Notes from Meeting at Galaxy Community Conference 2019

Some rough notes from our brief meeting at the Galaxy Community Conference 2019:

We did not make any significant progress over the last year, so we agreed to set some small goals to get things rolling.

• choose a few simple example workflows using training network materials as a starting point
• construct a website to allow people to find workflows based on the analysis they are looking for without having to know that they want to use galaxy.

New features that would make these most useful:

• easy installation of workflow via UI. (Install to my galaxy)
• select list for reference genomes, etc. as workflow parameters

Workflow testing is a bit hard... could we do this in the workflow editor instead of the command line?

Distinction between Test data vs. Example analysis data

• test data should be quick to execute, analysis data should be more realistic
• these should be separated

Maybe there should be a data hackathon project to test workflows using version 2 files?

Criteria for good workflow candidates:

• should be solving a big scientific need
• tools maintained and state of are
• Tools with no license restriction
• should have systematic periodic review
• should be runnable on
  • usegalaxy.org
  • usegalaxy.eu
• maybe try to find application that are not well served yet?
• try to use subworkflows where relevant to enable reuse
• how to handle reference data?
• idc connection - how to coordinate reference data - using cvmfs