[BioC] Announcement: Software developer training for Galaxy, Tuesday, October 23 4:00pm - 6:00pm, San Diego (just before the ASHG meeting)

[Ross Lazarus]

The Galaxy and Rgenetics projects are offering a free 2 hour tutorial for software 
developers specifically for genomics software developers developers planning on attending 
this year’s American Society of Human Genetics meeting in San Diego and interested in ways 
of making their work easily accessed by relatively command line averse biologists in a web 
based workbench environment.

See http://ashg2007.g2.bx.psu.edu/ for details and signup.

Galaxy http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/ is an open-source, genomic workbench framework 
supporting reproducible research (eg see the screencast at 
http://screencast.g2.bx.psu.edu/MainUseExample.mov ), and supporting low-impedence 
integration with major data and annotation sources including BioMart and UCSC. A local mac 
or linux private server installation takes literally a couple of minutes (see 
http://g2.trac.bx.psu.edu/wiki/HowToInstall) and the Galaxy tool menu is easily extended – 
any command line executable that takes command line parameters (including R scripts – or 
Java or even Cobol…anything runnable on the target machine) can be “wrapped” into a Galaxy 
tool by providing a simple XML interface specification (see the screencast at 
http://g2.trac.bx.psu.edu/wiki/AddToolTutorial)


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