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ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir
Background: Bioinformaticians routinely use multiple software tools and data sources in their day-to-day work and have been guided in their choices by a number of cataloguing initiatives. The ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry (bio.tools) aims to provide a central information point, independent...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28402416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix022 |
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author | Doppelt-Azeroual, Olivia Mareuil, Fabien Deveaud, Eric Kalaš, Matúš Soranzo, Nicola van den Beek, Marius Grüning, Björn Ison, Jon Ménager, Hervé |
author_facet | Doppelt-Azeroual, Olivia Mareuil, Fabien Deveaud, Eric Kalaš, Matúš Soranzo, Nicola van den Beek, Marius Grüning, Björn Ison, Jon Ménager, Hervé |
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description | Background: Bioinformaticians routinely use multiple software tools and data sources in their day-to-day work and have been guided in their choices by a number of cataloguing initiatives. The ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry (bio.tools) aims to provide a central information point, independent of any specific scientific scope within bioinformatics or technological implementation. Meanwhile, efforts to integrate bioinformatics software in workbench and workflow environments have accelerated to enable the design, automation, and reproducibility of bioinformatics experiments. One such popular environment is the Galaxy framework, with currently more than 80 publicly available Galaxy servers around the world. In the context of a generic registry for bioinformatics software, such as bio.tools, Galaxy instances constitute a major source of valuable content. Yet there has been, to date, no convenient mechanism to register such services en masse. Findings: We present ReGaTE (Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir), a software utility that automates the process of registering the services available in a Galaxy instance. This utility uses the BioBlend application program interface to extract service metadata from a Galaxy server, enhance the metadata with the scientific information required by bio.tools, and push it to the registry. Conclusions: ReGaTE provides a fast and convenient way to publish Galaxy services in bio.tools. By doing so, service providers may increase the visibility of their services while enriching the software discovery function that bio.tools provides for its users. The source code of ReGaTE is freely available on Github at https://github.com/C3BI-pasteur-fr/ReGaTE. |
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spelling | pubmed-55303182017-07-31 ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir Doppelt-Azeroual, Olivia Mareuil, Fabien Deveaud, Eric Kalaš, Matúš Soranzo, Nicola van den Beek, Marius Grüning, Björn Ison, Jon Ménager, Hervé Gigascience Technical Note Background: Bioinformaticians routinely use multiple software tools and data sources in their day-to-day work and have been guided in their choices by a number of cataloguing initiatives. The ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry (bio.tools) aims to provide a central information point, independent of any specific scientific scope within bioinformatics or technological implementation. Meanwhile, efforts to integrate bioinformatics software in workbench and workflow environments have accelerated to enable the design, automation, and reproducibility of bioinformatics experiments. One such popular environment is the Galaxy framework, with currently more than 80 publicly available Galaxy servers around the world. In the context of a generic registry for bioinformatics software, such as bio.tools, Galaxy instances constitute a major source of valuable content. Yet there has been, to date, no convenient mechanism to register such services en masse. Findings: We present ReGaTE (Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir), a software utility that automates the process of registering the services available in a Galaxy instance. This utility uses the BioBlend application program interface to extract service metadata from a Galaxy server, enhance the metadata with the scientific information required by bio.tools, and push it to the registry. Conclusions: ReGaTE provides a fast and convenient way to publish Galaxy services in bio.tools. By doing so, service providers may increase the visibility of their services while enriching the software discovery function that bio.tools provides for its users. The source code of ReGaTE is freely available on Github at https://github.com/C3BI-pasteur-fr/ReGaTE. Oxford University Press 2017-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5530318/ /pubmed/28402416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix022 Text en © The Authors 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Technical Note Doppelt-Azeroual, Olivia Mareuil, Fabien Deveaud, Eric Kalaš, Matúš Soranzo, Nicola van den Beek, Marius Grüning, Björn Ison, Jon Ménager, Hervé ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir |
title | ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir |
title_full | ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir |
title_fullStr | ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir |
title_full_unstemmed | ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir |
title_short | ReGaTE: Registration of Galaxy Tools in Elixir |
title_sort | regate: registration of galaxy tools in elixir |
topic | Technical Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28402416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix022 |
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