MUST not be blank!”: lines
“Select the type for this parameter”: Integer
“Enter this parameter’s default integer value”: 4
“Enter this parameter’s label for the form”: Number of lines in each split file
“Positional ordinal | argparse argument name”: 2
Execute
Refresh the Galaxy Page and locate your collections_test tool
Run the tool, selecting any text file in your history, e.g. the XML output from the ToolFactory that created this tool.
You should see a collection filled with files named aa to ao (or so), each with 4 lines from your file.
This is presented as a motivating example. It is up to you to imagine what else you might be able to accomplish with collection outputs!
You could extend this example to split a .fastq file which could speed up your processing, or you could use collections to store extra images or plots produced by your tool.
They are also a convenient way to keep outputs together that are unlikely to be used downstream in a workflow, such as reports and images
that a user might want to be able to easily view if they want without cluttering up the history.
Warning: Collection Testing
The default generated test for output collections always passes because it doesn’t test anything.
Supplying a test over-ride is recommended for collections.
For a real test, one or more expected tags must be provided so the test really does test something.
Done!
Hands-on: To safely shut the appliance down
Type Ctrl-C in the terminal where you ran docker-compose. Most things will still be there next time you start it.
Explore the export/galaxy/tools/TFtools directory. There you should find directories with the tools you created during this tutorial, as well as some others that are pre-loaded.
Limits, workarounds and value proposition
The ToolFactory Appliance is a slightly clumsy but useable way to create, test and maintain Galaxy tools in a web GUI.
The ToolFactory tool is an automated code generator installed in the appliance tool menu
No generator can replace manual editing by a skilled developer other than in constrained simple cases.
These are common enough in the daily work of most data intensive scientific fields to make a tool generator potentially worth keeping handy.
For simple scripts and appropriate Conda packages, a professional Galaxy tool developer can probably do it quickly by hand, but those skills take time to acquire
and are not widely available, particularly in scientific fields coming to Galaxy.
Tools can have command-override and test-override pasted in as in one of the BWA samples.
This can solve some of the limitations but if it is needed, it might be better to prepare the wrapper manually if a skilled developer is available.
Any logic in the <command> section can probably always be replaced by equivalent code in a script at the cost of time and effort compared to templating.
Other aspects of tool logic such as output filters based on other parameter values can only be implemented in the wrapper document, not in a tool script.
The ToolFactory can help new scientists and developers to quickly get some simple tools working for their colleagues while awaiting help with the complex ones.
This tutorial is based on the work of thousands of individual contributers to the Galaxy project over the last 15 years or so.
Thanks all! It has been a lot of fun.
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- review and contribution to the tutorial and associated code.
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