Best Practice Sharing Galaxy Workflows

Make the workflow

Make your workflow using e.g. the workflow editor or based on a history (link to info on making workflow?)
Use tools that are available in a toolshed, preferable the main ToolShed, to ensure this make the workflow on usegalaxy.org
Test your workflow with a sample dataset, preferably small enough to finish the whole procedure within minutes

Go to the tab Workflow and click right on the workflow you want to export
Select ‘Share or Download’
In the section ‘Export’ click Download. This will download a Galaxy-workflow-name-of-your-workflow.ga file to your computer
You can also download an image as SVG, this will open a new tab (depending on the settings of your browser). Click right on the figure and save it as Galaxy-workflow-name-of-your-workflow.svg

Make a (folder in a) GitHub repository to contain all files relevant for this workflow (link how to make GitHub account ? )
Add the Galaxy-workflow-name-of-your-workflow.ga file
Create a readme.rst file (example)
Create a file ‘repository_dependencies.xml’ containing the dependencies (example). Currently this needs to be done manually. Name and Owner can be found in the ToolShed for all tools used in the workflow
Create a folder ‘test-data’ and add all input files needed for a test run
Create a folder ‘output-data’ and add output files for validation

Create an account on the ToolShed or TestToolShed
‘Create new repository’ under ‘Available actions’ on the left
Give it an appropriate name (only letters, numbers and underscores)
Select ‘unrestricted’ type
Fill in the link to the repository, synopsis, description
Select an appropriate category
Save
Upload files (button right top)
- Galaxy-workflow-name-of-your-workflow.ga
- Readme.rst
- Repository_dependencies.xml

Load the example data in a history on usegalaxy.org
- Share this history, this is the starting point
Make a copy of the history to a new one and run the workflow
- Share also this history, this is the “answer” or final point