Nov 14, 2012 Distribution & News Brief

November 14, 2012

Complete News Brief

Highlights:

NGS: Picard (beta) tools have moved from the Galaxy distribution to the Galaxy Main Tool Shed.
The Galaxy Project is now using Sphinx Python hosted at Read the Docs to document the galaxy-central and galaxy-dist code base. That's a peek on the right →
The Intergalactic Utilities Commission will soon begin reviewing repositories in the Galaxy Main Tool Shed (better repos, better tools)
Tool Shed "best practice" advice: a single tool or a suite of tools per repository?
Tophat, Tophat2, and Cuffdiff updated to accept gene annotations in GFF3 format.
Multiple enhancements to the API targeting user and history actions.
Plus updates to CloudLaunch, new Security Fixes, and several usability enhancements for Datasets, Datatypes, Tools, and Tool Shed functions.

new:     $ hg clone http://www.bx.psu.edu/hg/galaxy galaxy-dist
upgrade: $ hg pull -u -r 5dcbbdfe1087

Thanks for using Galaxy!

The Galaxy Team